{"id":1201,"title":"Gordon Matta-Clark: Anarchitectuur [Gordon Matta-Clark: Anarchitecture]","date_begin":"2012-10-05T00:00:00.000+02:00","date_end":"2013-01-20T00:00:00.000+01:00","location":{"readable":"Antwerp","latitude":null,"longitude":null},"assets":{"poster":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/012/510/large/Matta-Clark_color_slide55.jpg?1348040592","poster_credits":"(c)image: ICC Archive "},"translations":[{"locale":"en","name":"Gordon Matta-Clark: Anarchitectuur [Gordon Matta-Clark: Anarchitecture]","short_description":"In 2012 is het 25 jaar geleden dat het Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen zijn deuren voor het publiek opende. We vieren dit met een collectiepresentatie die bestaat uit vijf tentoonstellingen van referentiekunstenaars in onze collectie: Gordon Matta-Clark.","description":"[GORDON MATTA-CLARK](http://ensembles.mhka.be/actors/gordon-matta-clark) (1943-1978) was an ‘all-round artist’. He called his own work and that of the group that gathered around him [*'anarchitecture'*](http://ensembles.mhka.be/ensembles/anarchitectuur-anarchitecture) (a contraction of anarchy and architecture, which literally means ‘non-architecture’). In addition to [*performances and interventions*](http://ensembles.mhka.be/ensembles/performances-interventions-by-gordon-matta-clark), he mainly did spatial works that focused on transience and recycling. He is best known for his [*cuttings*](http://ensembles.mhka.be/ensembles/cuttings), which were monumental pieces cut out of buildings. His interventions were intended to open up new possibilities, ‘making the notion of the possible elastic’. He (briefly) breathed new life into abandoned buildings and forgotten neighbourhoods. In this way the buildings became metaphors for a different society.\r\n\r\nIn 1977 he created the masterly [*Office Baroque*](http://ensembles.mhka.be/ensembles/office-baroque) in Antwerp. Using chainsaws and electric grinding discs he cut through all the floors of an empty office building near the Steen so that the building was transformed into a bizarre pattern of through-views and spatial figures. A utopian-visionary museum project was generated around the work, and this almost came to fruition. It was with the [Gordon Matta-Clark Foundation](http://ensembles.mhka.be/ensembles/foundation-gordon-matta-clark), an international solidarity movement with the aim of saving this building and the museum project, that the foundations of the M HKA collection were laid. Which is why, when it opened in [*1987*](http://ensembles.mhka.be/events/gordon-matta-clark-a-retrospective-1968-1978), the M HKA started off with a Matta-Clark retrospective.\r\n\r\nMatta-Clark’s objective in his anarchitecture was to create art far away from museums and the art market. But since transience was an inherent part of his interventions, he documented them and his other experiments in all sorts of ways: in addition to the ‘removals’, drawings and writings, this included film, video and photography, which in the end became museum-based art after all. On the occasion of its 25th anniversary, the M HKA is showing the whole of its Matta-Clark ensemble with the recently with the recently acquired [*films*](http://ensembles.mhka.be/ensembles/film-videos-of-and-with-gordon-matta-clark) and [*vintage prints*](http://ensembles.mhka.be/ensembles/vintage-prints)."},{"locale":"nl","name":null,"short_description":"","description":"[GORDON MATTA-CLARK](http://ensembles.mhka.be/actors/gordon-matta-clark) (1943-1978) was een ‘totaalkunstenaar’. Hij noemde zijn werk en dat van de groep rond hem, [*anarchitectuur*](http://ensembles.mhka.be/ensembles/anarchitectuur-anarchitecture) (een samentrekking van anarchie en architectuur, die letterlijk ‘non-architectuur’ betekent). Naast [*performances* en *interventies*](http://ensembles.mhka.be/ensembles/performances-interventions-by-gordon-matta-clark), maakte hij vooral ruimtelijke werken waarin tijdelijkheid en recyclage centraal stonden. Hij is vooral bekend omwille van zijn [*cuttings*](http://ensembles.mhka.be/ensembles/cuttings): monumentale uitsnijdingen in gebouwen. Zijn ingrepen moesten nieuwe mogelijkheden openen, ‘het idee van het mogelijke rekbaar maken’. Verlaten panden en vergeten buurten werden (kortstondig) nieuw leven ingeblazen. Zo werden gebouwen metafoor voor een andere maatschappij. \r\n\r\nIn Antwerpen realiseerde hij in 1977 het magistrale [*Office Baroque*](http://ensembles.mhka.be/ensembles/office-baroque). In een leegstaand kantoorgebouw vlakbij het Steen, sneed hij met kettingzagen en slijpschijven doorheen alle verdiepingen zodat het gebouw in een bizar patroon van doorkijken en ruimtelijke figuren transformeerde. Er werd een utopisch-visionair museumproject rond ontwikkeld dat ei zo na lukte. Met de [Stichting Gordon Matta-Clark](http://ensembles.mhka.be/ensembles/foundation-gordon-matta-clark), een internationale solidariteitsbeweging om dit gebouw en het museumproject te redden, werd de basis gelegd voor de M HKA-collectie. Daarom opende het M HKA in [*1987*](http://ensembles.mhka.be/events/gordon-matta-clark-a-retrospective-1968-1978) zijn deuren met een retrospectief overzicht van Matta-Clark. Nu, naar aanleiding van de 25ste verjaardag, presenteert het M HKA zijn hele Matta-Clark-ensemble met onder meer de recent aangekochte [*films*](http://ensembles.mhka.be/ensembles/film-videos-of-and-with-gordon-matta-clark) en [*vintage prints*](http://ensembles.mhka.be/ensembles/vintage-prints)."},{"locale":"fr","name":null,"short_description":"","description":"[GORDON MATTA-CLARK](http://ensembles.mhka.be/actors/gordon-matta-clark)  (1943-1978) était un « artiste total ». Pour qualifier son œuvre et celle du groupe autour de lui, il a inventé de terme d’[«anarchitecture»](http://ensembles.mhka.be/ensembles/anarchitectuur-anarchitecture), la contraction d’anarchie et d’architecture, qui signifie littéralement la non-architecture. Outre des performances, il a surtout réalisé des œuvres spatiales qui s’articulaient autour de l’éphémérité et du recyclage. Il est surtout connu pour ses « [coupes](http://ensembles.mhka.be/ensembles/cuttings) » [cuttings] : des découpes monumentales dans des bâtiments. Ses interventions visaient à ouvrir de nouvelles potentialités, « à rendre l’idée du possible extensible ». Il insufflait ainsi une nouvelle vie (provisoire) à des immeubles abandonnés et oubliés, qui devenaient ainsi des métaphores pour une autre société.\r\n\r\nÀ Anvers, il réalise en 1977 le magistral [*Office Baroque*](http://ensembles.mhka.be/ensembles/office-baroque). À tous les étages d’un immeuble de bureaux à l’abandon situé en face du château du Steen, il effectue des découpes à l’aide de scies mécaniques et de meules. Il transforme ainsi le bâtiment en un étrange motif composé de percées à formes géométriques. Il conçoit en outre un projet visionnaire de musée utopique qui voit presque le jour. [La Fondation Gordon Matta-Clark](http://ensembles.mhka.be/ensembles/foundation-gordon-matta-clark), un mouvement de solidarité international créé peu de temps après de décès de l’artiste en 1978, se mobilise pour sauver *Office Baroque* et le projet de musée. La collection ainsi réunie constitue le point de départ de la collection du M HKA. C’est pour cela que quand le M HKA ouvre ses portes en [*1987*], la première exposition est une rétrospective de Matta-Clark.\r\n\r\nPar le biais de son anarchitecture, Matta-Clark veut produire de l’art en se tenant à l’écart des musées et du marché de l’art. Comme ses interventions sont intrinsèquement éphémères, il crée parallèlement une documentation de ses expérimentations. Outre les « dégagements », dessins et textes, cette documentation se compose surtout de films, de vidéos et de photographies, devenus malgré tout des œuvres muséales au bout du compte. À l’occasion des 25 ans du musée, le M HKA présente la totalité de l’ensemble Matta-Clark avec les [*films*](http://ensembles.mhka.be/ensembles/film-videos-of-and-with-gordon-matta-clark) récemment acheté et les [*tirages vintage*](http://ensembles.mhka.be/ensembles/vintage-prints)."},{"locale":"ru","name":null,"short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"de","name":null,"short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"es","name":null,"short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"el","name":null,"short_description":"","description":""}],"actors":[{"id":136,"name":"Gordon Matta-Clark","assets":{"poster":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/001/316/large/Matta-Clark,%20Gordon,%20401,%2027,%20foto%20Florent%20Bex.jpg?1305281930","poster_credits":"© M HKA/Florent Bex"}},{"id":1168,"name":"Florent Bex","assets":{"poster":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/012/797/large/FLOR.jpg?1349182072","poster_credits":null}}],"items":[{"id":285,"title":"Office Baroque # 669","date_begin":"1977-01-01","poster_image":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/000/448/large/Matta-Clark,%20Gordon,%20Office%20Baroque%20%23%20669,%201977%20collectie%20M%20HKA.jpg?1332231645","poster_credits":"(c)image: Syb'l. 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