Gordon Matta Clark Drawings
Gordon matta clark was born in 1943 and was the son of the chilean surrealist artist roberto matta.
Gordon matta clark drawings. His famed building cuts involved carefully cleaving through part or all of an abandoned structure removing sections of floors ceilings and walls. The 10 years of gordon matta clark will trace the artists radical approach to art making from 1968 to 1978 through more than four hundred drawings photo works films and archival documents. In the course of revisiting these images frances richard revives the groups debate about spatiality sculpture and resistance.
Gordon matta clark was an american artist and architect known for his large scale projects. Untitled drawing for the judson memorial poetry reading 7 c. Gordon matta clark born gordon roberto echaurren matta.
In 1974 anarchitecture a group whose members included gordon matta clark and others connected to the artist run gallery 112 green street contributed a photo essay to flash art among the very few traces of their production. Gordon matta clarks anti establishment suspicion of the worlds of art and architecture illustrated by his involvement in the anarchitecture group led to some of the most innovative works of conceptual art of the 20th century. The son of surrealist painter roberto matta he studied architecture at cornell university from 1962 to 1968.
Following a year spent studying french literature at the sorbonne in paris he enrolled in the architecture program at cornell university and in the early 1970s began his career as an artist. A central figure of the downtown new york art scene in the 1970s matta clark directly engaged the urban environment and the communities within it. Wikidata q953717 view or edit the full wikipedia entry.
Ink and marker pen on wove paper. Courtesy the estate of gordon matta clark. Gordon matta clark 19431978 detail.
Gordon matta clark is best known for bold unconventional drawings films photographs and sculptures relating to the built environment. One could scarcely imagine a more heady or certain background from which to produce an artist for whom any taboo was a challenge and all conventions existed to be undermined. June 22 1943 august 27 1978 was an american artist best known for his site specific artworks he made in the 1970s.
The most famous of these was splitting 1974 an intervention in which the artist sawed out a gaping vertical segment from the middle of a wood frame house in suburban new jersey. Matta clarks work museum at klaus kertess bykert gallery was listed and illustrated on pages 45 of avalanche 1 fall 1970. There he met sculptor robert smithson whose interests in land art and the theory of entropy influenced him significantly.
His famed building cuts involved carefully cleaving through part or all of an abandoned structure removing sections of floors ceilings and walls.