Lot 4280: Matta-Clark, Gordon: Intervention, Paris 1975

Photographer: Shigeo Anzai (b. 1939). "Intervention" work by Gordon Matta-Clark, Paris. 1975. Vintage gelatin silver print. 20,5 x 32 cm (31,5 x 36,5 cm). Signed and editioned A.P. by the photographer in black felt-tip pen as well as title printed in lower margin.
Gordon Matta-Clark is considered one of the most important and influential American conceptual artists of the Deconstructivism movement and he became especially known for his "Cuttings" and "Splittings" in the 1970s. These were cuts he made with a chainsaw through ceilings, floors, facades or whole buildings. He also removed large building parts ("Interventions") as seen in the image offered here - not always with the permission of the owner. These temporary artworks are only preserved on film and photographs which are collected and exhibited in international museums such as the Guggenheim Museum, New York, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, the Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland. - A few light handling crease marks, otherwise in very good condition.
Lit.: Pamela M Lee: Object to Be Destroyed: The Work of Gordon Matta-Clark, Cambridge 2000, pp. 10-33.