Gordon Matta-Clark - Reality Properties Fake Estates... - Mind the System, Find the Gap | Z33
Channel: Z33be
Date: 2012-06-15

Interview about Reality Properties Fake Estates: Glendale Sliver (behind houses), Block 3660, Lot 140' (1973) by Gordon Matta-Clark. Part of the exhibition Mind the System, Find the Gap (02.06-30.09.2012)

In 1973 and 1974 Gordon Matta-Clark bought fifteen empty lots in New York for next to nothing. They were tiny pieces of land, uninteresting to city developers because of their limited size, strange shape or because they were squeezed in between other parcels. These spaces or, rather, gaps, nevertheless were part of the city and helped shape its inner structure. They were the ideal places for Matta-Clark to apply his practice of anarchitecture. Matta-Clark photographed and measured the lots and formulated ideas on how artists might possibly use the lots. The limited documentation was posthumously made into collages by Matta-Clark's wife, Jane Crawford.

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