In L'Echo, Johan-Frédérik Hel Guedj writes on the exhibition Gordon Matta-Clark.
The Patinoire royale celebrates its tenth anniversary with the American Gordon Matta-Clark (1943-1978), for the first time in Belgium since the "1968-1978" retrospective at the M HKA (Antwerp) in 1987. An architect of the margins between 1960 and 1970, son of Chilean Roberto Matta (a major Surrealist and Expressionist figure), he first experimented with a New York "land of demolition", mixing performance, conceptual and land art.
Curator Julien Frydman recalls the impact on generations of artists of his transformations of buildings destined for demolition into temporary monumental sculptures. His Bronx Floors series (1972), a dissection of abandoned buildings, survives with three photo collages of his vertiginous perspectives.
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