Gordon Matta Clark 

Today I´m going to talk to you about one of the artist that I most admire. Gordon Matta Clark (New York, 1943 - 1978) was an American artist, with Chilean ancestry. He explore in some kind of experiment architecture and interventions. One of his most famous interventions was the "cut buildings" He has been called "the only deconstructivist architect". He works whit the decomposition as a entropologic process of elements dismantling: walls, floors, windows and doors.  

     

His parents was artist too, his mother was  Anne Clark, and his father was the famous Chilean surrealist artist Roberto Matta. He study architecture in the Ithaca University in New York, and literature in Paris, but he decides to be an artist and non perform as an architect.   

Matta Clark uses a different kind of format to document his work, including shooting, videos, an photography.  

His works included actuation, recycling, and works about the spot and texture. Also, he uses different kinds of "words games" with the intention to re-conceptualize the roles and preconceived social relationships (even people and architecture). 

He was situated in the hermeneutics and marxist ideology that proposes that the transformations of the citizen organizations are a modern project of emancipation, that functions with actions of convulsive beauty and times of crisis. He wanted to undermine the bases of the late capitalism by means of questioning the concept of property. Weird right? 

His investigations with his architecture group proposes things about history and philosophy that have a strong connection with the property and identity, also thing like the relation among the concept of property and the conditions of the use of that, the consume and the transformations of that in waste.