Browsing Category: anarchitecture

  • Gordon Matta-Clark, Reality Properties: Fake Estates (1973)

    Reality can seem a debatable term. But is worth considering that the word came into use in the 1540s as a legal reference to a fixed property. Of course, the word realty still means possession. So you could make a case for Fake Estates being a realist artwork par excellence. Because Matta-Clark took ownership of …

    March 11, 2011

  • Gordon Matta-Clark, Splitting (1974)

    Novelist Philip Roth is known for having said: “When a writer is born into a family, that family is finished.” And this work by Gordon Matta-Clark suggests a comparable model for artists. The house which he literally saws in two is described in a caption to the film of the event as a “typical family …

    March 6, 2011