I just posted this in the "Guess Who" thread about his father Roberto Matta.
Matta’s son Gordon Matta-Clark (mother Anne Clark, an American artist) died very young only 35 years old. He was an American artist best known for his site-specific artworks he made in the 1970s.
End of the seventies, one year before he died of pancreatic cancer he was in Antwerp working on a project (Office Baroque) I had the good fortune to visit before it was torn down. I had just started my graphic studies and one of my fellow students was also interested in architecture. He knew about the project, so we went to visit with a group. Rather dangerous if I think about it now, but we were all teenagers, so rather fearless. No accidents happened and it gave us some very cool pics.
After Gordon Matta-Clark’s death Office baroque was the only artwork of his still in existence and some people had the idea of trying to preserve the house and combining the site with a new to-build museum for modern art. Artworks from a hundred artists were donated to form the start of the collection. But then one day the building promoter tore down the house. The collected artworks became then the start for the MuHKA (museum voor hedendaagse kunst Antwerpen - museum for contemporary art Antwerp)
Matta’s son Gordon Matta-Clark (mother Anne Clark, an American artist) died very young only 35 years old. He was an American artist best known for his site-specific artworks he made in the 1970s.
End of the seventies, one year before he died of pancreatic cancer he was in Antwerp working on a project (Office Baroque) I had the good fortune to visit before it was torn down.
I had just started my graphic studies and one of my fellow students was also interested in architecture. He knew about the project, so we went to visit with a group. Rather dangerous if I think about it now, but we were all teenagers, so rather fearless.
No accidents happened and it gave us some very cool pics.
After Gordon Matta-Clark’s death Office baroque was the only artwork of his still in existence and some people had the idea of trying to preserve the house and combining the site with a new to-build museum for modern art. Artworks from a hundred artists were donated to form the start of the collection.
But then one day the building promoter tore down the house.
The collected artworks became then the start for the MuHKA (museum voor hedendaagse kunst Antwerpen - museum for contemporary art Antwerp)
MuHKA, Antwerp.
This is a link for a trailer for a documentary about the project:
https://youtu.be/mXTr6S0ctWo