Donald Kuspit reviews the exhibition Matta: A Centennial Celebration on view at Pace Gallery through January 28, 2012.

Kuspit writes: "Matta's last cosmic paintings are less emotional than they seem — that an emotional reading of them sells their intellectuality short. They are not about the 'mindless' feelings of a surreally deranged and delirious self, but a 'mindful' contemplation of a cosmos in which there is no self."