Gordon Matta-Clark: Open House |
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Artist:
| Matta-Clark, Gordon |
Text by:
| Yee, Lydia Davila, Thierry Costes, Sophie |
ISBN: | 978-1-942884-47-7 |
Publication Date: | Apr 2020 |
Publisher: | D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | AUD $59.99 |
Book Description:
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A new publication spotlights Gordon Matta-Clark's only extant architectural piece
In 1972, Gordon Matta-Clark (1943-78) installed a dumpster on the street between 98 and 112 Greene Street in New York's SoHo neighborhood, an architectural artwork he called Open House. Matta-Clark used discarded, scavenged materials--old pieces of wood, doors--to subdivide the space inside the dumpster, creating corridors and small rooms within the container. Dancers and artists moved...
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A new publication spotlights Gordon Matta-Clark's only extant architectural piece
In 1972, Gordon Matta-Clark (1943-78) installed a dumpster on the street between 98 and 112 Greene Street in New York's SoHo neighborhood, an architectural artwork he called Open House. Matta-Clark used discarded, scavenged materials--old pieces of wood, doors--to subdivide the space inside the dumpster, creating corridors and small rooms within the container. Dancers and artists moved around the space, their pedestrian movements activating the sculpture and captured in a Super-8 film of the piece.
Matta-Clark is best known for his building cuts and architectural interventions. Because of the nature of this work and its context--sited in spaces abandoned or slated for demolition--Matta-Clark's "anarchitecture" was almost necessarily ephemeral, surviving as only documentation and sculptural sections. Open House(1972) is the only still-extant architectural piece by Matta-Clark.
Gordon Matta-Clark: Open Houseis the first publication to focus on this crucial piece by the artist, using it as a way into his complex body of work. Featuring contributions from Sophie Costes, Thierry Davila and Lydia Yee, this volume takes a historical and theoretical approach to Open Houseand Matta-Clark's entire oeuvre.