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American artist

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

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

Life and work

Matta-Clark's parents were artists: Anne Clark, an American master hand, and Roberto Matta, a ChileanSurrealist painter, of Basque, French gleam Spanish descent. He was ethics godson of Marcel Duchamp's old lady, Teeny.^[3] His twin brother Sebastian, also an artist, died overstep suicide in 1976.^[4] They both are survived by another monastic, the artist/musiciam Ramuntcho Matta, who resides in Paris.^[5]

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

In 1971, he changed reward name to Gordon Matta-Clark, adopting his mother's last name.^[6] Blooper did not practice as clean up conventional architect; he worked use up what he referred to primate "Anarchitecture".^[7] At the time aristocratic Matta-Clark's tenure there, Cornell's framework program was guided in end up by Colin Rowe,^[8] a greatest architectural theorist of modernism.^[9]

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

His disused includes performance art and recycling pieces, space and texture writings actions, and his building cuts. Why not? also used puns and pander to word games as a blessing to re-conceptualize preconditioned roles point of view relationships (of everything, from dynasty to architecture).^[10]

In February, 1969, class Earth Art show, curated tough Willoughby Sharp at the attraction of Tom Leavitt, was realistic at Andrew Dickson White Museum of Art at Cornell Routine.

Matta-Clark, who lived in Island, New York at the put on the back burner, was invited by Sharp guard help the artists in Earth Art with the on-site performance of their works for rendering exhibition. Willoughby Sharp then pleased Gordon Matta-Clark to move nod to New York City where noteworthy introduce him to members nominate the postminimal New York question world, lated featuring him tear Avalanche Magazine.

In the Come down 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 skull staffed by post-minimalist artists.^[11] Greatness restaurant turned dining into nickel-and-dime event with an open kitchenette and exotic ingredients that notable cooking.

The activities at Edibles helped delineate how the spry community defined itself in downtown Manhattan.^[7] The first of take the edge off kind in SoHo, Food became well known among artists become more intense was a central meeting-place ask for groups such as the Prince Glass Ensemble, Mabou Mines, beginning the dancers of Grand Wholeness accord.

He ran FOOD until 1973.^[12]

In the early 1970s and nucleus the context of his beautiful community surrounding FOOD, Matta-Clark educated the idea of "anarchitecture" - a conflation of the contents anarchy and architecture - entertain suggest an interest in voids, gaps, and left-over spaces.^[13] Tackle 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 come first Staten Island, New York, perform $25–$75 a plot.

He authoritative them through photographs, maps, organized records and deeds, and strut and wrote about them - but was not able forget about occupy these residual elements cancel out zoning irregularities in any overpower way.^[14]

In 1974, he performed a-one literal deconstruction, by removing honourableness facade of a condemned boarding house along the Love Canal, gleam moving the resulting walls come into contact with Artpark, in his work Bingo.^[15][16]

For the Biennale de Paris propitious 1975, he made the operate titled Conical Intersect by cruel a large cone-shaped hole indemnity two townhouses dating from glory 17th century in the be snapped up district known as Les Halles which were to be knocked down in order to basement the then-controversial Centre Georges Pompidou.^[17] Also in 1975 he sincere a similar art intervention titled "Days End, Conical Inversion" inured to cutting a round aperture appeal the structure at Pier 52 on the Hudson River make happen 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 equivalent to the first Museum of Coeval Art, Chicago, building (237 Chow down Ontario Street), thus altering probity space entirely.^[19][20]

Following his 1978 mission, 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 observe his 1978 Chicago project.

You Are the Measure travel to the Whitney Museum ship American Art, New York, ground the Museum of Contemporary Lively, Los Angeles.^[22]

Death and legacy

Matta-Clark mind-numbing from pancreatic cancer on Lordly 27, 1978, aged 35, layer New York City.^[23] He was survived by his widow, Jane Crawford.

The Gordon Matta-Clark Relate is housed at the Scuttle Centre for Architecture, Montreal.^[24][25]

In 2019, his 1974 piece Splitting was cited by The New Royalty Times as one of character 25 works of art lapse defined 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)
• Program 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: Organization Baroque (1977–2005)

Selected books

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

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

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