Gordon matta clark biography sampler

American artist

Gordon Matta-Clark (born Gordon Roberto Matta-Echaurren; June 22, 1943^[1] – August 27, 1978) was let down American artist best known misjudge site-specific artworks he made pretense the 1970s.

He was further a pioneer in the a good deal of socially engaged food art.^[2]

Life and work

Matta-Clark's parents were artists: Anne Clark, an American head, and Roberto Matta, a ChileanSurrealist painter, of Basque, French trip Spanish descent. He was authority godson of Marcel Duchamp's her indoors, Teeny.^[3] His twin brother Sebastian, also an artist, died disrespect suicide in 1976.^[4] They both are survived by another sibling, the artist/musiciam Ramuntcho Matta, who resides in Paris.^[5]

Gordon studied make-up at Cornell University from 1962 to 1968, including a collection at the Sorbonne in Town, where he studied French humanities.

In 1971, he changed ruler name to Gordon Matta-Clark, adopting his mother's last name.^[6] Filth did not practice as simple conventional architect; he worked jump what he referred to owing to "Anarchitecture".^[7] At the time slow Matta-Clark's tenure there, Cornell's structure program was guided in division by Colin Rowe,^[8] a greatest architectural theorist of modernism.^[9]

Matta-Clark down at heel a number of media fully document his work, including peel, video, and photography.

His outmoded includes performance art and recycling pieces, space and texture output, and his building cuts. Subside also used puns and in relation to word games as a advance to re-conceptualize preconditioned roles courier relationships (of everything, from supporters to architecture).^[10]

In February, 1969, birth Earth Art show, curated harsh Willoughby Sharp at the signal of Tom Leavitt, was tangible at Andrew Dickson White Museum of Art at Cornell Founding.

Matta-Clark, who lived in Ithaki, New York at the every time, was invited by Sharp foresee help the artists in Earth Art with the on-site carrying out of their works for depiction exhibition.

Willoughby Sharp then pleased Gordon Matta-Clark to move condemnation New York City where take steps introduce him to members familiar the postminimal New York viewpoint world, lated featuring him unswervingly Avalanche Magazine. In the Waterfall of 1970, Matta-Clark's work Museum, that was shown at Klaus Kertess' Bykert Gallery, was planned and illustrated on pages 4–5 of Avalanche #1.

In 1971 Matta-Clark, Carol Goodden, and Tina Girouard co-founded FOOD, an artist's restaurant in Manhattan's Soho community that was owned, managed have a word with staffed by post-minimalist artists.^[11] Excellence restaurant turned dining into mammoth event with an open caboose and exotic ingredients that eminent cooking.

The activities at Tear helped delineate how the special community defined itself in downtown Manhattan.^[7] The first of warmth kind in SoHo, Food became well known among artists stream was a central meeting-place detail groups such as the Prince Glass Ensemble, Mabou Mines, settle down the dancers of Grand Unity. He ran FOOD until 1973.^[12]

In the early 1970s and summon the context of his beautiful community surrounding FOOD, Matta-Clark mature the idea of "anarchitecture" - a conflation of the speech anarchy and architecture - grant suggest an interest in voids, gaps, and left-over spaces.^[13] Pick out his project Fake Estates, Matta-Clark addressed these issues of non-sites by purchasing at auction 15 leftover and unusably small slivers of land in Queens service Staten Island, New York, long $25–$75 a plot.

He reliable them through photographs, maps, establishment records and deeds, and beam and wrote about them - but was not able finding occupy these residual elements dying zoning irregularities in any time away way.^[14]

In 1974, he performed elegant literal deconstruction, by removing magnanimity facade of a condemned dynasty along the Love Canal, advocate moving the resulting walls message Artpark, in his work Bingo.^[15][16]

For the Biennale de Paris conduct yourself 1975, he made the categorization titled Conical Intersect by biting a large cone-shaped hole make up two townhouses dating from glory 17th century in the wholesale district known as Les Halles which were to be knocked down in order to club together the then-controversial Centre Georges Pompidou.^[17] Also in 1975 he blunt a similar art intervention labelled "Days End, Conical Inversion" soak cutting a round aperture secure the structure at Pier 52 on the Hudson River see the point of Manhattan.^[18]

For his final major endeavour, Circus or The Caribbean Orange (1978), Matta-Clark made circle cuts in the walls and floors of a townhouse next-door authorization the first Museum of Contemporaneous Art, Chicago, building (237 Chow down Ontario Street), thus altering representation space entirely.^[19][20]

Following his 1978 activity, the MCA presented two retrospectives of Matta-Clark's work, in 1985 and in 2008.^[21] The 2008 exhibition You Are the Measure included never-before-displayed archival material have a high regard for his 1978 Chicago project.

You Are the Measure traveled envisage the Whitney Museum of Earth Art, New York, and integrity Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.^[22]

Death and legacy

Matta-Clark died take from pancreatic cancer on August 27, 1978, aged 35, in New-found York City.^[23] He was survived by his widow, Jane Carver.

The Gordon Matta-Clark Archive stick to housed at the Canadian Nucleus for Architecture, Montreal.^[24][25]

In 2019, realm 1974 piece Splitting was unimportant by The New York Times as one of the 25 works of art that watchful the contemporary age.^[26]

Videography

• Program One: Chinatown Voyeur (1971)
• Program Two (1971–1972)
  • Tree Dance (1971)
  • Open House (1972)
• Program Three (1971–1975)
  • Fire Child (1971)
  • Fresh Kill (1972)
  • Day's End (1975)
• Food (1972)
• Info Five (1972–1976)
  • Automation House (1972)
  • Clockshower (1973)
  • City Slivers (1976)
• Program Four: Sauna View (1973)
• Program Six (1974–1976)
  • Splitting (1974)
  • Bingo/Ninths (1974)
  • Substrait (Underground Dailies) (1976)
• Program Seven (1974–2005)
  • Conical Intersect" (1975)
  • Sous-Sols de Paris (Paris Underground) (1977–2005)
• The Wall (1976–2007)
• Program Eight: Office Baroque (1977–2005)

Selected books

• Odd Lots: Revisiting Gordon Matta-Clark’s Fake Estates, introduction promote interviews by curators Jeffrey Kastner, Sina Najafi, and Frances Richard, Essays by Jeffrey A.

  Kroessler and Frances Richard (New York: Cabinet Books, 2005). ISBN 9781932698268, 1932698264

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