Editorial

Gordon Matta-Clark: You Are the Measure

This retrospective celebrates the brilliance and radical nature of Gordon Matta-Clark’s work in various media: sculptural objects (most, notably, from building cuts), drawings, films, photographs, notebooks, and documentary materials. Matta-Clark’s work has particular relevance for Chicago. He created his last major work on the site of the MCA’s original building in 1978. The project, titled Circus or The Caribbean Orange, consisted of massive cuts into a neighboring townhouse before its annexation and renovation into galleries.

1. Introduction by Lynne Warren

2. Jane Crawford and Lynne Warren on Garbage Wall, 1970 (re-created 2008)

3. Jane Crawford on the Agar works, 1969–71

4. Jane Crawford on Glass Plant: Garbage Bricks, 1970–71

5. Lynne Warren on Walls Paper, 1972

6. Lynne Warren on Graffiti Photoglyph, 1973

7. Lynne Warren on Untitled, 1973

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