The Canadian Centre for Architecture?s (CCA) 2019-2020 Out of the Box project examines writings, photographs, films, correspondence, and selects artworks of trained architect and conceptual artist, Gordon Matta-Clark.
Donated to the CCA by the Estate of Gordon Matta-Clark, the multidisciplinary artist?s collection is a fundamental repository of documents and materials connected to finished projects and unrealized pieces.
Gordon Matta-Clark in Sag Harbor, New York, 1976?1977. PHCON2002:016:005:046, Canadian Centre for Architecture Collection, gift of Estate of Gordon Matta-Clark. Estate of Gordon Matta-Clark
While Matta-Clark?s works were a clear product of his time and environment, the themes he addresses in relation to architecture and urbanism correspond with today?s cultural and societal climate. The architect?s conceptual art reflected neglect, speculation, questions of access, corporatization and gentrification. Using the CCA collection as an active tool to use its holdings to challenge the role of architecture today, three curators, Yann Chateigné, Hila Peleg and Kitty Scott, were invited by Out of the Box to produce thematic interpretations that expand the study of the Matta-Clark?s practice.
In the first exhibition, titled Material Thinking, curator and art historian Yann Chateigné sheds light on lesser-known aspects of Matta-Clark?s practice while reflecting on his diverse personal library.
Credit line: Collection Centre Canadien d’Architecture / Canadian C...