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• gravitymax - Aug 15 2007 | architecture, art, artist

  Quoted: Unusually among artists of his generation, Matta-Clark was trained as an architect at Cornell University, where he was taught by some of the most eminent architectural theorists of the era and from where he graduated with a BArch in 1968. Recent scholarship reveals him to have been a far from indifferent student.1 His subsequent career as an artist was brief, cut short by his death from cancer, aged only thirty-five. He is best known for those works in which he dissected existing buildings, slicing into and opening them up, using the simplest of means and converting them into gravity-defying, profoundly disorientating walk-through sculptures.

  • petersigrist - Aug 15 2007
    

    great find! i love Gordon Matta-Clark. didn't know he studied architecture at Cornell.

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