HOMMAGE A MATTA-CLARK
MATTA-CLARK, RETROSPECTIVE(LY) - In 2004 the San Francisco Cinematheque unearthed "anarchitect" Gordon Matta-Clark’s short films (1971-1977) -- Tree Dance, Fire Child, Fresh Kills, Bingo, Office Baroque, Food, City Slivers, Conical Intersect, Clocktower, and Day’s End -- retrospectively surveying Matta-Clark’s "excavation of aesthetic assumptions, urban reality and philosophical inquiry with cranes, chainsaws and floods of natural light." (Steven Jenkins, SFC) - The films were screened @ the San Francisco Art Institute, March 25 through 26, 2004 - Catalogue, City Slivers and Fresh Kills: The Films of Gordon Matta-Clark (2004)
SELECT TITLES
Jeffrey Kastner et alia, Odd Lots: Revisiting Gordon Matta-Clark’s Fake Estates (New York: Cabinet, 2005) - Paper, 95 pages, ISBN 1-932-69826-4
Thomas Crow, Corinne Diserens (eds.), Gordon Matta-Clark (London: Phaidon, 2003), Cloth, 240 pages, 120 color / 100 b&w illustrations, ISBN 0-714-83916-7
Pamela M. Lee, Object to Be Destroyed: The Work of Gordon Matta-Clark (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1999) - Cloth, 240 pages, 99 illustrations, ISBN 0-262-12220-0 (Paper, ISBN 0-262-62156-8) - "Although highly regarded during his short life -- and honored by artists and architects today -- the American artist Gordon Matta-Clark (1943-78) has been largely ignored within the history of art. Matta-Clark is best remembered for site-specific projects known as 'building cuts.' Sculptural transformations of architecture produced through direct cuts into buildings scheduled for demolition, these works now exist only as sculptural fragments, photographs, and film and video documentations. Matta-Clark is also remembered as a catalytic force in the creation of SoHo in the early 1970s. Through loft activities, site projects at the exhibition space 112 Greene Street, and his work at the restaurant Food, he participated in the production of a new social and artistic space." (MIT Press)
James Attlee, Lisa Le Feuvre, Gordon Matta-Clark: The Space Between (Tucson: Nazraeli Press, 2003) - Cloth, 112 pages, 15 b&w & color plates, ISBN 1-590-05049-5 - An intellectual exploration of Matta-Clark's work. Published to coincide with the traveling exhibition "Gordon Matta-Clark: the Space Between" (2003), May 1 through May 31, 2003 @ The Architectural Association (London), January 25 through March 23, 2003 @ Centre for Contemporary Art (Glasgow) ...
ARTICLES
Pamela L. Lee, "On the Holes of History: Gordon Matta-Clark's Work in Paris", October 85 (Summer 1998), pp. 65-89
Michel Moussette, "Gordon Matta-Clark's Circling the Circle of the Caribbean Orange", Alberto Pérez-Gómez, Stephen Parcell (eds.), Chora Four: Intervals in the Philosophy of Architecture (Montréal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2004), pp. 197-210 - The essay cites two interviews with Matta-Clark: 1/ Judith Russi Kirshner, "Interview with Gordon Matta-Clark", Corinne Diserens (ed.), Gordon Matta-Clark (Valencia: IVAM Centre Julio Gonzales, 1992); and "Gordon Matta-Clark's Building Dissections", Arts Magazine 50, No. 2 (May 1976) ... Caribbean Orange (Chicago) was Matta-Clark's last 'realized' project before his death in 1978 ...
Treshole. Reality Properties: Fake Estates is treated in Yve-Alain Bois and Rosalind Krauss' Formless: A User's Guide (New York: Zone Books, 1996) ...
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David Zwirner Gallery (New York)
Odd Lots: Revisiting Gordon Matta-Clark’s Fake Estates (Queens Museum of Art, 2005-2006)
