Gordon Matta-Clark
Conical Intersect
by Bruce Jenkins

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Author(s)

Bruce Jenkins

Publication, year

London : Afterall Books, 2011

Scope

102 Pages, illustrated, 21 cm.

ISBN

9781846380730

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Gordon Matta-Clark's Conical Intersect (1975) was a torqued, spiralling 'cut' into two derelict seventeenth-century Paris buildings adjacent to the construction site of the Centre Pompidou. In this book, Bruce Jenkins examines Matta-Clark's 'non-u-ment', looking closely at the artist's proposals, working process, various forms of documentation, and the dialogue begun by Matta-Clark's decision to transform two abandoned buildings into an 'act of communication'. The text is accompanied by rarely seen photographs of the construction process taken by French artist Marc Petitjean.

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Person as subject

Gordon Matta-Clark

Location

Cabinet 5 - 4: Kunstenaars

Extra themes

Architecture and Art