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Gordon's new exhibition
Window Blow-out
A 1976 show at the Institute of Architecture and Urban Studies in New York featured the work of lots of aspiring young architects, whose designs offered idealized visions of space and the cityscape. This was, of course, the general goal of architecture as a discipline, but Matta-Clark, with his sense for realism, contributed images of vandalized project buildings in the Bronx with their windows blown out. Sitting next to designs by Peter Eisenman and Michael Graves, Window Blow-out represented a truth that was largely avoided in conceptual architecture. This juxtaposition was pushed further when Matta-Clark broke into the gallery and shot out several of the windows with an air rifle.
As part of the Paris Biennale of 1975, Matta-Clark created Conical Intersect. In this project, he used a pair of abandoned 17th-century buildings that were slated for demolition, creating what appears to be a massive drill hole that charges right through the structures. Essentially anyone walking past could look through the building and up unto it to see the various layers of its structure.
a part of the splitting interior
Splitting, 1974 Gordon Matta-Clark (American, 1943–1978) Chromogenic prints mounted on board
Open house
In May 1972, Matta-Clark installed an industrial waste container between 98 and 112 Greene Street in New York's SoHo district. He collected discarded doors and pieces of timber and divided the interior into three openings. This piece records an opening-day site performance by the artist, Tina Girouard, Keith Sonnier, and other friends.
A new 30' documentary, a exceptional source about one of XXth century most influencial artists. This film is based upon never unveiled reflections of Gordon about his work, recorded by Cherica while filming him in 1977.
This video is a retrospective look at Gordon Matta-Clark and his work through the eyes of Jane Crawford, his widow. It took place at the Whitney Museum exhibit of his work in 2007. It was produced by Howard Silver for Bloomberg MUSE. DP was Scott Sinkler, Editor, Seth Karten.
Food is a short film directed by aritst/photographer Robert Frank about Gordon Matta-Clark and Carol Goodden's conceptual restaurant. Founded in 1972 in the SoHo neighborhood of New York City, FOOD brought together many factors of the local community, artists and otherwise, becoming a space for dialogue and conversation as well as a living piece in it of itself.
Gordon with camera
"AN ARK KIT PUNCTURE, ANARCHY TORTURE, AN ARCTIC LECTURE, AN ORCHID TEXTURE, AN ART COLLECTOR..."
G.M.T.
A kind of biography
Gordon Matta Clark studied architecture at Cornell University, but did not practice as a conventional architect; he worked on what he referred to as “Anarchitecture.” At the time of Matta-Clark's tenure there, Cornell's architecture program was guided in part by Colin Rowe, a preeminent architectural theorist of modernism. His vision of modernism later influenced much of Matta-Clark's own work in its relation to modernist practice and theory. He also spent a year studying French literature at the Sorbonne in Paris and was in Paris during the student strikes of May 1968. It was in Paris that he became aware of the French deconstructionist philosophers and Guy Debord and the Situationists. These cultural and political radicals developed the concept of détournement, or "the reuse of pre-existing artistic elements in a new ensemble." Such concepts would later inform his work. He is most famous for works that radically altered existing structures. His "building cuts" (in which, for example, a house is cut in half vertically) alter the perception of the building and its surrounding environment.
Matta-Clark used a number of media to document his work, including film, video, and photography. His work includes performance and recycling pieces, space and texture works, and his "building cuts."
Matta-Clark also used puns and other wordgames as a way to re-conceptualize preconditioned roles and relationships (of everything, from people to architecture). He demonstrates that the theory of entropy applies to language as well as to the physical world, and that language is not a neutral tool but a carrier for society's values and a vehicle for ideology.