Gordon Matta Clark Food Restaurant
16mm film transferred to video black and white sound.
Gordon matta clark food restaurant. The storefront was food the first real restaurant in soho besides fanellis bar down the street and a conceptual idea and experiment by matta clark a restaurant run and staffed by artists for artists. Sometimes it may seem as if the ingenuity and thoughtfulness of the worlds greatest chefs puts todays leading artists to shame. This group despite organising a few joint exhibitions actually originated with the.
Food was a place where artists in soho especially those who were later involved in avalanche. 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. Frieze recreates gordon matta clarks food restaurant next week with a different artist taking over each day.
Other individuals who were involved with food included suzanne harris and rachel lew. Farley anna marie and. Food was a pioneer in many ways.
Two days later sonnier and landry came in and saw me cooking behind the counter. 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. Yet there was a time when a certain american artist brought elbulli levels of innovation to bear on the new york restaurant scene.
Gordon matta clarks art restaurant resurrected. In 1971 inspired by their dinner party scene and the lack of eateries in soho matta clark his then girlfriend caroline goodden and artist tina girouard opened food an artist run restaurant on prince and wooster streets. Gift of jerry i.