http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/09/the_mattaclark_famil That is a Cibachrome print taken by Gordon Matta-Clark. It shows two views of his 1977 masterwork, Office Baroque, for which he carved an interlocking series of curves, spheres, and arabesques into all five floors of an abandoned office building in Antwerp, carving a careful plan of shapes day and night under the radar of the authorities and with only one constant assistant. The following year, Matta-Clark was dead of pancreatic cancer, at age 35. His practice of slicing buildings in half and into abstract shapes, devoting himself to structures nobody wanted, was something best, and only really fully,... Copyright 2007 Thu, 21 Sep 2006 10:16:29 -0800 Thu, 21 Sep 2006 10:54:04 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Poetic writing about a beautiful and poignant installation. Your words bring Matta-Clark to life again.

]]> Linda http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/09/the_mattaclark_famil#c466931 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/09/the_mattaclark_famil#c466931 Arts Thu, 21 Sep 2006 10:54:04 -0800