In splitting 1974, mattaclark and an assistant cut through the entirety of an abandoned suburban home with a chainsaw. Gordon mattaclark was an american artist best known for his sitespecific artworks he made in. Food was considered one of the first important restaurants in soho. Architecture, cornell university, ithaca, ny selected solo exhibitions 2008 gordon matta clark, palazzo delle papesse centro arte contemporanea, siena, italy catalogue 2007 food, this is not a shop galleryproject space, dublin, ireland gordon matta. The screenings will take place on friday 22 september, from 6. Gordon mattaclark above and below april 2 may 4, 20 gordon mattaclark city slivers, 1976 16mm film, 15 min, color, silent dimensions variable with installation gmctf08 relic from conical intersect medieval statues hands, n. Gordon matta clark was the james dean of postwar american art. Like his father, the surrealist painter roberto sebastian matta echaurren, gordon matta clark studied to be an architect. Since 1998, the estate of gordon matta clark has been represented by david zwirner. Gordon mattaclark born gordon roberto echaurren matta. On closer inspection, i saw that it read, anne alpert 551914 to 3301997, john sebastian matta 6221943 to 7141976, gordon matta clark 6221943 to 8271978. Oct 22, 2014 starting in the summer of 1973, artist gordon matta clark purchased fifteen lots in the city of new york, fourteen in queens and one in staten island. Gordon mattaclark and the museum of contemporary art in antwerp m hka.
Thanks to the commitment of carol goodden and gordon mattaclark, during the three years of its existence, food was a meeting place, providing food and work for artists, and a. Beginning in 1962, matta clark studied architecture at cornell university, ithaca, new york. While it never became his profession, architecturewith its inextricable relationship to private and public space, urban development and decaybecame his medium and subject matter. A lot people have noticed that gordon was a great dancer i would say that gravity didnt effect him like it effects the rest of the worldhe danced through his all life in someway he was a very physical person but also very graceful. Gordon mattaclark s antiestablishment suspicion of the worlds of art and architecture, illustrated by his involvement in the anarchitecture group, led to some of the most innovative works of conceptual art of the 20th century.
In the early 1970s, mattaclark developed the idea of anarchitecture, which encompassed his interest in voids, gaps and leftover spaces. In 1971, inspired by their dinner party scene and the lack of eateries in soho, matta clark, his then girlfriend caroline goodden, and artist tina girouard opened food, an artist run restaurant on prince and wooster streets. Selected films and videos, dia center for the arts, new york gordon matta clark. Nevertheless, mattaclarks contributions to anarchitecture, sitespecific sculpture, and earthenvironmental art more broadly, as well as his pioneering efforts in the artist. Food was an important artistrun restaurant in soho, new york.
Jan 21, 2011 food restaurant was opened after 112 greene street in september 1971 by carol gooden and gordon matta clark. Matta clark s work, museum, at klaus kertess bykert gallery, was listed and illustrated on pages 45 of avalanche 1, fall 1970. Ir al contenido principal about macba support for the museum become a friend tickets english castellano. The last of these offers one of the more illuminating peeks into the joyful daily life of 1970s bohemia by way of a 60minute video matta clark recorded at food, his iconic semicommunal. In gordon matta clark s sculptures, the performative act of dereliction and documentation were as intrinsic to the work as the social themes it articulated. Gordon mattaclarks office baroque is closely linked to the story of the founding. Like his father, the surrealist painter roberto sebastian matta echaurren, gordon mattaclark studied to be an architect.
A central figure of the downtown new york art scene in the 1970s, gordon mattaclark 19431978 pioneered a radical approach to art making that directly engaged the urban environment and the communities within it. Dating from 1971 to 1977, his most prolific and vital period, his film and video works include documents of major pieces in new york, paris and antwerp, and are focused on three areas. File consists of photographs by cosmos andrew sarchiapone, taken in 1972 and printed in 2006, of scenes at food, the soho restaurant founded by gordon matta clark and his friends. Feb 23, 2007 property, matta clark seemed to be saying, can have its own metabolism again, the food analogy. The restaurant, essentially the first in soho, was run by artists and served mostly artists, with the cooking itself becoming a performance of sorts. Property, matta clark seemed to be saying, can have its own metabolism again, the food analogy.
It was the sister space in many ways the same core members of 112 were involved with food such as tina girouard who had brought southern cajun cooking to this community. The specificity of these plots is to be tiny residual areas, often inaccessible parcels of land escaped for some reasons to the rules of the grid and the interests of the real estates. Goodden was a sometimes photographer and dancer with trisha browns nascent company. When he sawed a house in half splitting, 1974, he was commenting on the dissolution of the american family. Owned and operated by caroline goodden, food was designed and built largely by matta clark, who also organized art events and performances there. Dec 05, 2016 everything matta clark did was art, including cooking and eating. Jane crawford dancing with gordon matta clark radio papesse interview on. Gordon mattaclark, splitting, and the unmade house the. In 1971 mattaclark, carol goodden, and tina girouard cofounded food, a restaurant.
Food was founded by artists carol goodden, tina girouard and gordon matta clark. Starting in the summer of 1973, artist gordon mattaclark purchased fifteen lots in the city of new york, fourteen in queens and one in staten island. This documentary shows images of the daily bustle in a restaurant located in soho, new york, called food, which was founded in the fall of 1971 by gordon. His famed building cuts involved carefully cleaving through part or all of an abandoned structure, removing. The whitney celebrates the lost public art of gordon matta. Courtesy the estate of gordon matta clark and david zwirner, new yorklondon. Gordon mattaclark splitting 1974 not on view mattaclark received formal training as an architect at cornell university, where he studied with colin rowe, a preeminent theorist of architectural modernism. Includes bibliographic data, information about the author of the ebook, description of the ebook and other if such information is available. Gordon matta clark s thoroughly unique artistic project was a radical investigation of architecture, deconstruction, space, and urban environments.
Experience becomes the object collects five essays and ten individual interviews with various friends and family members of mattaclarkas. Gordon mattaclark vollstandiger familienname gordon roberto echaurren matta. Other individuals who were involved with food included suzanne harris and rachel lew. Filmmaker aung min surveys the past decades key artists and works. Art cards text in action english and spanish edition. Gordon mattaclarks indelible influence on architecture. Education 196263 french literature, sorbonne university, paris, france 196368 b. Download pdf gordon matta clark free online new books.
This revealing book looks at the groundbreaking work of gordon mattaclark 19431978, whose socially conscious practice blurred the boundaries between contemporary art and architecture. Myanmar boasts a rich history of moviemaking and moviegoing, a narrative in which documentaries continue to play an important role, both culturally and politically. Gordon mattaclark, centre for contemporary art, glasgow. Its full of documents, sketches, films images and biographical information. Anarchitect exhibition and catalogue are made possible by the henry luce foundation, national endowment for the arts, graham foundation for advanced studies in the fine arts, blue rider group at morgan stanley, david zwirner, estate of gordon mattaclark, and furthermore. From 19711973, gordon matta clark opened and operated a reastaurant, food, in soho, manhattan. Gordon mattaclark was an american artist and architect known for his largescale projects. Gordon mattaclark office baroque by manuel leon fanjul. Through his many projectsincluding largescale architectural interventions in which he physically cut through buildings slated for demolition matta clark developed a singular. Im oktober 1971 eroffnete gordon mattaclark in soho manhattan gemeinsam mit.
He studied architecture and graduated from cornell university in 1968, then returned to his hometown the following year. Artist artist group gordon matta clark title food year 1972 category video, analog video material technique betacam sp, bw, mono, original format. June 22, 1943 august 27, 1978 was an american artist best known for his sitespecific artworks he made in the 1970s. Gordon matta clark circusthe caribbean orange 1978 not on view matta clark received formal training as an architect at cornell university, where he studied with colin rowe, a preeminent theorist of architectural modernism. Now, some of those iconic cuts can be seen in gordon matta clark. What links here related changes upload file special pages permanent link.
This newly assembled work is a rare document of a 1976 matta clark performance in berlin. Drawing on architecture, grey room 18, 2005, pp 1081. So depending on what exactly you are searching, you will be able to choose ebooks. Splitting, cutting, writing, drawing, eating gordon matta. Gordon matta clark above and below april 2 may 4, 20 gordon matta clark city slivers, 1976 16mm film, 15 min, color, silent dimensions variable with installation gmctf08 relic from conical intersect medieval statues hands, n. Gordon mattaclark june 22, 1943 august 27, 1978 was an american artist best known for his sitespecific artworks he made in the 1970s. White cubeblack box, films, generali foundation, vienna catalogue 1995 gordon matta clark. The restaurant food opened in new york city in october 1971 at 127 prince street, at the corner of wooster. I just discovered the incredible gordon matta clark s arquitectural interventions a few months ago, and this book is the best way to enter into his particular way of understanding buildings and materials.
The 20192020 out of the box exhibition series is dedicated to the works of trained architect and conceptual artist gordon matta clark, whose writings, photographs, films, correspondence, and select artworks were produced between 1969 and 1978 and donated to the cca by the estate of gordon matta clark. Gordon mattaclarks food related work by catherine morris. As art dematerialized and moved out of the domain of the gallery in the late 1960s and early 70s, photographic and filmic records gradually came to supplant the events that they recorded. Jan 11, 2018 food 197174 near the shows entrance, situated specifically in the museums cafe, a 60minute video by mattaclark records mealtime at food, the relaxed semicommunal restaurant, and. Its use changes, along with its value, depending on what we choose to make of it. Gordon mattaclark en anarchitecture ghent university. Gordon mattaclarks legacy, though widely influential, is less extensive than it might be had the artist not died at the age of 35, a casualty of pancreatic cancer. The gordon matta clark archive is held at the canadian centre for architecture in montreal, and includes the artists personal correspondence, notebooks, drawings, photographs, slides, films, as well as other archival material documenting his life and work.
The 20192020 out of the box exhibition series is dedicated to the works of trained architect and conceptual artist gordon matta clark, whose writings, photographs, films, correspondence, and select artworks were produced between 1969 and 1978 and donated to the cca by the estate of gordon matta clark in 2011. Sharp then encouraged gordon matta clark to move to new york city where sharp continued to introduce him to members of the new york art world. Mattaclarks body of work includes film, video and photographic records of his interventions as they are performed, as. This documentary program looks at a landmark collaborative project by the artist gordon mattaclark that address ideas of social space evident in the art of participation. In the spring of 1974, gordon matta clark approached his dealers, holly and horace solomon, and asked. Everything matta clark did was art, including cooking and eating. Feb 21, 2003 a central figure in new yorks art scene in the 1970s, the sculptor and performer gordon matta clark took neglected urban spaces and turned them into public art. Gordon matta clark, homeless man near the brooklyn bridge, 1971. Gordon mattaclark 1943 1978 was born and raised in new york city. It was conceived as a single piece of conceptual art, a restaurant run by artists for artists and a meeting place for the exchange of ideas and collaboration. See more ideas about food, gordon matta clark, sushi design. Using a practice that fused conceptual arts critique of cultural institutionalization.
Food 1972 documents the legendary soho artists cooperative that served organic food and offered a space for discussions and performances, playing an important role in. Food was a place where artists in soho, especially those who were later involved in avalanche. A few months before the artists carol goodden and gordon matta clark opened their restaurantslashart installation, food, on the corner of prince and wooster streets in new york city in the fall of 1971, they roasted a pig beneath the brooklyn bridge. May 10, 20 tina girouard, carol goodden and gordon matta clark outside food, before its opening in 1971. Mattaclarks political awareness was formed early in his life under the influence of his father, surrealist painter roberto matta, a member of the com munist party since the 1930s with a lifelong commitment to social causes, which can be seen in the explosive battle of forms that permeate his paintings. His famed building cuts involved carefully cleaving through part or all of an abandoned structure, removing sections of floors, ceilings, and walls. The zkm dedicates itself to contemporary developments within art and society in all media formats and systems. Food documents the legendary soho restaurant and artists cooperative food, which opened in 1971. Find an indepth biography, exhibitions, original artworks for sale, the latest news, and sold auction prices. Owned and operated by caroline goodden, food was designed and built largely by mattaclark, who also organized art events and performances there.
Even at this early juncture in his career, demonstrated a. Tina girouard, carol goodden and gordon matta clark outside food, before its opening in 1971. After completing a degree in architecture at cornell university, mattaclark returned to his home city of new york. Courtesy of the estate of gordon matta clark david zwirner 3 splitting 1974 matta clark may be best known for his building cuts, in which he sliced structures like loaves of bread. Like dean, he was a charismatic rebel who upended conventional notions about his craft, inspired countless younger artists, died at an early age, and left cultlike legions of fans who mourn his loss to this day. Once thriving, this town had lost its luster by the 1970s. As a social space, meeting ground and ongoing art project for the emergent downtown artists community, food was a landmark that still resonates in the history and mythology of soho in the 1970s. Being back on the same street with gordon was coming full circle, an unbelievable continuum. New york needs gordon mattaclark now more than ever citylab. Gordon matta clark, the teatrino di palazzo grassi will screen a selection of.
This intersection of chance procedures and performance using food as a. Gordon mattaclarks antiestablishment suspicion of the worlds of art and architecture, illustrated by his involvement in the anarchitecture group, led to some of the most innovative works of conceptual art of the 20th century. Gordon mattaclark was an artist of the 1970s, known for his sitespecific works involving sculptural interventions in architecture and urban space. Over the course of the meals various documents, such as receipts. Gordon matta clark gordon matta clark and maria casanova ivam centre julio gonzalez, 1993. Unlike most architects, who would be inclined to renovate old buildings or replace them with new ones, gordon mattaclark used his training in architecture to dismantle buildingsincluding a derelict house in niagara falls, new yorkand transform them into works of art. Nov 15, 2017 gordon matta clark was intensely political.
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