Gordon Matta-Clark

Gordon Matta-Clark (born Gordon Roberto Echaurren Matta; 22 June 1943 – 27 August 1978) was an American artist best known for his site-specific artworks he made in the 1970s.

Works

• Films on UbuWeb

Publications

• with Carol Goodden, Tina Girouard, Food, Cologne: Walther König, and Manchester: Cornerhouse, 2000, 48 pp. (English)/(German)

Literature

• Pamela M. Lee, Object to Be Destroyed: The Work of Gordon Matta-Clark, MIT Press, 1999, 280 pp.
• James Attlee, Lisa Le Feuvre, Gordon Matta-Clark: The Space Between, Portland: Nazraeli Press, 2003.
• Stephen Walker, "Gordon Matta-Clark: Drawing on Architecture", Grey Room 18, 2005, pp 108-131.
• James Attlee, "Towards Anarchitecture: Gordon Matta-Clark and Le Corbusier", Tate Papers 7, Spring 2007.
• Stephen Walker, Gordon Matta-Clark: Art, Architecture and the Attack on Modernism, London: IB Tauris, 2009.
• Éric Alliez, "Gordon Matta-Clark: ‘Somewhere Outside the Law’", trans. Robin Mackay, Journal of Visual Culture 15:3, 2016, pp 317-333.
• Mark Wigley, James Graham, Cutting Matta-Clark: The Anarchitecture Project, Lars Müller and GSAPP Books, 2017, 400 pp.

Films

• My Summer '77 with Gordon Matta-Clark, dir. Cherica Convents, 2014, 30 min. [1]

See also

• Anarchitecture

Links

• Gordon Matta-Clark collection, Canadian Centre for Architecture