GORDON MATTA-CLARK_GALERIE SHULTE BERLIN

On 9th September I went to the opening of Gordon Matta-Clark's exhibition  at Shulte  Gallery in Berlin.  It's a strange exhibition, but the Matta-Clark's work is very interesting.
Gordon Matta-Clark (1943 - 1978, New York) was a conceptual artist best known for his so-called “building cuts,” a series of site-specific projects, which he carried out in the late 1970s involving the dissection of abandoned buildings.
Matta-Clark never practiced architecture, but instead devised "anarchitecture," an alternative use of buildings. The films and photo collages he made of his “building cuts” dovetail with the experimental, disorienting quality of the architectural cuts, likewise constituting a denunciation of the function of architecture.
The Notion of Mutable Space is both a fundamental element and a postulation in Gordon Matta-Clark’s thinking. It is also the title of the comprehensive exhibition at Galerie Thomas Schulte with over 100 original works, which broaches the subject of Matta-Clark’s architectural concept and how it finds expression in his oeuvre and practice.
Until November 4, 2017
GALERIE THOMAS SCHULTE GMBH / CHARLOTTENSTR. 24 / D–10117 BERLIN

Garbage Wall, 1970

Garbage Wall, 1970

Garbage Wall, 1970