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8/21/2018

Matta-Clark, Gordon - MOMA Tokyo

This exhibition (19.06.2018 - 17.09.2018) presents 200 items including sculptures, videos, photographs, drawings and related materials to offer a full-scale retrospective of Matta-Clark’s art. Although his career was cut short to ten years by his untimely death at the age of thirty-five, his multifaceted activities ranged from art, architecture and street culture to FOOD, an artist-run restaurant.
One of the largest three-dimensional works in his renowned “building cuts” series in which he cut buildings, Splitting: Four Corners is coming to Japan for the first time. Enjoy the invaluable work that has seldom left the USA.
Matta-Clark lived in the 1970s when the world economy began explosive growth, and in New York City, an experimental site for capitalism. There, his activities centered on exploration into ways for art to help create a rich community. Today, here in Tokyo that is going to begin to shrink ahead of the rest of the world, Matta-Clark’s buoyant, cool and poetic ideas will provide various clues for each of us to think about what we can do now to live a richer life. (Text: MOMA Tokyo)