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| USA | 41 |
| Italy | 19 |
| Germany | 17 |
| Chile | 11 |
| France | 9 |
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MAVI - Museo de Artes Visuales, Chile |
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15.11.1911 Born in Santiago de Chile, RM (CL)
Roberto Matta studied architecture at the Universidad Catolica in Santiago. In 1933 Matta traveled to Paris and worked for two years as a draftsman in the Paris studio of famed architect Le Corbusier. While visiting his aunt in Madrid, he met Federico Garcia Lorca and Pablo Neruda. Neruda introduced Matta to Salvador Dali and Andre Breton. Impressed by Matta's drawings, Breton invited him to join the Surrealist group in 1937. Influenced by his association with the Surrealists and by Marcel Duchamp's theories of movement and process, Matta began to explore the realm of the subconscious and to develop an imagery of cosmic creation and destruction.
His early works, the Psychological Morphologies and the Inscape series, were organic in style and content. By 1939 the war in Europe drove Matta to exile in New York, where he was an important influence on the young New York School artists, especially in his use of automatist techniques.
In 1940 he held his first solo exhibition at the Julien Levy Gallery in New York City. A 1941 trip to Mexico with his wife and his friend Robert Motherwell intensified his interest in the pre-Columbian heritage of Latin America. In 1942 Matta was included in the New York exhibitions Artists in Exile at the Pierre Matisse Gallery and The First Papers of Surrealism at the Whitelaw-Reid Mansion. In the mid-1940s his early abstractions gave way to paintings in which mechanical and insect-like shapes float and collide in a cosmic space charged with dynamic tension. In 1948, Matta returned to Europe and broke with the Surrealist movement. He settled in Paris in 1954. During the 1960s and 1970s Matta traveled to Cuba, South America, Egypt, and Africa. Although known primarily as a painter, Matta has also explored the media of sculpture, ceramics, and tapestry.
Matta's one person exhibitions include those at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Nationalgalerie, Berlin, the Kestner-Gesellschaft, Hanover, the Hayward Gallery, London, Musee National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, Museo de Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile, and. Museo Yokohama, Japan. His work has been included in The Latin-American Collection of The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1943; The Emergent Decade, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1965; Art of Latin America since Independence, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, 1966; Art in Latin America: The Modern Era, 1820-1980, Hayward Gallery, London, 1989; and Crosscurrents of Modernism: Four Latin American Pioneers Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, DC, 1992. A Matta retrospective was presented at the Centro Cultural Caixa in Barcelona and the Museo Nacional de Arte Reina Sofia in Madrid in 1999.
Awards 1995 Awarded the Praemium Imperiale prize for painting.
23.11.2002 Died in Civitavecchia, RM (IT)
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Public exhibitions 141
until 31.1.2010
until 15.12.
until 22.11.
Solo shows 19
2008
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| Descubritorio Matta - MAVI - Museo de Artes Visuales, Santiago |
2007
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| Matta - Galerie Claude Bernard, Paris |
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| Gravures - Roberto Matta - Galerie Renée Ziegler, Zurich |
2004
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| Roberto Matta - Art Museum of the Americas, Washington, DC |
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| Matta - Début d'un nouveau monde - Malingue, Paris |
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| Matta: Making the Invisible Visible - McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA |
2003
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| Matta 1938 - 1971. La grande avventura dell'uomo che amava il proibito - Galleria de' Foscherari, Bologna |
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| Exposición de Roberto Matta - Colección Santa Cruz - Yaconi - MAVI - Museo de Artes Visuales, Santiago |
2002
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| Matta in America: Paintings and Drawings of the 1940s - Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago - MCA Chicago, Chicago, IL |
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| Roberto Matta - Le Grand Burundun - Mamco - musée d´art moderne et contemporain, Geneva |
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| Don Qui 1605 - 1985 - Haim Chanin Fine Art, New York City, NY |
1997
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| Matta: Surrealism and Beyond - Haggerty Museum of Art, Milwaukee, WI |
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| Roberto Matta - Paintings & Drawings: 1937 - 1959 - Latin American Masters, Beverly Hills, CA |
1991
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| Amusatevi - Museo Barjola, Gijón |
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| Matta - Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Munich |
1986
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| Matta: painting and sculpture - MMCA Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki |
1985
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| Matta - Centre Pompidou - Musée National d´Art Moderne, Paris |
1975
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| Roberto Matta : Les Oh! Tomobiles - Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth |
1957
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| Matta - MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY |
Group shows 119
2009
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| Riccardo Licata e gli amici di Venezia e Parig - Palazzo Della Promotrice Delle Belle Arti, Turin |
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| Constellations: Paintings from the MCA Collection - Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago - MCA Chicago, Chicago, IL |
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| North Looks South: Building the Latin American Art Collection - MFAH - Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, TX |
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| Un mondo visivo nuovo. Origine, Balla, Kandinsky e le astrazioni degli anni ‘50 - Lu.C.C.A - Lucca Center of Contemporary Art, Lucca |
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| DenudArti - Galleria Marino, Rome |
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| DenudArti - Galleria Marino, Rome |
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| EXPLORANDO EL SUR - El universalismo constructivo y otras tendencias en América Latina - Museo Extremeño e Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporáneo MEIAC, Badajoz |
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| Latitudes: Mestres Latino-americanos na Coleção FEMSA - Instituto Tomie Ohtake, São Paulo |
2008
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| Modernism and the Wichner Collection - Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA |
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| Latitudes: maestros latinoamericanos en la colección FEMSA - Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes - MNBA, Buenos Aires |
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| Invisible Rays: The Surrealism Legacy - The Rose Art Museum, Waltham, MA |
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| Facets - Art Museum of the Americas, Washington, DC |
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| Estetika. Forma & Segno. Da Renoir a de Chirico - Villa Ponti Fondazione Art Museo, Arona (NO) |
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| Sammlung Marzona - Bielefelder Kunstverein, Bielefeld |
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| 66 pieces of art on the Wall - Haim Chanin Fine Art, New York City, NY |
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| Traces du Sacré - Centre Pompidou - Musée National d´Art Moderne, Paris |
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| Action Painting - Foundation Beyeler, Riehen |
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| The Space of Man - Fondazione Merz, Turin |
2007
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| Latin American Art in the Berardo Collection, SMAM, Sintra - Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna, Sintra |
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| Peggy Guggenheim E L’immaginario Surreale - Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice |
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| Homenaje a Picasso - MNBA - Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes Santiago Chile, Santiago |
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| Tercera Donación - CDAN - Centro de Arte y Naturaleza - Fundación Beulas, Huesca |
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| Guggenheim Collection: 1940s to Now - NGV National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, VIC |
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| Automatic - Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Roberto Matta, Gonzalo Cienfuegos - City Gallery of Bratislava / Galéria mesta Bratislavy, Bratislava |
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| Twin Bill - Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Oklahoma City, OK |
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| La colección Pierre y Maria-Gaetana Matisse en The Metropolitan Museum of Art , New York - Museo Picasso Málaga, Málaga |
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| L'aura della serialità - CAMeC - Centro de Arte Moderna e Contemporanea della Spezia, La Spezia |
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| International & Australian Works on Paper - Josef Lebovic Gallery, Sydney, NSW |
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| ... stelle nei sessi di lumache ... - Factory-Art - Trieste, Trieste |
2006
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| Peter Weiss und die Avantgarde - Fluchtpunkt Paris - Kunstmuseum Bochum, Bochum |
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| City Blues, fragments d'une - Espace arts plastiques, Vénissieux |
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| FACING 1200° C. Glasskulpturen der Berengo Collection, Venezia - Museum Moderner Kunst Kärnten, Klagenfurt |
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| Colección grabado MAC - talleres matrices y nuevas orientaciones - MAC Museo de Arte Contemporáneo. Universidad de Chile, Santiago |
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| Masters of Latin America - From the Joan and Milton Bagley Collection - Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, FL |
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| Couples - Galerie Renée Ziegler, Zurich |
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| Transmission - The Art of Matta and Gordon Matta-Clark - San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA |
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| Lúdica - Colección Santa Cruz - Yaconi - MAVI - Museo de Artes Visuales, Santiago |
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| Mirada múltiple - Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao, Bilbao |
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| Arte Contemporáneo Chileno - Desde el Otro Sitio/Lugar - MAC Museo de Arte Contemporáneo. Universidad de Chile, Santiago |
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| Frente a frente - Galeria Fernando Pradilla, Madrid |
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| Surrealist Works on Paper - Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA |
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| Inner Worlds Outside - Whitechapel Art Gallery, London (England) |
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| Société Anonyme - Modernism in America - UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA |
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| Geometry and Gesture - Art Museum of the Americas, Washington, DC |
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| Incisiones - Colección Santa Cruz – Yaconi - MAVI - Museo de Artes Visuales, Santiago |
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| Exil und Moderne – H.W. Janson und die Sammlung der Washington University in St. Louis - Museum für Neue Kunst, Freiburg |
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| Degas to Picasso - Modern Masters - MFA - Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, MA |
2005
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| Matta, Mattioli e gli altri - Galleria Centro Steccata, Parma |
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| L'arte del lavoro, il lavoro dell'arte - CAMeC - Centro de Arte Moderna e Contemporanea della Spezia, La Spezia |
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| The Fluidity of Time - Selections from the MCA Collection - Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago - MCA Chicago, Chicago, IL |
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| Exil und Moderne - Kunsthalle St. Annen Lübeck, Lübeck |
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| Colección Femsa - una mirada continental - Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey MARCO, Monterrey, NL |
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| Arte Del Siglo XX - Colección Internacional Del Museo Rufino Tamayo, México - Fundación PROA, Buenos Aires |
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| Acquisitions and donations to the permanent collection 2003 - 2004 - Molaa Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, CA |
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| Bologna contemporanea - Galleria d´Arte Moderna di Bologna - GAM, Bologna |
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| EXIL UND MODERNE - Meisterwerke der klassischen Avantgarde aus der Sammlung der Washington University, St. Louis - Angermuseum Erfurt, Erfurt |
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| Invisible Revealed: Surrealist Drawings from the Drukier Collection - Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, KS |
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| Beyond Mexico: Work by 20th Century Latin American Artists.... - Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ |
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| "Frente a Frente" 10 Artistas Portugueses - 10 Artistas Estrangeiros - Galeria 111 - Lisboa, Lisbon |
2004
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| Diálogos: Arte Latinoamericano del siglo XIX y XX - Colección Cisneros de Venezu - MNBA - Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes Santiago Chile, Santiago |
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| Exil und Moderne – H.W. Janson und die Sammlung der Washington University in St. Louis - Opelvillen, Rüsselsheim |
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| Modern in Europe - Featuring Selections from the Collection of Gladys and Sam Ru - Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA |
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| Artists of the Americas - Art Museum of the Americas, Washington, DC |
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| La main qui dessinait toute seule. (dessins) - Galerie Magda Danysz, Paris |
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| Arte y utopía - La acción restringida - Museu d´Art Contemporani de Barcelona - MACBA, Barcelona |
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| Love / Hate. From Magritte to Cattelan. - Villa Manin. Centro d'arte contemporanea, Codroipo (UD) |
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| AVANGUARDIE STORICHE E ASTRAZIONE - Importanti opere su carta del XX secolo - Galleria Torbandena, Trieste |
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| MoMA at El Museo. Latin American and Caribbean Art from the Collection of the Mu - El Museo del Barrio, New York City, NY |
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| Small-Scale Sculpture - Hackett Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
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| Masterworks by Contemporary Printmakers, Part II - Irvine Contemporary, Washington, DC |
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| Es Baluard any zero - Es Baluard, Palma de Mallorca |
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| The Invisible Revealed - The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Poughkeepsie, NY |
2003
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| Herbst- / Winterkollektion 2003 - 'Kunterbunte Arbeiten' - Galerie Ariadne - Thomas Netusil Kunsthandel, Vienna |
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| Fuochi - Grossetti Arte Contemporanea, Milan |
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| Geografie del mistero. Metafisica, dada, surrealismo - Il Narciso Galleria d´arte contemporanea, Rome |
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| Linking Collection And Community - MAM - Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL |
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| 4. Bienal do Mercosul - Bienal do Mercosul, Porto Alegre |
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| Group Show: Gallery Artists & Pre-Columbian Ceramics - Latin American Masters, Beverly Hills, CA |
2002
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| French Collection - Mamco - musée d´art moderne et contemporain, Geneva |
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| Desde el cuerpo - Colección Santa Cruz - Yaconi - MAVI - Museo de Artes Visuales, Santiago |
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| Jokes - Mamco - musée d´art moderne et contemporain, Geneva |
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| La Révolution surréaliste - Centre Pompidou - Musée National d´Art Moderne, Paris |
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| Behind the Surrealist Curtain: Sex, Sensuality and Silence - Ubu Gallery, New York City, NY |
2001
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| Espace des Amériques - Caribbean Contemporary Arts (CCA), Port of Spain |
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| Rétroviseur (Loués soient les grands hommes !) - Mamco - musée d´art moderne et contemporain, Geneva |
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| De Artaud ... à Twombly - Centre Pompidou - Musée National d´Art Moderne, Paris |
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| Art of the Unconscious - The RISD Museum - University of Rhode Island, Providence, RI |
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| Grabados Chilenos De La Colección Permanente Del MAC - MAC Museo de Arte Contemporáneo. Universidad de Chile, Santiago |
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| Arte internazionale a Prato - Open Art, sguardi sul presente - Galleria Open Art, Prato |
2000
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| Une Ville-Une Collection - Centre de la Gravure et de l'Image imprimée, La Louvière |
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| Some Summer Surrealists - The Mayor Gallery, London (England) |
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| Gegen Krieg und Gewalt - Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz, Linz |
1999
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| Selección de Grabado, Colección Permanente - MAC Museo de Arte Contemporáneo. Universidad de Chile, Santiago |
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| La raccolta Spajani - GAMeC - Galleria d´Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Bergamo, Bergamo |
1998
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| Flags of Tolerance - Contemporary Art Center Vilnius (CAC), Vilnius |
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| Drawing in Latin America - MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY |
1997
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| 1. Bienal do Mercosul - Bienal do Mercosul, Porto Alegre |
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| Etchings of the Twentieth Century - Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
1996
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| Grabado Francés - MADC Museo de Arte y Diseño Contemporáneo, San José |
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| Colección Costantini - Museo Nacional de Artes Visuales, Montevideo |
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| Contamporary Art from Chile - CSW Centrum Sztuki Wspolczesnej / Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw |
1995
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| Exposition Internationale du Surréalisme - Ubu Gallery, New York City, NY |
1994
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| Hantises - Galerie Guy Bärtschi, Geneva |
1992
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| Adam & Eve - Museum of Modern Art Saitama, Saitama |
1990
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| An Overview of Drawings - David Nolan Gallery, New York City, NY |
1985
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| XIII BIENNALE DE PARIS - Biennale de Paris, Paris |
1977
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| documenta 6 - Documenta, Kassel |
1974
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| Alternativen Malerei um 1945 – 50 - Kunstverein in Hamburg, Hamburg |
1969
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| Malerei des Surrealismus - Kunstverein in Hamburg, Hamburg |
1968
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| Sammlung 1968 Karl Ströher - Kunstverein in Hamburg, Hamburg |
1967
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| Vom Bauhaus bis zur Gegenwart - Kunstverein in Hamburg, Hamburg |
1964
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| documenta 3 - Documenta, Kassel |
1959
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| documenta 2 - Documenta, Kassel |
1958
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| Personal Contacts: A Decade of Contemporary Drawings, 1948–1958 - Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX |
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| The Disquieting Muse: Surrealism - Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX |
| Dealer Directory 63 |
Austria
| | Primo Artista Galerie und Kunsthandels GmbH, Guntramsdorf
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Chile
| | Galeria Ana Maria Stagno - Marlborough Gallery Chile, Santiago
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Colombia
| | Luis Perez Galeria, Santafé de Bogota
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France
| | Galerie Claude Bernard, Paris
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| | Galerie Thessa Herold, Paris
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| | Galerie Hopkins-Custot, Paris
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| | Galerie Catherine Putman, Paris
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| | Galerie Patrice Trigano, Paris
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Germany
| | Galerie Berndt Kunsthandels GmbH, Cologne
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Greece
Italy
| | Galleria Soave, Alessandria
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| | Galleria de' Foscherari, Bologna
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| | Galleria d'Arte Maggiore, Bologna
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| | Galleria L'Incontro, Chiari (Bs)
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| | Tornabuoni Arte, Florence
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| | Galleria Guastalla Centro Arte, Livorno
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| | Gabrius Printstore, Milan
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| | Galleria San Carlo, Milan
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| | Galleria Centro Steccata, Parma
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| | Galleria Biasutti & Biasutti Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Turin
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| | Contini Galleria d´Arte, Venice
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| | Stamperia d'Arte di Berardinelli, Verona
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Korea (Republic)
Mexico
| | Aqua Gallery, Guadalajara
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Monaco
| | GAM Galerie d´Art, Monaco
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Netherlands
| | Frans Jacobs Fine Art, Amsterdam
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Spain
| | Luis Burgos Arte del siglo XX., Madrid
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| | Galerìa Guillermo de Osma, Madrid
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Switzerland
United Kingdom
| | THE ANDIPA GALLERY, London (England)
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| | Scolar Fine Art, London (England)
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Uruguay
USA
| | Opera Gallery, Bal Harbour, FL
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| | Latin American Masters, Beverly Hills, CA
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| | Aldo Castillo Gallery, Chicago, IL
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| | ArtSpace - Virginia Miller Galleries, Coral Gables (Miami), FL
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| | New River Fine Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL
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| | Tasende Gallery - La Jolla, La Jolla, CA
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| | Acquavella Galleries, Inc., New York City, NY
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| | Timothy Baum, New York City, NY
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| | James Goodman Gallery, New York City, NY
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| | Richard Gray Gallery - New York, New York City, NY
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| | Mary-Anne Martin Fine Art, New York City, NY
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| | Opera Gallery, New York City, NY
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| | Walker Fine Art, New York City, NY
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| | Gallery Four Forty Four, San Francisco, CA
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| | IKON Ltd, Santa Monica, CA
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| | Riva Yares Gallery - Scottsdale, Scottsdale, AZ
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| | Tasende Gallery - West Hollywood, West Hollywood, CA
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Venezuela
| | Galeria Acquavella, Caracas
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Argentina
| | MALBA Colección Costantini - Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires
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Belgium
| | Musée d'Ixelles - Museum van Elsene, Brussels
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Brazil
| | mam - Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, São Paulo
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| | Museu de Arte Contemporânea da Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo
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Canada
| | Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, ON
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Chile
| | MAC Museo de Arte Contemporáneo. Universidad de Chile, Santiago
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| | MAVI - Museo de Artes Visuales, Santiago
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| | MNBA - Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes Santiago Chile, Santiago
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Colombia
| | Museo Botero, Santafé de Bogota
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| | Museo de Arte del Banco de la República - Biblioteca Luis Ángel Arango, Santafé de Bogota
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France
| | Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain (MAMCS), Strasbourg
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| | Espace arts plastiques, Vénissieux
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| | Musée d'art moderne Lille métropole, Villeneuve d'Ascq
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Germany
| | Kunsthalle Bremen, Bremen
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| | Museum Folkwang Essen, Essen
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| | Städtisches Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach
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Israel
| | Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa
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| | Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv
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Italy
| | GAMeC - Galleria d´Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Bergamo, Bergamo
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| | Galleria d´Arte Moderna di Bologna - GAM, Bologna
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Japan
| | Iwaki City Art Museum, Iwaki
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Mexico
| | Museo Jose Luis Cuevas, Mexico City
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| | Museo Tamayo, Mexico City
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Netherlands
Norway
| | Henie Onstad Art Centre, Høvikodden
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| | Tale Art Museum, Lillestrøm
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Poland
| | Muzeum Sztuki w Lodz, Lodz
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South Africa
| | Unisa Art Gallery, Pretoria
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Spain
| | Museu d´Art Contemporani de Barcelona - MACBA, Barcelona
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| | Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno (CAAM), Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
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| | Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid
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United Kingdom
| | Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire (England)
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| | Tate Britain, London (England)
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USA
| | The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
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| | MFA - Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, MA
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| | The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
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| | Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago - MCA Chicago, Chicago, IL
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| | The Menil Collection, Houston, TX
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| | Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland, FL
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| | Castellani Art Museum, Lewiston, NY
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| | CIFO - Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, Miami, FL
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| | Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
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| | Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City, NY
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| | MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY
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| | Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, CA
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| | The RISD Museum - University of Rhode Island, Providence, RI
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| | Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY
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| | San Francisco Museum of Modern Art - SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA
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| | Art Museum of the Americas, Washington, DC
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