GORDON MATTA CLARK
DISERENS, CORINNE
Gordon Matta-Clark (1943-1978) is one of the great heroes of late twentieth-century art, a cult figure as much in the contemporary art world as on the architecture scene, whose work is independent from any movement or school. This book is the first and definitive monograph on the artist, who died at the
age of thirty-five.
Born in New York and trained in architecture, Gordon Matta-Clark is most famous for his slicing through faades, walls and floors of derelict buildings. This deconstructing gesture, provocative and extreme, turns architecture into astonishing sculptures, where the mass of the building is entwined with the light and air that penetrate it. Matta-Clarks interventions are always grounded in social or political convictions. Some of his projects include opening a restaurant (Food, 1971)in the then-neglected district of SoHo in New York, purchasing at auction fractions of unusable urban land in New York (Reality Properties Fake Estates, 1973), dispensing oxygen to passer
La primera y definitiva monografía de uno de los exponentes del arte del siglo XX, una figura de culto tanto en el mundo del arte contemporáneo como de la arquitectura. Conocido por eliminar los límites entre las disciplinas artísticas, Gordón Matta-Clark (1943-1978) es conocido por "deconstruir" edificios abandonados a través de las escisiones en fachadas, paredes y suelos. Una figura clave en el desarrollo de la escena artística neoyorquina en la década de 1970. Imágenes y documentos inéditos recorren la breve pero destacada trayectoria profesional de Matta-Clark. El estudio de Crow es el que más exhaustivamente ha publicado hasta la fecha sobre la vida y la obra del artista. Thomas Crow es director del Getty Research Institute del Getty Center de Los Ángeles, y profesor de Historia del Arte en la universidad de Southern California, en Los Ángeles. Corinne Diserens es comisaria independiente y asesora artística de la Asociación Carta Blanca Editions de Marsella, en Francia.
