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Gordon Matta-Clark: Drawing on Architecture

Gordon Matta-Clark: Drawing on Architecture Gordon Matta-Clark. Reality Properties: Fake Estates (Maspeth Onion), 1973. Collage: 4 black-and-white photographs mounted on separate board, deed, map. Dimensions variable. All photographs courtesy of the Estate of Gordon Matta-Clark and David Zwirner Gallery, New York; © 2004 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York, and DACS, London. Gordon Matta-Clark: Drawing on Architecture STEPHEN WALKER Part I: Design Drawings At the Drawing Board; Architectural Representation and Abstract Space When a Measurement Doesn’t Work . . . a More Intimate Notion of Space Beginings [sic] . . . —Gordon Matta-Clark 1 I don’t know what the word “space” means. . . . I keep using it. But I’m not quite sure what it means. —Gordon Matta-Clark2 The artist Gordon Matta-Clark frequently expressed his interest in human experience that lay beyond objective measurement and was critical of attempts to restrict experience to that which could be measured. Following his training as an architect at Cornell in the 1960s, he was particularly concerned with architecture’s implication in the maintenance of this restrictive situation, and his subsequent artistic oeuvre contested this in a variety of ways. One enduring aspect of his work involved his redeployment of architectural drawing: although architects use a variety http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Grey Room MIT Press

Gordon Matta-Clark: Drawing on Architecture

Grey Room , Volume Winter 2005 (18) – Jan 1, 2005

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MIT Press
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© 2005 Grey Room, Inc. and Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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1526-3819
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1536-0105
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10.1162/1526381043320787
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Gordon Matta-Clark. Reality Properties: Fake Estates (Maspeth Onion), 1973. Collage: 4 black-and-white photographs mounted on separate board, deed, map. Dimensions variable. All photographs courtesy of the Estate of Gordon Matta-Clark and David Zwirner Gallery, New York; © 2004 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York, and DACS, London. Gordon Matta-Clark: Drawing on Architecture STEPHEN WALKER Part I: Design Drawings At the Drawing Board; Architectural Representation and Abstract Space When a Measurement Doesn’t Work . . . a More Intimate Notion of Space Beginings [sic] . . . —Gordon Matta-Clark 1 I don’t know what the word “space” means. . . . I keep using it. But I’m not quite sure what it means. —Gordon Matta-Clark2 The artist Gordon Matta-Clark frequently expressed his interest in human experience that lay beyond objective measurement and was critical of attempts to restrict experience to that which could be measured. Following his training as an architect at Cornell in the 1960s, he was particularly concerned with architecture’s implication in the maintenance of this restrictive situation, and his subsequent artistic oeuvre contested this in a variety of ways. One enduring aspect of his work involved his redeployment of architectural drawing: although architects use a variety

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Published: Jan 1, 2005

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