Gordon Matta-Clark
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Title
Gordon Matta-Clark
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First Name
Gordon
Surname or Business Name
Matta-Clark
Years Affiliated
2019
Birth Date
1943
Birthplace
United States
Death Date
1978
Occupation
Artist
Biographical Text
Gordon Matta-Clark originally trained as an architect, was one of the most influential post-war artists. He is best known for subverting architecture and urban landscape with geometric interventions of “building cuts,” converting them into gravity-defying and disorientating walk-through sculptures. His work is seen not only as a rejection of the architectural profession but also as new modes of contemporary artistic expression. “Anarchitecture,” which became the name of an artist group of which he was a member, and the title of a 1974 exhibition from the group’s discussion around the dematerialisation of the art object and activation of space and place, was attributed to him.
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Citation
“Gordon Matta-Clark,” NTU CCA Singapore Digital Archive, accessed April 18, 2024, https://ntuccasingapore.omeka.net/items/show/749.