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Gordon Matta-Clark

January 01, 1970

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

Gordon Matta-Clark
'Opening the doors of Food' (1971). Matta-Clark (right).
Born
Gordon Roberto Matta-Echaurren

(1943-06-22)June 22, 1943
New York, New York, U.S.
DiedAugust 27, 1978(1978-08-27) (aged 35)
New York, New York, U.S.
NationalityAmerican
OccupationArtist
SpouseJane Crawford (1977-1978; his death)

Life and work edit

 
Gordon Matta-Clark Retrospective at Brooklyn Museum

Matta-Clark's parents were artists: Anne Clark, an American artist, and Roberto Matta, a Chilean Surrealist painter, of Basque, French and Spanish descent. He was the godson of Marcel Duchamp's wife, Teeny.[3] His twin brother Sebastian, also an artist, died by suicide in 1976.[4]

He studied architecture at Cornell University from 1962 to 1968, including a year at the Sorbonne in Paris, where he studied French literature. In 1971, he changed his name to Gordon Matta-Clark, adopting his mother's last name.[5] He did not practice as a conventional architect; he worked on what he referred to as "Anarchitecture".[6] At the time of Matta-Clark's tenure there, Cornell's architecture program was guided in part by Colin Rowe,[7] a preeminent architectural theorist of modernism.[8]

Matta-Clark used a number of media to document his work, including film, video, and photography. His work includes performance and recycling pieces, space and texture works, and his "building cuts". He also used puns and other word games as a way to re-conceptualize preconditioned roles and relationships (of everything, from people to architecture). [citation needed]

In February, 1969, the "Earth Art" show, curated by Willoughby Sharp at the invitation of Tom Leavitt, was realized at Andrew Dickson White Museum of Art, Cornell University. Matta-Clark, who lived in Ithaca at the time, was invited by Sharp to help the artists in "Earth Art" with the on-site execution of their works for the exhibition. Sharp then encouraged Gordon Matta-Clark to move to New York City where Sharp continued to introduce him to members of the New York art world. Matta-Clark's work, Museum, at Klaus Kertess' Bykert Gallery, was listed and illustrated on pages 4–5 of Avalanche 1, Fall 1970.

In 1971 Matta-Clark, Carol Goodden, and Tina Girouard co-founded FOOD, a restaurant in Manhattan's Soho neighborhood; managed and staffed by artists.[9] The restaurant turned dining into an event with an open kitchen and exotic ingredients that celebrated cooking. The activities at FOOD helped delineate how the art community defined itself in downtown Manhattan.[6] The first of its kind in SoHo, Food became well known among artists and was a central meeting-place for groups such as the Philip Glass Ensemble, Mabou Mines, and the dancers of Grand Union. He ran FOOD until 1973.[10]

In the early 1970s and in the context of his artistic community surrounding FOOD, Matta-Clark developed the idea of "anarchitecture" - a conflation of the words anarchy and architecture - to suggest an interest in voids, gaps, and left-over spaces.[11] With 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 and Staten Island, New York, for $25–$75 a plot. He documented them through photographs, maps, bureaucratic records and deeds, and spoke and wrote about them - but was not able to occupy these residual elements of zoning irregularities in any other way.[12]

In 1974, he performed a literal deconstruction, by removing the facade of a condemned house along the Love Canal, and moving the resulting walls to Artpark, in his work Bingo.[13][14]

For the Biennale de Paris in 1975, he made the piece titled Conical Intersect by cutting a large cone-shaped hole through two townhouses dating from the 17th century in the market district known as Les Halles which were to be knocked down in order to construct the then-controversial Centre Georges Pompidou.[15] Also in 1975 he did a similar art intervention named "Days End, Conical Inversion" by cutting a round aperture into the structure at Pier 52 on the Hudson River in Manhattan.[16]

For his final major project, Circus or The Caribbean Orange (1978), Matta-Clark made circle cuts in the walls and floors of a townhouse next-door to the first Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, building (237 East Ontario Street), thus altering the space entirely.[17][18]

Following his 1978 project, the MCA presented two retrospectives of Matta-Clark's work, in 1985 and in 2008.[19] The 2008 exhibition You Are the Measure included never-before-displayed archival material of his 1978 Chicago project. You Are the Measure traveled to the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.[20]

Death and legacy edit

Matta-Clark died from pancreatic cancer on August 27, 1978, aged 35, in New York City.[21] He was survived by his widow, Jane Crawford. The Gordon Matta-Clark Archive is housed at the Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal.[22][23]

In 2019, his 1974 piece Splitting was cited by The New York Times as one of the 25 works of art that defined the contemporary age.[24]

Videography edit

  • 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 edit

  • Odd Lots: Revisiting Gordon Matta-Clark’s Fake Estates, introduction and 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

References edit

  1. ^ Lee, Pamela M. (2001). Object to Be Destroyed: The Work of Gordon Matta-Clark. MIT Press. p. 3. ISBN 978-0-262-62156-4.
  2. ^ Shin, Ryan; Bae, Jaehan (2019-07-03). "Conflict Kitchen and Enemy Kitchen: Socially Engaged Food Pedagogy". Studies in Art Education. 60 (3): 219–235. doi:10.1080/00393541.2019.1640501. ISSN 0039-3541. S2CID 202255118.
  3. ^ Gordon Matta-Clark Biography, Guggenheim Museum; accessed 2017-07-10
  4. ^ Smyth, Ned. "artnet.com Magazine Features - Gordon Matta-Clark". artnet. Artnet Worldwide Corporation. Retrieved February 8, 2022. In 1976, Gordon's twin brother committed suicide by jumping from Gordon's loft...
  5. ^ Profile, museum.cornell.edu; accessed July 10, 2017.
  6. ^ a b William Hanley (April 11, 2007). "Gordon Matta-Clark at the Whitney". ARTINFO. Retrieved 2008-04-21.
  7. ^ Cornell Festschrift honors Colin Rowe, one of architecture's most influential scholars Cornell Chronicle, 1996-03-2; accessed 2015-07-28
  8. ^ Petit, Emmanuel, ed. (2015). Reckoning with Colin Rowe: Ten Architects Take Position. New York: Routledge.
  9. ^ Waxman, Lori (2008). "The Banquet Years: FOOD, A SoHo Restaurant". Gastronomica: The Journal of Food and Culture. 8 (4): 24–33. doi:10.1525/gfc.2008.8.4.24.
  10. ^ Steven Stern (September 2007). "Gordon Matta-Clark". Frieze Magazine. Retrieved 2017-07-10.
  11. ^ Jeff Rian (June 1993). "Rocking the Foundation". Frieze Magazine. Retrieved 2017-07-10.
  12. ^ Kastner, Jeffrey; Najafi, Sina; Richard, Frances, eds. (2005). Odd Lots: Revisiting Gordon Matta-Clark's Fake Estates. New York: Cabinet Books. ISBN 9781932698268.
  13. ^ . YouTube. Archived from the original (video) on 2013-07-29. Retrieved 2008-10-27.
  14. ^ "Bingo". Retrieved 2008-10-26.
  15. ^ Jenkins, Bruce (2011). Gordon Matta-Clark: Conical Intersect. London: Afterall Books.
  16. ^ "Gordon Matta-Clark - Day's End".
  17. ^ "Gordon Matta-Clark: You Are the Measure". Artdaily. 2008. Retrieved 2011-06-13.
  18. ^ . Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. Archived from the original on 2011-07-25. Retrieved 2011-06-13.
  19. ^ "Gordon Matta-Clark: You Are the Measure". Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. Retrieved 2017-07-10.
  20. ^ "Gordon Matta-Clark: You Are the Measure" (PDF). Press Release. Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. 2008-01-01. Retrieved 2011-06-13.[permanent dead link]
  21. ^ Profile, davidzwirner.com; accessed March 28, 2015.
  22. ^ Gordon Matta-Clark Archive, cca.qc.ca; accessed 2015-07-29.
  23. ^ Profile, nytimes.com; accessed March 28, 2015.
  24. ^ Lescaze, Zoë; David Breslin; Martha Rosler; Kelly Taxter; Rirkrit Tiravanija; Torey Thornton; Thessaly La Force (15 July 2019). "The 25 Works of Art That Define the Contemporary Age". T. The New York Times. from the original on 1 February 2022. Retrieved 24 March 2022.

External links edit

  • Gordon Matta-Clark at the Museum of Modern Art
  • Finding aid for the Gordon Matta-Clark Collection, Canadian Centre for Architecture (digitized items)
  • Gordon Matta-Clark at David Zwirner
  • Selected Press at David Zwirner
  • Profile on Artnet.com
  • EAI: Gordon Matta-Clark Biography and a list of video works by the artist

January 01, 1970
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Gordon Matta Clark born Gordon Roberto Matta Echaurren June 22 1943 1 August 27 1978 was an American artist best known for site specific artworks he made in the 1970s He was also a pioneer in the field of socially engaged food art 2 Gordon Matta Clark Opening the doors of Food 1971 Matta Clark right BornGordon Roberto Matta Echaurren 1943 06 22 June 22 1943New York New York U S DiedAugust 27 1978 1978 08 27 aged 35 New York New York U S NationalityAmericanOccupationArtistSpouseJane Crawford 1977 1978 his death Contents 1 Life and work 2 Death and legacy 3 Videography 4 Selected books 5 References 6 External linksLife and work edit nbsp Gordon Matta Clark Retrospective at Brooklyn Museum Matta Clark s parents were artists Anne Clark an American artist and Roberto Matta a Chilean Surrealist painter of Basque French and Spanish descent He was the godson of Marcel Duchamp s wife Teeny 3 His twin brother Sebastian also an artist died by suicide in 1976 4 He studied architecture at Cornell University from 1962 to 1968 including a year at the Sorbonne in Paris where he studied French literature In 1971 he changed his name to Gordon Matta Clark adopting his mother s last name 5 He did not practice as a conventional architect he worked on what he referred to as Anarchitecture 6 At the time of Matta Clark s tenure there Cornell s architecture program was guided in part by Colin Rowe 7 a preeminent architectural theorist of modernism 8 Matta Clark used a number of media to document his work including film video and photography His work includes performance and recycling pieces space and texture works and his building cuts He also used puns and other word games as a way to re conceptualize preconditioned roles and relationships of everything from people to architecture citation needed In February 1969 the Earth Art show curated by Willoughby Sharp at the invitation of Tom Leavitt was realized at Andrew Dickson White Museum of Art Cornell University Matta Clark who lived in Ithaca at the time was invited by Sharp to help the artists in Earth Art with the on site execution of their works for the exhibition Sharp then encouraged Gordon Matta Clark to move to New York City where Sharp continued to introduce him to members of the New York art world Matta Clark s work Museum at Klaus Kertess Bykert Gallery was listed and illustrated on pages 4 5 of Avalanche 1 Fall 1970 In 1971 Matta Clark Carol Goodden and Tina Girouard co founded FOOD a restaurant in Manhattan s Soho neighborhood managed and staffed by artists 9 The restaurant turned dining into an event with an open kitchen and exotic ingredients that celebrated cooking The activities at FOOD helped delineate how the art community defined itself in downtown Manhattan 6 The first of its kind in SoHo Food became well known among artists and was a central meeting place for groups such as the Philip Glass Ensemble Mabou Mines and the dancers of Grand Union He ran FOOD until 1973 10 In the early 1970s and in the context of his artistic community surrounding FOOD Matta Clark developed the idea of anarchitecture a conflation of the words anarchy and architecture to suggest an interest in voids gaps and left over spaces 11 With 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 and Staten Island New York for 25 75 a plot He documented them through photographs maps bureaucratic records and deeds and spoke and wrote about them but was not able to occupy these residual elements of zoning irregularities in any other way 12 In 1974 he performed a literal deconstruction by removing the facade of a condemned house along the Love Canal and moving the resulting walls to Artpark in his work Bingo 13 14 For the Biennale de Paris in 1975 he made the piece titled Conical Intersect by cutting a large cone shaped hole through two townhouses dating from the 17th century in the market district known as Les Halles which were to be knocked down in order to construct the then controversial Centre Georges Pompidou 15 Also in 1975 he did a similar art intervention named Days End Conical Inversion by cutting a round aperture into the structure at Pier 52 on the Hudson River in Manhattan 16 For his final major project Circus or The Caribbean Orange 1978 Matta Clark made circle cuts in the walls and floors of a townhouse next door to the first Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago building 237 East Ontario Street thus altering the space entirely 17 18 Following his 1978 project the MCA presented two retrospectives of Matta Clark s work in 1985 and in 2008 19 The 2008 exhibition You Are the Measure included never before displayed archival material of his 1978 Chicago project You Are the Measure traveled to the Whitney Museum of American Art New York and the Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles 20 Death and legacy editMatta Clark died from pancreatic cancer on August 27 1978 aged 35 in New York City 21 He was survived by his widow Jane Crawford The Gordon Matta Clark Archive is housed at the Canadian Centre for Architecture Montreal 22 23 In 2019 his 1974 piece Splitting was cited by The New York Times as one of the 25 works of art that defined the contemporary age 24 Videography editProgram 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 editOdd Lots Revisiting Gordon Matta Clark s Fake Estates introduction and 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 1932698264References edit Lee Pamela M 2001 Object to Be Destroyed The Work of Gordon Matta Clark MIT Press p 3 ISBN 978 0 262 62156 4 Shin Ryan Bae Jaehan 2019 07 03 Conflict Kitchen and Enemy Kitchen Socially Engaged Food Pedagogy Studies in Art Education 60 3 219 235 doi 10 1080 00393541 2019 1640501 ISSN 0039 3541 S2CID 202255118 Gordon Matta Clark Biography Guggenheim Museum accessed 2017 07 10 Smyth Ned artnet com Magazine Features Gordon Matta Clark artnet Artnet Worldwide Corporation Retrieved February 8 2022 In 1976 Gordon s twin brother committed suicide by jumping from Gordon s loft Profile museum cornell edu accessed July 10 2017 a b William Hanley April 11 2007 Gordon Matta Clark at the Whitney ARTINFO Retrieved 2008 04 21 Cornell Festschrift honors Colin Rowe one of architecture s most influential scholars Cornell Chronicle 1996 03 2 accessed 2015 07 28 Petit Emmanuel ed 2015 Reckoning with Colin Rowe Ten Architects Take Position New York Routledge Waxman Lori 2008 The Banquet Years FOOD A SoHo Restaurant Gastronomica The Journal of Food and Culture 8 4 24 33 doi 10 1525 gfc 2008 8 4 24 Steven Stern September 2007 Gordon Matta Clark Frieze Magazine Retrieved 2017 07 10 Jeff Rian June 1993 Rocking the Foundation Frieze Magazine Retrieved 2017 07 10 Kastner Jeffrey Najafi Sina Richard Frances eds 2005 Odd Lots Revisiting Gordon Matta Clark s Fake Estates New York Cabinet Books ISBN 9781932698268 Bingo Ninths YouTube Archived from the original video on 2013 07 29 Retrieved 2008 10 27 Bingo Retrieved 2008 10 26 Jenkins Bruce 2011 Gordon Matta Clark Conical Intersect London Afterall Books Gordon Matta Clark Day s End Gordon Matta Clark You Are the Measure Artdaily 2008 Retrieved 2011 06 13 History of the MCA Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago Archived from the original on 2011 07 25 Retrieved 2011 06 13 Gordon Matta Clark You Are the Measure Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago Retrieved 2017 07 10 Gordon Matta Clark You Are the Measure PDF Press Release Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago 2008 01 01 Retrieved 2011 06 13 permanent dead link Profile davidzwirner com accessed March 28 2015 Gordon Matta Clark Archive cca qc ca accessed 2015 07 29 Profile nytimes com accessed March 28 2015 Lescaze Zoe David Breslin Martha Rosler Kelly Taxter Rirkrit Tiravanija Torey Thornton Thessaly La Force 15 July 2019 The 25 Works of Art That Define the Contemporary Age T The New York Times Archived from the original on 1 February 2022 Retrieved 24 March 2022 External links editGordon Matta Clark at the Museum of Modern Art Finding aid for the Gordon Matta Clark Collection Canadian Centre for Architecture digitized items Gordon Matta Clark at David Zwirner Selected Press at David Zwirner Profile on Artnet com EAI Gordon Matta Clark Biography and a list of video works by the artist Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Gordon Matta Clark amp oldid 1213604293, 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