mati klarwein

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"Although this is the style of art that Mati is best known for, it is also the hardest to classify. Even though these paintings contain many surrealist elements, and Mati was close enough to Salvador Dali to talk about "acting as each other's pimps and cultural spies", Mati would not call himself a surrealist. He's clearly a visionary artist in the broadest sense of the term: someone with a unique and distinctive vision of the world about us that expresses that vision through his art - but there are elements of the 'visionary art' genre that Mati would not align himself with.

Mati Klarwein's best known paintings are 'Annunciation', which was chosen for the cover of Santana's album 'Abraxas', and the painting used by Miles Davis for his cover 'Bitches Brew' - also reproduced for Absolut Vodka's ad campaign. His artwork has been widely shown in galleries in New York, Paris, and all over Spain. Mati's most unique installation was the Aleph Sanctuary, a cubic room comprised of 68 paintings including the 'Tree of Life' requiring a guard at its entrance in the Museum of Art in Santa Barbara, California. During his last years, he had major retrospective shows in Madrid, Barcelona, Palma and Cadiz."

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