Gordon Matta Clark Food Documentary
Gordon matta clark us 1972 43 16 mm matta clarks film situates the process of food preparation in new yorks soho at the beginning of the areas gentrification.
Gordon matta clark food documentary. 16mm film transferred to video black and white sound. June 22 1943 august 27 1978 was an american artist best known for his site specific artworks he made in the 1970s. Farley anna marie and robert f.
Food is a short film directed by aritstphotographer robert frank about gordon matta clark and carol gooddens conceptual restaurant. 1972 43 min bw sound 16 mm film on hd video. This documentary shows images of the daily bustle in a restaurant located in soho new york called food which was founded in the fall of 1971 by gordon matta clark the dancer caroline goodden and other members of what would later become the collaborative group anarchitecture which also included laurie anderson tina girouard suzanne harris jene highstein bernard kirschenbaum and richard landry.
Food 1972 gordon matta clarks restaurant directed by robert frank. Anarchitect traveled to kumu art museum in tallinn following presentations at jeu de paume in paris and the bronx museum of the arts where its debut showing in 2017 drew critical acclaim. Other individuals who were involved with food included suzanne harris and rachel lew.
Food was a conceptual eatery by carol gooddens and gordon matta clark which was opened in new yorks soho district in 1972. The photographs were hand made in black and white. Speyer and katherine g.
Courtesy electronic arts intermix eai new york. Owned and operated by caroline goodden food was designed and built largely by matta clark who also organized art events and performances there. Opening the doors of food 1971.
It became a space for conversation and dialogue among the creative people. Food was an important artist run restaurant in soho new yorkfood was founded by artists carol goodden tina girouard and gordon matta clarkfood was considered one of the first important restaurants in soho. This group despite organising a few joint exhibitions actually originated with the.
This film documents the legendary soho restaurant and artists cooperative food which opened in 1971. C 2020 gordon matta clark. Photoglyphs 1973 addressed new yorks pop culture by depicting the growing graffiti.
Food was a place where artists in soho especially those who were later involved in avalanche. Gordon matta clark born gordon roberto echaurren matta. In the early 1970s factory units in this former industrial zone were reappropriated as livework lofts and art spaces in a process of inner city renewal which has since been repeated in many urban centres.
Featuring more than one hundred works as well as film projections and rarely seen materials from the artist s archive this major survey has been organized. Founded in 1972 in the soho neighborhood of new york city food brought together many factors of the local community artists and otherwise becoming a space for dialogue and conversation as well as a living piece in it of itself. February 22june 8 2019.