age of thirty-five.
Born in New York and trained in architecture, Gordon Matta-Clark is most famous for his slicing through faÁades, walls and floors of derelict buildings. This 'deconstructing' gesture, provocative and extreme, turns architecture into astonishing sculptures, where the mass of the building is entwined with the light and air that penetrate it. Matta-Clark's interventions are always grounded in social or political convictions. Some of his projects include opening a restaurant (Food, 1971)
in the then-neglected district of SoHo in New York, purchasing at auction fractions of unusable urban land
in New York (Reality Properties: Fake Estates, 1973), dispensing oxygen to passersby in the streets of
New York from a self-made cart (Fresh Air Cart, 1972), and other visionary urban projects that he conceived
as a founding member of the New York-based Anarchitecture group. His practice remains one of the most unique, unequalled, and hugely influential of the past decades.
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