Gordon Matta Clark Conical Intersect
The french authorities in charge of demolishing the old marketplace les halles and making room for the new centre georges pompidou offered matta clark a pair of early seventeenth century houses adjacent to the centre pompidou building site that were slated for demolition.
Gordon matta clark conical intersect. See the renowned permanent collection and special exhibitions. He states that matta clarks decision to rework two abandoned buildings was an act of communication. Conical intersect building cuts 1975.
For the biennale de paris in 1975 he made the piece titled conical intersect by cutting a large cone shaped hole through two townhouses dating from the 17th century in the market district known as les halles which were to be knocked down in order to construct the then controversial centre georges pompidou. The shapes that matta clark cut out of the walls were based on anthony mccalls line describing a cone and provoked a strong sense of physical and visual stability that was intensified by the framework of the new centre georges pompidou which was being built. Conical intersect the author bruce jenkins examines matta clarks proposals working process various sorts of documentation.
Gordon matta clarks conical intersect 1975 was a torqued spiraling cut into two derelict seventeenth century paris buildings adjacent to the construction site of the controversial centre pompidou. Conical intersect resulted from an invitation by city officials in paris on the occasion of the ninth paris biennial 1975. One of his most acclaimed works conical intersect 1975 consisted of creating huge circular openings in the walls of an apartment building that was about to be knocked down in the working class neighbourhood of les halles in paris.
Conical intersecta temporary project that like other of matta clarks performative interventions now exists only as video documentationis a good example of the artists literal de construction of existing structures to reveal hidden or unexpected urban narratives. Matta clark doesnt have the name recognition of contemporaries such as robert smithson whose work his superficially resembles or laurie anderson who was part of an informal collective of.