"Gordon Matta-Clark: Anarchitect" : November 8, 2017-April 8, 2018, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, New York, New York, United States. "Gordon Matta-Clark: Anarchitect" : June 4-September 23, 2018, Jeu de Paume, Paris, France. "Gordon Matta-Clark: Anarchitect" : March 1-August 4, 2019, Kumu Art Museum, Tallinn, Estonia. "Gordon Matta-Clark: Anarchitect" : September 12-December 15, 2019, the Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, United States.
Summary:
"This revealing book looks at the groundbreaking work of Gordon Matta-Clark (1943-1978), whose socially conscious practice blurred the boundaries between contemporary art and architecture. After completing a degree in architecture at Cornell University, Matta-Clark returned to his home city of New York, where he initiated a series of site-specific works in derelict areas of the South Bronx. The borough's many abandoned buildings, the result of economic decline and middle-class flight, served as Matta-Clark's raw material. His series 'Bronx Floors' dissected these structures, performing an anatomical study of ther ravaged urban landscape. Moving from New York to Paris with 'Conical Interserct', a piece that became emblematic of artistic protest, Matta-Clark applied this same method to a pair of seventeenth-century row houses slatted for demolition as a result of the Centre Pompidou's construction. This compelling volume grounds Matta-Clark's practice against the framework of architectural and urban history, stressing his pioneering activist-inspired approach, as well as his contribution to the nascent fields of social practice and relational aesthetics." --description provided by publisher.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.