Cuts: Video Works by Gordon Matta-Clark

The son of the Chilean surrealist Roberto Matta and Anne Clark, and a godson of Marcel Duchamp, Gordon Robert Matta-Echaurren studied architecture at Cornell from 1962 to 1968, spending a year at the Sorbonne in Paris studying French literature. In 1971, he changed his name to Gordon Matta-Clark, adopting his mother’s last name. Matta-Clark used his training in architecture as a base for his artistic explorations of space. He was an extremely prolific artist in a career barely spanning a decade that combined minimalist, conceptual, and performance practices. He is best remembered for site-specific projects known as “building cuts.” These architectural interventions of direct cuts into actual buildings scheduled for demolition now exist only as sculptural fragments, photographs, drawings, collages, and film and video documentations. Read more.

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