Untitled

In this work, Matta expands his interest in form and spatial relationships with a composition based on a geodesic dome structure. When cut out and assembled (as per instructions illustrated on a poster for an exhibition by American sculptor and architect Bernard Kirschenbaum at the Park Place Gallery in New York in 1967), Matta’s dome evokes both macrocosmic and microcosmic universes. The few extant proofs of this rare, unpublished print were made at the Atelier Georges Visat in Paris in 1968, a time when Matta and many of his fellow artists were occupied with the political upheaval surrounding the student movement.