Full-Scale Gordon Matta-Clark Retrospective Opens
Gordon Matta-Clark, Office Baroque, 1977, Building fragment: parquet wood flooring, drywall, and wood, with silver dye bleach print (Cibachrome). Fragment: 15 3/4 x 59 x 90 1/2 (40 x 149.9 x 229.9); print: 30 x 20 (76.2 x 50.8). The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; partial and promised gift of Blake Byrne. © Estate of Gordon Matta-Clark. Courtesy The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
NEW YORK.- The first full-scale retrospective in twenty years of the work of Gordon Matta-Clark will open at the Whitney Museum of American Art on February 22, 2007. Gordon Matta-Clark: “You Are the Measure” – which travels subsequently to the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles – includes Matta-Clark’s major works and presents numerous projects. The exhibition's curator is Elisabeth Sussman, Curator and Sondra Gilman Curator of Photography at the Whitney.... plus sur http://www.artdaily.com/section/news/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=19337
Gordon Matta-Clark, Bronx Floors: Threshold (Boston Post Road, Bronx), 1973, Building fragment: wood, plaster, and linoleum, 29 1/2 x 41 1/2 x 11 1/2 in. Collection of Anita Grossman Solomon. © Estate of Gordon Matta-Clark. Photograph by Sheldan C. Collins.
