Gordon Matta-Clark
Subtitle: anarchitect
By: Antonio Sergio Bessa ; Jessamyn Fiore
Contributors: Bessa, Antonio Sergio, author, curator; Fiore, Jessamyn, author, curator; Matta-Clark, Gordon, 1943-1978; Bronx Museum of the Arts; Yale University Press; Jeu de paume (Gallery : France); Kumu kunstimuuseum (Tallinn, Estonia); Rose Art Museum
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 169
ISBN-13: 9780300230437
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Site-specific art; Conceptual art; Criticism and interpretation; Exhibitions; Art and architecture
Description: "This revealing book looks at the groundbreaking work of Gordon Matta-Clark (1943-1978), whose socially conscious practice blurred the boundaries between contemporary art and architecture. After completing a degree in architecture at Cornell University, Matta-Clark returned to his home city of New York, where he initiated a series of site-specific works in derelict areas of the South Bronx. The borough's many abandoned buildings, the result of economic decline and middle-class flight, served as Matta-Clark's raw material. His series 'Bronx Floors' dissected these structures, performing an anatomical study of ther ravaged urban landscape. Moving from New York to Paris with 'Conical Interserct', a piece that became emblematic of artistic protest, Matta-Clark applied this same method to a pair of seventeenth-century row houses slatted for demolition as a result of the Centre Pompidou's construction. This compelling volume grounds Matta-Clark's practice against the framework of architectural and urban history, stressing his pioneering activist-inspired approach, as well as his contribution to the nascent fields of social practice and relational aesthetics."
Notes: "Gordon Matta-Clark: Anarchitect" : November 8, 2017-April 8, 2018, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, New York, New York, United States.

"Gordon Matta-Clark: Anarchitect" : June 4-September 23, 2018, Jeu de Paume, Paris, France.

"Gordon Matta-Clark: Anarchitect" : March 1-August 4, 2019, Kumu Art Museum, Tallinn, Estonia.

"Gordon Matta-Clark: Anarchitect" : September 12-December 15, 2019, the Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, United States.