Cutting Matta-Clark: The Anarchitecture Project

The Anarchitecture group show of March 1974 at 112 Greene Street gallery in New York has been the subject of much discussion and debate, despite a lack of documentation. Cutting Matta-Clark explores the group as a collective research seminar, using interviews, art cards, and images from a video to investigate their work.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 400 pages
Publication date: 31 March 2018
Publisher: Lars Muller Publishers

Of the numerous exhibitions held at the renowned 112 Greene Street gallery, an artistic epicenter of New York's downtown scene in the 1970s, the Anarchitecture group show of March 1974 has generated the most enduring discourse, despite a complete lack of documentation about it. Anarchitecture has evolved into a foundational myth, yet it remains to be fully comprehended. Originating from a series of meetings organized by Gordon Matta-Clark and reflecting his longstanding interest in architecture, the Anarchitecture exhibition was envisioned as an anonymous group statement in photographs, exploring the intersection of art and building. However, did this event truly occur? It exists solely through oblique archival traces and the recollections of the participants. Cutting Matta-Clark delves into the Anarchitecture group as a collective research seminar, conducting extensive interviews with the key protagonists and assembling a comprehensive dossier of all available evidence. This dossier encompasses a collection of Matta-Clark's aphoristic art cards, the 96 photographs produced by various participants for potential inclusion in the exhibition, and images from a recently unearthed video of Matta-Clark's renowned bus trip to witness Splitting in Englewood, New Jersey.

Weight: 1242g
Dimension: 172 x 242 x 35 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9783037784273