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Gordon Matta-Clark: Open House

By (artist) Gordon Matta-Clark, Text by Lydia Yee, Text by Thierry Davila, Text by Sophie Costes

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A new publication spotlights Gordon Matta-Clarkâ€™s only extant architectural piece In 1972, Gordon Matta-Clark (1943â€“78) installed a dumpster on the street between 98 and 112 Greene Street in New Yorkâ€™s SoHo neighborhood, an architectural artwork he called Open House. Matta-Clark used discarded, scavenged materialsâ€”old pieces of wood, doorsâ€”to subdivide the space inside the dumpster, creating corridors and small rooms within the container. Dancers and artists moved around the space, their pedestrian movements activating the sculpture and captured in a Super-8 film of the piece. Matta-Clark is best known for his building cuts and architectural interventions. Because of the nature of this work and its contextâ€”sited in spaces abandoned or slated for demolitionâ€”Matta-Clarkâ€™s â€œanarchitectureâ€ was almost necessarily ephemeral, surviving as only documentation and sculptural sections. Open House (1972) is the only still-extant architectural piece by Matta-Clark. Gordon Matta-Clark: Open House is the first publication to focus on this crucial piece by the artist, using it as a way into his complex body of work. Featuring contributions from Sophie Costes, Thierry Davila and Lydia Yee, this volume takes a historical and theoretical approach to Open House and Matta-Clarkâ€™s entire oeuvre.