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Concrete building with circular piece cut out to front, exposing street below, hardhat worker, GORDON MATTA-CLARK in white font to upper right

Gordon Matta-Clark

By (author) Marco Pierini
By (author) Lorenzo Fusi

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  • Covers the brief but groundbreaking career of the self-proclaimed 'anarchitect' Gordon Matta-Clark (1943-1978), one of the most influential American artists of the 1970s
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The immense ambition and scale of Gordon Matta-Clark’s projects, and their fearless reimagining of the urban landscape, challenged city-dwellers to reconsider the very notion of built structure and the fragility of seemingly unassailable edifices. Matta-Clark’s first interventions took place in abandoned, derelict structures, upon which he performed his famous ‘building cuts’ and ‘intersects’. First published in 2008 (for a show at SMS Contemporanea in Siena), and organised thematically and chronologically, this substantial volume looks at these and other bodies of work, such as the Food restaurant, the performances, the ‘estates’ and the artist’s pursuit of alternative economical housing. The catalogue also includes a filmography and critical essays, plus an interview done by Judith Russi Kirshner in 1978.

Text in English and Italian.

Specifications
Publisher
Silvana
ISBN
9788836611706
Published
8th Oct 2018
Binding
Paperback / softback
Territory
UK, Ireland, Scandinavia, Iceland, Germany, Eastern Europe, & Austria. Arab States non-exclusive
Size
240 mm x 200 mm
Pages
248 Pages
Illustrations
200 color
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