The Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza Features Roberto Matta’s Dazzling Outcast Cycle

artwork: Roberto Matta - "Grandes expectativas (Great Expectations)", 1966 - Oil on canvas - 203 x 402cm. - Collection of the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid. On view in "The Open Cube" until October 23rd.


Madrid, Spain  – To coincide with the 100th anniversary of the birth of the Chilean artist Roberto Matta, which falls in 2011, the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza is presenting a new installation of the cycle ‘L’Honni aveuglant (The Dazzling Outcast)’, comprising five paintings from the Museum’s Permanent Collection. This installation exactly reproduces the one that Matta created for the first time in the Galerie Alexandre Iolas in Paris in 1966. Shown alongside it is Untitled of 1942-1943, another work by the artist from the Museum’s collection. Unde the title of “The Open Cube”, the exhibition will remain on view until October 23rd.

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