A New Leader Sep 13, 2008
Her major exhibitions at the San Diego museum included "Axis Mexico: Common Objects and Cosmopolitan Actions," "Transmission: The Art of Matta and Gordon Matta-Clark" and "Past in Reverse: Contemporary Art of East Asia.". "I know something of the scene here because I've been coming here for a long time," Hertz said during a visit to YBCA this week. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Top of the drops May 28, 2008
On the third sculpture court, overlooking Waterloo Bridge, the Slovenian artist Tobias Putrih has built one of his fanciful cinemas, in which one can watch films about artists such as Robert Smithson, Gordon Matta-Clark and Gregor Schneider (the latter's buildings are more psycho than anything at the Hayward; he's one of the missing ghosts at the feast). The idea for this show, and its title, come from a book of photographs by the late Martin Kippenberger, who made fake subway station entrances... (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
Freitas follows the rabbit down the hole Mar 31, 2008
So, Freitas explains, the show's unofficial epigram No.thing works borrowed from the title of a work by the late Gordon Matta-Clark is ironic. Things are working well for him. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
Little-known S.F. gem may be lost Jan 7, 2008
"Once a glass window, now with a sheet of copper over it, with a recording in the voice of an auctioneer describing the view from that window. At this point, unless a Gordon Matta-Clark is pulled, it can't be extracted from the house.". Matta-Clark (1943-1978), another artist frequently mentioned in connection with Ireland's work, first made his name by cutting sections out of condemned buildings, without asking permission. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Sports)
Gordon Matta-Clark: You Are the Measure Sep 17, 2007
The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) presents Gordon Matta-Clark: You Are the Measure, a full-scale retrospective of one of the key figures to emerge in the generation of artists that followed minimalism. The son of surrealist painter Roberto Matta Echaurren, Gordon Matta-Clark (194378) produced an oeuvre of remarkable breadth, incorporating spatial, social, and psychological experiences ... Gordon Matta-Clarks work, especially his building cuts, has exerted a profound influence on... (AbsoluteArts.com)
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Gordon Matta-Clark: You Are the Measure - Museum of Contemporary Art, LA - absolutearts ... "Gordon Matta-Clark: You Are the Measure" 2007-09-16 until 2008-01-07 Los Angeles, CA, USA ... The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) presents Gordon Matta-Clark: You Are the Measure, a full-scale retrospective of one of the key figures to emerge in the generation of artists that followed minimalism. (AbsoluteArts.com)
SFMOMA's Neal Benezra balances art and money Sep 7, 2007
New acquisitions made during Benezra's tenure - of works by Gordon Matta-Clark, Hans Haacke, William Kentridge, Kiki Smith - do not rock even the art public as do names such as Mark Rothko, Robert Rauschenberg, Rene Magritte and Piet Mondrian, collection boosters from the late '90s ... Major acquisitions: Ann Hamilton's "Indigo Blue," now on view; key works by Dan Flavin, William Kentridge, Gordon Matta-Clark, Hans Haacke. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Galleries: Daniel Mendel-Black's colorful abstractions at Modernism Aug 12, 2007
The collages make obvious Schramm's debt to the "anarchitecture" of Gordon Matta-Clark (1943-1978), which has enjoyed rising influence recently. Little residue of Matta-Clark's projects survives in physical form, though SFMOMA owns an important example. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Art Exhibit: Photography by Children of Migrant Farm Workers Jul 4, 2007
Developing Art through both local and international experiments, the Gallery has featured work by widely known contemporary artists such as John Baldesarri, Reinke Dijkstra, Gordon Matta-Clark, Max Neuhaus, Pipilotti Rist, and Superflex. For more information visit: | | Contact: Jane Crowe, Program Development Coordinator, Telamon Corporation Telephone: 1-800-825-9724, ext. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Underground art resurfaces Jun 25, 2007
Gordon Matta-Clark, its founder, encouraged patrons to wear remnants of their dinner out the door. "In New York we're always tearing places down and eradicating everything that went before," says Linda Yablonsky, an art critic and novelist who first suggested the plaque tribute. (USA Today -- News)
Venice Biennale Jun 15, 2007
A near second, across the gardens, is Poland, where Monika Sosnowska has somehow shoehorned the huge twisted armature of a hypothetical building into that nation's whitewashed pavilion, recalling earlier coups of unlikely architecture by Gordon Matta-Clark and Robert Smithson. Cogitating supposedly on bygone utopias and Communism's fall, it impresses mostly as a logistical feat and was one of the few large-scale sculptural gambits that worked. (International Herald Tribune)
