Although highly regarded during his short life - and honoured by artist and architects today - the American artist Gordon Matta-Clark (1943-78) has been largely ignored within the history of art. Matta-Clark is best remembered for site-specific projects known as building cuts. Sculptural transformations of architecture produced through direct cuts into buidings scheduled for demolition, these works now exist only as sculptural fragments, photographs and film and video documentations. Matta-Clark is also remembered as a ...
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Although highly regarded during his short life - and honoured by artist and architects today - the American artist Gordon Matta-Clark (1943-78) has been largely ignored within the history of art. Matta-Clark is best remembered for site-specific projects known as building cuts. Sculptural transformations of architecture produced through direct cuts into buidings scheduled for demolition, these works now exist only as sculptural fragments, photographs and film and video documentations. Matta-Clark is also remembered as a catalytic force in the creation of SoHo in the early 1970s. Through loft activities, site projects at the exhibition space 112 Greene Street, and his work at the restaurant Food, he participated in the production of a new social and artistic space.
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Very good+ Cloth backed boards, octavo, illustrated in b&w. Book has mild edgewear to boards, binding tight, text clean and unmarked, with foxing to top edge of block.
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