Splitting, 1974
The impact that Gordon Matta-Clark's work has is incredible. He forces you to really look, to see something you thought you were familiar with in a completely new way, he plays with perceptions. Each "building cut" work seems to have been approached with a very clear decision which creates a monumental work. The actions have a violence and deliberateness but also a playfulness. The physical labour of the construction (deconstruction?) creates challenges both in the process of making and in viewing. (And the idea that most of these works were demolished soon after completion.) It is the physicality of the building cuts that makes them so amazing to me - a sense of disbelief and enchantment at seeing something so structural changed so dramatically.
Link to New York Times review of retrospective in Whitney Museum of American Art.
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