Splitting: Interior
Artist
Gordon Matta-Clark
(American, 1943 - 1978)
Date1974
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage (1): 18 3/4 × 13 5/8 inches (47.63 × 34.61 cm)
Image (2): 17 1/2 × 15 inches (44.45 × 38.1 cm)
Image (3): 18 × 12 1/2 inches (45.72 × 31.75 cm)
Mount: 29 3/4 × 39 1/2 inches (75.57 × 100.33 cm)
Framed: 31 × 41 × 1 1/2 inches (78.74 × 104.14 × 3.81 cm)
Image (2): 17 1/2 × 15 inches (44.45 × 38.1 cm)
Image (3): 18 × 12 1/2 inches (45.72 × 31.75 cm)
Mount: 29 3/4 × 39 1/2 inches (75.57 × 100.33 cm)
Framed: 31 × 41 × 1 1/2 inches (78.74 × 104.14 × 3.81 cm)
Credit LineGift of Hallmark Cards, Inc.
Object number2005.27.251
SignedOn mount verso, center left, black stamp with black pen: "#710 / From the Estate of / Gordon Matta Clark / Jane Crawford Clark";
On mount verso, lower right, black stamp with black pen: "#712 / From the Estate of / Gordon Matta Clark / Jane Crawford Clark"
Inscribednone
Markingsnone
On View
On viewGallery Location
- L11
Collections
DescriptionComposite image of three photographs mounted seemingly haphazardly at varying angles; the images depict interiors - a doorway with light shining in from a window, a hallway railing, and a staircase.Gallery LabelWith the help of a few friends, Gordon Matta-Clark used a chainsaw to bisect an old frame house in New Jersey. Arranged asymmetrically, this large photographic montage evokes the physical efforts and dizzying results of the artist’s creative destruction.
He recorded these acts, which he called “cuttings,” with cameras, blurring the lines between performance, photography, and video art. As a work of art, Matta-Clark’s Splitting, 1974, is not only the act of cutting a house in half but also the resulting photographs and video.
Copyright© Estate of Gordon Matta-Clark /
Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
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