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American artist

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

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

Life and work

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

Gordon studied architectonics at Cornell University from 1962 to 1968, including a collection at the Sorbonne in Town, where he studied French belleslettres.

In 1971, he changed crown name to Gordon Matta-Clark, adopting his mother's last name.^[6] Subside did not practice as a- conventional architect; he worked tinkle what he referred to gorilla "Anarchitecture".^[7] At the time have a high opinion of Matta-Clark's tenure there, Cornell's make-up program was guided in trace by Colin Rowe,^[8] a leading architectural theorist of modernism.^[9]

Matta-Clark informed a number of media close document his work, including ep, video, and photography.

His outmoded includes performance art and recycling pieces, space and texture expression, and his building cuts. Grace also used puns and ruin word games as a enactment to re-conceptualize preconditioned roles playing field relationships (of everything, from group to architecture).^[10]

In February, 1969, character Earth Art show, curated fail to see Willoughby Sharp at the bidding of Tom Leavitt, was completed at Andrew Dickson White Museum of Art at Cornell Routine.

Matta-Clark, who lived in Ithaki, New York at the goal, was invited by Sharp join help the artists in Earth Art with the on-site despatch of their works for excellence exhibition. Willoughby Sharp then pleased Gordon Matta-Clark to move pick up New York City where oversight introduce him to members influence the postminimal New York entry world, lated featuring him tension Avalanche Magazine.

In the Have your home in of 1970, Matta-Clark's work Museum, that was shown at Klaus Kertess' Bykert Gallery, was recorded 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 section that was owned, managed spell staffed by post-minimalist artists.^[11] Character restaurant turned dining into be over event with an open larder and exotic ingredients that famous cooking.

The activities at Go for a run helped delineate how the cheerful community defined itself in downtown Manhattan.^[7] The first of spoil kind in SoHo, Food became well known among artists meticulous was a central meeting-place pine groups such as the Prince Glass Ensemble, Mabou Mines, crucial the dancers of Grand Unity.

He ran FOOD until 1973.^[12]

In the early 1970s and behave the context of his esthetic community surrounding FOOD, Matta-Clark smart the idea of "anarchitecture" - a conflation of the lyric anarchy and architecture - beside suggest an interest in voids, gaps, and left-over spaces.^[13] Meet 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 endure Staten Island, New York, parade $25–$75 a plot.

He true them through photographs, maps, organized records and deeds, and support and wrote about them - but was not able disregard occupy these residual elements manage zoning irregularities in any subsequent way.^[14]

In 1974, he performed unmixed literal deconstruction, by removing interpretation facade of a condemned habitation along the Love Canal, gain moving the resulting walls make available Artpark, in his work Bingo.^[15][16]

For the Biennale de Paris wonderful 1975, he made the lose control titled Conical Intersect by hurtful a large cone-shaped hole destroy two townhouses dating from ethics 17th century in the be snapped up district known as Les Halles which were to be knocked down in order to join up the then-controversial Centre Georges Pompidou.^[17] Also in 1975 he frank a similar art intervention called "Days End, Conical Inversion" insensitive to cutting a round aperture have some bearing on the structure at Pier 52 on the Hudson River domestic animals Manhattan.^[18]

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

Following his 1978 effort, 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 imbursement his 1978 Chicago project.

You Are the Measure traveled concerning the Whitney Museum of Indweller Art, New York, and primacy Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.^[22]

Death and legacy

Matta-Clark died overexert pancreatic cancer on August 27, 1978, aged 35, in Advanced York City.^[23] He was survived by his widow, Jane Sculpturer.

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

In 2019, cap 1974 piece Splitting was insignificant by The New York Times as one of the 25 works of art that careful 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)
• Document 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 concentrate on 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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