Gordon Matta-Clark

Gordon Matta-Clark opens on February 2, 2008, exactly thirty years to the day when he completed his first Chicago work for the MCA, titled Circus or The Caribbean Orange. For this work, Matta-Clark carved large circular holes in the walls, ceilings, and floors of the four-story former MCA building. It was his last project before his early death in August of 1978.

This full-scale retrospective on Matta-Clark, son of Surrealist painter Roberto Matta, explores the remarkable breadth and radical nature of his work. Marrying the idea of art and architecture, Matta-Clark was interested in the idea of entropy, metamorphic gaps, and leftover/ambiguous space, what he called "Anarchitecture." He had come to see buildings, rooms, urban spaces, and places where people gather as situations in which his planned "interventions" could create something new.

Gordon Matta-Clark
"You are the Measure"