Urban alchemy
Subtitle: Gordon Matta-Clark
By: [curator: Francesca Herndon-Consagra]
Contributors: Consagra, Francesca, 1958-; Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts
Publisher: Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts
Published: 2009
Place of publication: St. Louis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 29
ISBN-13: 9780982334706
Subjects: Exhibitions; Buildings; Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts
Description: Gordon Matta-Clark used neglected structures slated for demolition as his raw material. He carved out sections of buildings in order to reveal their hidden constructions, to provide new ways of perceiving space, and to create metaphors for the human condition. When wrecking balls knocked down his sculpted buildings, little remained. He took photographs and films of his interventions and kept a few of the building segments. The placement of Matta-Clark's work in the Pulitzer's building by Tadao Ando offers the means to recall the artist's lost interventions.
Notes: Published on the occasion of Urban Alchemy/Gordon Matta-Clark October 30, 2009-June 5, 2010, Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, St. Louis, Missouri.

Gordon Matta-Clark used neglected structures slated for demolition as his raw material. He carved out sections of buildings in order to reveal their hidden constructions, to provide new ways of perceiving space, and to create metaphors for the human condition. When wrecking balls knocked down his sculpted buildings, little remained. He took photographs and films of his interventions and kept a few of the building segments. The placement of Matta-Clark’s work in the Pulitzer’s building by Tadao Ando offers the means to recall the artist’s lost interventions.

Includes a facsimile of Matta-Clark' fellowship application to the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 1976, [8] p.

Issued in a wrap-around cover (26 cm.).

Title from cover.