Roberto Matta was born in Chile in 1911, but it was not local art movements that came to interest him. After graduating from university, he traveled to Europe and encountered André Breton, Salvador Dalí, and Le Corbusier. They brought him into a budding circle—the Paris Surrealists. Matta, who was already drawing stylized landscapes of places he visited, began using automatism to create. In 1938, he moved to the U.S., also moving from drawing to oils. His paintings sought to capture the unconscious and they strongly influenced the Abstract Expressionists. When Arshile Gorky committed suicide, in 1948, Matta was rejected by the Surrealists: he had been sleeping with Gorky’s wife. Matta spent the rest of his life in Paris and Rome, and died in 2002. Presented across seven different rooms, this exhibition explores all of Matta’s different worlds. —Elena Clavarino