Matta-Clark’s Anarchitechture
Siyu’s recent post about the scaffolding exhibition in New York made me think of the work of Gordon Matta-Clark, a New York architect-turned-artist active in the 1970s. His work is made up of (largely illegally) “cut up” buildings; very large-scale and seemingly impossible holes or chunks torn out of derelict facades, smashed windows…
Matta-Clark described the work as commentary on mutable space, surprise, ownership, and an opportunity to “transform space into a state of mind.” I encourage everyone to have a little image search, and a quick look at this detailed Tate Paper by James Attlee.
James Attlee, ‘Towards Anarchitecture: Gordon Matta-Clark and Le Corbusier’, in Tate Papers, no.7, Spring 2007, https://www.tate.org.uk/research/publications/tate-papers/07/towards-anarchitecture-gordon-matta-clark-and-le-corbusier
Contributed by EveliinaKuitunen on 17/02/2020
