Gordon Matta-Clark
dal 16/9/2014 al 17/9/2014
Segnalato da
16/9/2014
Gordon Matta-Clark
The Mistake Room, Los Angeles
A two-evening screening program devoted to his film works. This program marks the launch of Moments-a new curatorial initiative focused on historical presentations and new commissions of film, sound, digital, literary and body-based works and projects.
The Mistake Room is pleased to present a two-evening screening program devoted to the film works of Gordon Matta-Clark (1943-1978). This program marks the launch of MOMENTS-a new curatorial initiative of The Mistake Room focused on historical presentations and new commissions of film, sound, digital, literary and body-based works and projects.
Born in New York in 1943, Gordon Matta-Clark is considered one of the most influential American artists of the last four decades. Trained as an architect, Matta-Clark's practice was anchored around a radical investigation of space and architecture; of the complexities of urban life and the structures that mold and sustain it. Informed by both Minimalism and Surrealism, Matta-Clark used buildings as a site and a medium-physically carving out sections of them to create temporary spatial compositions that went on to exist only in his photographs, collages, and films. Until his untimely death in 1978, at the age of 35, Matta-Clark drew attention to the multitude of places that bodies construct and inhabit in urban centers-to their materiality, their sociability, and even their mortality. In an oeuvre that is beautiful and raw, Matta-Clark exposes both the violent and transcendental qualities embedded in the gestures of building-leaving behind for us a haunting architectural imagination where the lives of cities continue to evolve.
The two-evening screening program at The Mistake Room will focus on Matta-Clark's relationship to the city-as a material, as a site for intervention, and as an image. Encompassing a total of seven films and a series of interjecting conversations and dialogues, Cities on Screens: Film Works by Gordon Matta-Clark aims to reflect on the rapidly changing nature of Los Angeles itself, particularly its Downtown. At a time when multiple acts of building are enacted upon this formerly desolate terrain and promises of regeneration fuel both speculative new inhabitance and dislocation, Matta-Clark's works provide a moment of meditation on the past and future of Los Angeles.
Cities on Screens: Film Works by Gordon Matta-Clark is organized by The Mistake Room and co-curated by Cesar Garcia, Director and Chief Curator, and Jessamyn Fiore, Co-Director of the Estate of Gordon Matta-Clark.
Special thanks to The Estate of Gordon Matta-Clark, David Zwirner, New York/London, and Electronic Arts Intermix.
SCREENING SCHEDULE:
Wednesday, September 17th, 2014
Fire Child (1971)9:47 min, color, silent, Super 8mm film on video
Fresh Kill (1972)12:56 min, color, sound, 16mm film on video
Day's End (1975)23:10 min, color, silent, Super 8mm film on video
Thursday, September 18th, 2014
Substrait (Underground Dailies) (1976)30 min, b&w and color, sound, 16mm film on video
Splitting (1974) 10:50 min, b&w and color, silent, Super 8mm film on video
Conical Intersect (1975) 18:40 min, color, silent, 16mm film on video
City Slivers (1976) 15 min, color, silent, Super 8mm film on video
About The Mistake Room
The Mistake Room is Los Angeles's only independent non-profit cultural institution devoted to an international program of contemporary art and thought. Founded on a deep commitment to the production and advancement of new forms of knowledge and creative expression, The Mistake Room has at the core of its mission a single mandate-to generate critical insights into the nature of human creativity and its responsible, purposeful, and meaningful role and function in society. Working with some of the most promising artists and cultural producers from around the globe and commissioning new work and experimental projects with established figures who have never before worked in our city, The Mistake Room brings to audiences a program that is intellectually rigorous, genuinely diverse, culturally relevant, and reflective of the complexities of our changing world.
Image: Gordon Matta-Clark, Day's End, 1975. Courtesy of The Estate of Gordon Matta-Clark and David Zwirner, New York/London
For Media Inquiries Contact:
Alanna Navitski / Jennifer Gross
Evolutionary Media Group
323.658.8700
Alanna@emgpr.com / Jennifer@emgpr.com
The Mistake Room
1811 E. 20th Street, Los Angeles, CA, 90058
Wednesday, September 17th, 2014, 7-9:30pm
Thursday, September 18th, 2014, 7-9:30pm