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Gordon Matta-Clark

Gordon Matta-Clark

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    Gordon Matta-Clark
    Installation view at Galerie Thomas Schulte, 2017

    Gordon Matta-Clark, born in 1943 in New York, died in 1978 at the same place, was a conceptual artist best known for his so-called “building cuts” from the 1970s; a series of site-specific projects, involving the dissection of abandoned buildings. Matta-Clark received formal training as an architect at Cornell University from 1962 to 1968, including a year at the Sorbonne in Paris, where he studied French literature and met Guy Debord and the Situationist International. Matta-Clark never practiced architecture, but instead devised a theory of “anarchitecture,” an alternative use of buildings. The film and photographic material from his “building cuts” projects is combined with the experimental roughness of the architectural cuts, constituting a denunciation of the function of conventional architecture.

    Throughout his lifetime the artist received numerous grants and awards including the Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship (1977) and the National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship Theodoron (1975). Important solo exhibitions include the Paris Biennale (1975), the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (1977; 1978; 1985), the Stedelijk Museum (1986), the Museo Reina Sofía (1997; 2006), and the Whitney Museum of American Art (2007). Notable group exhibitions include MoMA (1971), Documenta (1972; 1977), MoMA P.S.1 (1976; 2015), Moderna Museet, SFMOMA (1993; 1999), Hamburger Kunsthalle (2000), Tate Modern (2005), the Musée National d’Art Modern in Paris (2005), and the Art Institute of Chicago (2016). His work is included in the public collections of the Canadian Center for Architecture, MoMA, Whitney Museum of American Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, SFMOMA, Stedelijk Museum, and Sammlung Verbund, Vienna.

  • Works
    • GMCT1378
      Gordon Matta-Clark
      Conical Intersect, 1975
      eight collaged gelatin silver prints
      36.8 x 27.9 cm 14 7/16 x 10 15/16 ins
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  • Selected Works
    • GMCT201.3
      Gordon Matta-Clark
      Circus or The Caribbean Orange, 1978
      cibachrome print
      101.6 x 76.2 cm 40 x 30 ins
      Edition 3/3
    • GMCT1378
      Gordon Matta-Clark
      Conical Intersect, 1975
      eight collaged gelatin silver prints
      36.8 x 27.9 cm 14 7/16 x 10 15/16 ins
    • CS.23
      Gordon Matta-Clark
      Clockshower, 1973
      16 mm film transfer color , sound
      Edition 5/10
    • Gordon Matta-Clark Conical Intersect, 1975 photo 26 x 18 cm 10 3/16 x 7 1/16 ins
      Gordon Matta-Clark
      Conical Intersect, 1975
      photo
      26 x 18 cm 10 3/16 x 7 1/16 ins
    • GMCT191
      Gordon Matta-Clark
      Office Baroque, 1977
      cibachrome print
      76.2 x 101.6 cm 30 x 40 ins
      Edition 1/3
    • Gordon Matta-Clark Conical Intersect, 1975 Cibachrome 75.6 x 100.3 cm 29 12/16 x 39 7/16 ins
      Gordon Matta-Clark
      Conical Intersect, 1975
      Cibachrome
      75.6 x 100.3 cm 29 12/16 x 39 7/16 ins
    • stefanhaehnel_GTS_Matta-Clark-1
      Gordon Matta-Clark
      Untitled (Paper Cuts), 1976
      stack of cut paper
      58.5 x 75.5 x 1.2 cm
      23 1/16 x 29 11/16 x 0 7/16 in
    • GMAT_GTS_566_framed
      Gordon Matta-Clark
      Cut Drawing, 1974
      cut paper
      96.4946 x 118.999 x 0.9906 cm 37 15/16 x 46 13/16 x 0 6/16 ins
    • Gordon Matta-Clark Untitled (Cut Drawing), 1973 cut board and stucco 48.3 x 67.6 x 2.5 cm 19 1/16 x 26 9/16 x 0 15/16 ins
      Gordon Matta-Clark
      Untitled (Cut Drawing), 1973
      cut board and stucco
      48.3 x 67.6 x 2.5 cm 19 1/16 x 26 9/16 x 0 15/16 ins
    • TS_Matta-Clark_Innen-Final2-HighRes-29
      Gordon Matta-Clark
      Garbage Wall, 1970
      various household and electronic waste, metal, plastics, glass, ceramics, wood, styrofoam, screed
      206 x 360 x 100 cm
      81 1/8 x 141 3/4 x 39 3/8 in
    • Gordon Matta Clark Garbage Wall 2017 Galerie Thomas Schulte 02
    • Gordon Matta Clark Garbage Wall 2017 Galerie Thomas Schulte 01
    • Gordon Matta-Clark Splitting Book: Number 2 & 3, 1975 collaged gelatin silver prints 48.3 x 73.7 cm 19 1/16 x 29 1/16 ins
      Gordon Matta-Clark
      Splitting Book: Number 2 & 3, 1975
      collaged gelatin silver prints
      48.3 x 73.7 cm 19 1/16 x 29 1/16 ins
    • GMCT1081
      Gordon Matta-Clark
      Proposal for Documenta 6, 1977
      four drawings , ink on paper
    • Gordon Matta-Clark Sky Hook (study for a balloon building), 1978 ink on paper 28 x 23 cm 11 1/16 x 9 1/16 ins
      Gordon Matta-Clark
      Sky Hook (study for a balloon building), 1978
      ink on paper
      28 x 23 cm 11 1/16 x 9 1/16 ins
    • Gordon Matta-Clark Untitled (Accumulative Reduction), 1975 pencil and ink on paper 23.5 x 32.4 cm 9 4/16 x 12 12/16 ins
      Gordon Matta-Clark
      Untitled (Accumulative Reduction), 1975
      pencil and ink on paper
      23.5 x 32.4 cm 9 4/16 x 12 12/16 ins
    • Gordon Matta-Clark Untitled (Accumulative Reduction), 1975 pencil and ink on paper 24.1 x 33 cm 9 7/16 x 12 15/16 ins
      Gordon Matta-Clark
      Untitled (Accumulative Reduction), 1975
      pencil and ink on paper
      24.1 x 33 cm 9 7/16 x 12 15/16 ins
    • Gordon Matta-Clark Untitled (Accumulative Reduction), 1975 pencil and ink on paper 23.5 x 32.4 cm 9 4/16 x 12 12/16 ins
      Gordon Matta-Clark
      Untitled (Accumulative Reduction), 1975
      pencil and ink on paper
      23.5 x 32.4 cm 9 4/16 x 12 12/16 ins
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  • Exhibitions in the gallery
    • SHELTER IN PLACE

      SHELTER IN PLACE

      GROUP SHOW 8 June TO 13 July 2020
      Galerie Thomas Schulte is pleased to announce the online film exhibition Shelter in Place, curated...
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    • THE NOTION OF MUTABLE SPACE

      THE NOTION OF MUTABLE SPACE

      GORDON MATTA-CLARK 9 September TO 4 November 2017
      The Notion of Mutable Space is both a fundamental element and a postulation in Gordon...
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  • Artist News
    • Gordon Matta-Clark / Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Austria

      Gordon Matta-Clark / Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Austria

      Solo Exhibition 13 November 2021
      In his radical, socially critical, and innovative work, Gordon Matta-Clark was one of the most significant figures from the New York art scene of the...
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