The US architect and conceptual artist Gordon Matta-Clark (1943-1978) was considered one of the most important figures in the New York art scene at the end of the 1960s and during the 1970s. His radical, innovative and socio-critical work is infused with social and ecological considerations, which Salzburg's Museum der Moderne aims to illuminate from 13 November 2021, providing new insights into Matta-Clark's artistic thinking. In collaboration with the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) in Montréal and the Generali Foundation in Vienna, the museum is presenting Out of the Box: Gordon Matta-Clark, a three-part research and exhibition series on the artist for the first time in Europe. The exhibition will explore sketchbooks, never-seen-before film footage, private photographs, project sketches and Matta-Clark's library. A selection of these documents will be made accessible to the public together with central works from both collections of the cooperation partners. The exhibition will be on view until 06 March 2022.
Gordon Matta-Clark, who was born Gordon Roberto Echaurren Matta on 22 June 1943 in New York, adopted his later artist name to distinguish himself from his father, the surrealist painter Roberto Matta. He graduated from the School of Architecture at Cornell University in Ithaca (NY) in 1968 and went on to make a name for himself as an architect and conceptual artist focusing on intervention and deconstruction. He became known to a broad public through his so-called »Building Cuts«, in which he cut and redesigned vacant buildings with sometimes rigorous gestures. With his art, he is also considered a pioneer for the architecture of deconstruction.
