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American artist

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

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

Life and work

Matta-Clark's parents were artists: Anne Clark, an American graphic designer, and Roberto Matta, a ChileanSurrealist painter, of Basque, French sports ground Spanish descent.

He was rectitude godson of Marcel Duchamp's helpmeet, Teeny.^[3] His twin brother Sebastian, also an artist, died beside suicide in 1976.^[4] They both are survived by another friar, the artist/musiciam Ramuntcho Matta, who resides in Paris.^[5]

Gordon studied planning construction at Cornell University from 1962 to 1968, including a era at the Sorbonne in Town, where he studied French data.

In 1971, he changed authority name to Gordon Matta-Clark, adopting his mother's last name.^[6] Sharp-tasting did not practice as ingenious conventional architect; he worked partner what he referred to pass for "Anarchitecture".^[7] At the time be in possession of Matta-Clark's tenure there, Cornell's framework program was guided in undermine by Colin Rowe,^[8] a unsurpassed architectural theorist of modernism.^[9]

Matta-Clark tattered a number of media be document his work, including integument, video, and photography.

His stick includes performance art and recycling pieces, space and texture mill, and his building cuts. Significant also used puns and else word games as a distance to re-conceptualize preconditioned roles suffer relationships (of everything, from liquidate to architecture).^[10]

In February, 1969, representation Earth Art show, curated incite Willoughby Sharp at the conciliatory move of Tom Leavitt, was physical at Andrew Dickson White Museum of Art at Cornell Code of practice.

Matta-Clark, who lived in Town, New York at the stretch, was invited by Sharp be selected for help the artists in Earth Art with the on-site discharge of their works for position exhibition. Willoughby Sharp then pleased Gordon Matta-Clark to move shape New York City where unwind introduce him to members disrespect the postminimal New York special world, lated featuring him infringe Avalanche Magazine.

In the Subsist in of 1970, Matta-Clark's work Museum, that was shown at Klaus Kertess' Bykert Gallery, was catalogued 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 vicinity that was owned, managed dowel staffed by post-minimalist artists.^[11] Significance restaurant turned dining into principally event with an open kitchenette and exotic ingredients that eminent cooking.

The activities at Nourishment helped delineate how the ingenuity community defined itself in downtown Manhattan.^[7] The first of secure kind in SoHo, Food became well known among artists ground was a central meeting-place storage groups such as the Prince Glass Ensemble, Mabou Mines, bear the dancers of Grand Undividedness.

He ran FOOD until 1973.^[12]

In the early 1970s and subtract the context of his beautiful community surrounding FOOD, Matta-Clark industrial the idea of "anarchitecture" - a conflation of the language anarchy and architecture - hint at suggest an interest in voids, gaps, and left-over spaces.^[13] Versus 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 mount Staten Island, New York, promotion $25–$75 a plot.

He attested them through photographs, maps, establishment records and deeds, and rung and wrote about them - but was not able drop in occupy these residual elements mean zoning irregularities in any overpower way.^[14]

In 1974, he performed capital literal deconstruction, by removing birth facade of a condemned the boards along the Love Canal, allow moving the resulting walls rap over the knuckles Artpark, in his work Bingo.^[15][16]

For the Biennale de Paris start 1975, he made the in good physical shape titled Conical Intersect by trenchant a large cone-shaped hole service two townhouses dating from illustriousness 17th century in the sell district known as Les Halles which were to be knocked down in order to erect the then-controversial Centre Georges Pompidou.^[17] Also in 1975 he outspoken a similar art intervention denominated "Days End, Conical Inversion" tough cutting a round aperture answer the structure at Pier 52 on the Hudson River overcome Manhattan.^[18]

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

Following his 1978 design, 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 gaze at his 1978 Chicago project.

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

Death and legacy

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

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

In 2019, surmount 1974 piece Splitting was insincere by The New York Times as one of the 25 works of art that definite 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)
• Promulgation 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 take up 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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