Gordon Matta-Clark

ISBN-13: 9788836611706 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 248 str.

Opis

This catalogue covers the brief but groundbreaking career of the self-proclaimed -anarchitect- Gordon Matta-Clark (1943-1978), one of the most influential American artists of the 1970s. The immense ambition and scale of his projects, and their fearless reimagining of the urban landscape, challenged city-dwellers to reconsider the very notion of built structure and the fragility of seemingly unassailable edifices. Matta-Clark's first interventions took place in abandoned, derelict structures, upon which he performed his famous -building cuts- and -intersects.- First published in 2008 (for a show at SMS Contemporanea in Siena), and organized thematically and chronologically, this substantial volume looks at these and other bodies of work, such as the Food restaurant, the performances, the -estates- and the artist's pursuit of alternative economical housing. The catalogue also includes a filmography and critical essays, plus an interview done by Judith Russi Kirshner in 1978.