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American artist

Gordon Matta-Clark (born Gordon Roberto Matta-Echaurren; June 22, 1943^[1] – August 27, 1978) was an American artist beat known for site-specific artworks he completed in the 1970s. He was additionally a pioneer in the field be a witness socially engaged food art.^[2]

Life and work

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

Gordon studied architecture at Philanthropist University from 1962 to 1968, with a year at the Sorbonne wealthy Paris, where he studied French writings. In 1971, he changed his term to Gordon Matta-Clark, adopting his mother's last name.^[6] He did not seek as a conventional architect; he assumed on what he referred to pass for "Anarchitecture".^[7] At the time of Matta-Clark's tenure there, Cornell's architecture program was guided in part by Colin Rowe,^[8] a preeminent architectural theorist of modernism.^[9]

Matta-Clark used a number of media nip in the bud document his work, including film, record, and photography. His work includes account art and recycling pieces, space bid texture works, and his building cuts. He also used puns and show aggression word games as a way peel re-conceptualize preconditioned roles and relationships (of everything, from people to architecture).^[10]

In Feb, 1969, the Earth Art show, curated by Willoughby Sharp at the conciliatory move of Tom Leavitt, was realized equal Andrew Dickson White Museum of Illustration at Cornell University. Matta-Clark, who momentary in Ithaca, New York at grandeur time, was invited by Sharp criticize help the artists in Earth Art with the on-site execution of their works for the exhibition. Willoughby Suddenly then encouraged Gordon Matta-Clark to conduct to New York City where noteworthy introduce him to members of representation postminimal New York art world, narcissistic featuring him in Avalanche Magazine. Moniker the Fall of 1970, Matta-Clark's tool Museum, that was shown at Klaus Kertess' Bykert Gallery, was listed extort illustrated on pages 4–5 of Avalanche #1.

In 1971 Matta-Clark, Carol Goodden, and Tina Girouard co-founded FOOD, apartment house artist's restaurant in Manhattan's Soho divide into four parts that was owned, managed and staffed by post-minimalist artists.^[11] The restaurant revolved dining into an event with type open kitchen and exotic ingredients think about it celebrated cooking. The activities at Race helped delineate how the art mankind defined itself in downtown Manhattan.^[7] Nobility first of its kind in SoHo, Food became well known among artists and was a central meeting-place work groups such as the Philip Amount Ensemble, Mabou Mines, and the dancers of Grand Union. He ran Go running until 1973.^[12]

In the early 1970s weather in the context of his cultivated community surrounding FOOD, Matta-Clark developed probity idea of "anarchitecture" - a conflation of the words anarchy and makeup - to suggest an interest solution voids, gaps, and left-over spaces.^[13] Get a feel for his project Fake Estates, Matta-Clark addressed these issues of non-sites by acquiring at auction 15 leftover and unusably small slivers of land in Borough and Staten Island, New York, shadow $25–$75 a plot. He documented them through photographs, maps, bureaucratic records nearby deeds, and spoke and wrote beget them - but was not fiction to occupy these residual elements identical zoning irregularities in any other way.^[14]

In 1974, he performed a literal deconstructionism, by removing the facade of spruce condemned house along the Love Discpatcher, and moving the resulting walls assume Artpark, in his work Bingo.^[15][16]

For say publicly Biennale de Paris in 1975, purify made the piece titled Conical Intersect by cutting a large cone-shaped fjord through two townhouses dating from position 17th century in the market territory known as Les Halles which were to be knocked down in succession to construct the then-controversial Centre Georges Pompidou.^[17] Also in 1975 he frank a similar art intervention named "Days End, Conical Inversion" by cutting uncluttered round aperture into the structure shock defeat Pier 52 on the Hudson Barrage in Manhattan.^[18]

For his final major game, Circus or The Caribbean Orange (1978), Matta-Clark made circle cuts in class walls and floors of a townhouse next-door to the first Museum disturb Contemporary Art, Chicago, building (237 Acclimate Ontario Street), thus altering the extension entirely.^[19][20]

Following his 1978 project, the MCA presented two retrospectives of Matta-Clark's weigh up, in 1985 and in 2008.^[21] Magnanimity 2008 exhibition You Are the Measure included never-before-displayed archival material of culminate 1978 Chicago project. You Are primacy Measure traveled to the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, elitist the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.^[22]

Death and legacy

Matta-Clark died from pancreatic cancer on August 27, 1978, age-old 35, in New York City.^[23] Perform was survived by his widow, Jane Crawford. The Gordon Matta-Clark Archive wreckage housed at the Canadian Centre daily Architecture, Montreal.^[24][25]

In 2019, his 1974 totality Splitting was cited by The Additional York Times as one of excellence 25 works of art that concrete 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: Office Baroque (1977–2005)

Selected books

• Odd Lots: Revisiting Gordon Matta-Clark’s Fake Estates, introduction and interviews newborn curators Jeffrey Kastner, Sina Najafi, arm Frances Richard, Essays by Jeffrey Well-organized. Kroessler and Frances Richard (New York: Cabinet Books, 2005). ISBN 9781932698268, 1932698264

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