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Gordon Matta-Clark & Pope L.: Impossible Failures
Series: Clarion
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Gordon Matta-Clark & Pope L.: Impossible Failures brings together two artists who explore their shared fixation on the challenges of architecture, language, institutions, scale, and value. "[The exhibition is] powerful and unhinged and overbuilt—a monument to the entropy of the postindustrial city, and the tenuous dance...
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Gordon Matta-Clark & Pope L.: Impossible Failures brings together two artists who explore their shared fixation on the challenges of architecture, language, institutions, scale, and value.
"[The exhibition is] powerful and unhinged and overbuilt—a monument to the entropy of the postindustrial city, and the tenuous dance of its inhabitants." — The New York Times
Gordon Matta-Clark and Pope.L are renowned for their interdisciplinary practices that scrutinise the value and paradoxes of urban life and the risks inherent in art making. By employing performance, film, drawing, and various multimedia projects, these artists often create interstitial spaces through sweeping gestures that consider shifting, decentralised zones. Grounded in the concept of failure, the sixth exhibition at 52 Walker and its accompanying catalogue rethink societal, artistic, and structural failures, offering a contemplation of hope in their expression.
With an introduction by curator and director of 52 Walker, Ebony L. Haynes, this publication includes a conversation piece between Haynes, artist Pope.L, and LAXART director Hamza Walker. They discuss the visual, material, and conceptual similarities between Pope.L's and Gordon Matta-Clark's works, and the significance of recognising the possibilities of failure as an artistic medium.
About Clarion
The Clarion series of illustrated publications extends each exhibition at the innovative gallery space 52 Walker, curated by Ebony L. Haynes. The programme focuses on showcasing conceptual and research-based artists from diverse backgrounds at various career stages. The series title is inspired by the Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers' Workshop at the University of California, San Diego, attended by Octavia Butler in the 1970s. Butler's writing has significantly influenced the conceptual framework of the programme and the Clarion series. Featuring a sleek design inspired by encyclopedias, each publication includes colour reproductions of the featured works, an introduction by Haynes, commissioned essays, artist texts, archival materials, and more.
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ISBN: 9781644231258
Publisher: David Zwirner
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 20 June 2024
Country: United States
Imprint: David Zwirner
Illustration: 54 Illustrations, color
Contributors:
- Introduction by Ebony L. Haynes
- Interviewee Pope.L.
- Interviewee Hamza Walker
- Interviewee Ebony L. Haynes
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Width: 165.0mm
Height: 232.0mm
Weight: 480g
Pages: 96
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About the Author
Pope.L (b. 1955) was born in Newark, New Jersey, and presently resides and works in Chicago. He received his B.A. from Montclair State College, New Jersey, in 1978, and also attended the prestigious Whitney Museum Independent Study Program, New York, from 1977 to 1978. In 1981 the artist received his M.F.A. from the Mason Gross School at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, and later participated in the Mabou Mines Re.Cher.Chez Theater Intensive from 1983 to 1985 in New York. The artist has been distinguished by a multitude of grants and awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship (2004), the United States Artists Rockefeller Fellowship (2006), and more recently the Bucksbaum Award (2017).
A central figure of the downtown New York art scene in the 1970s, Gordon Matta-Clark (1943-1978) pioneered a radical approach to art making that directly engaged the urban environment and the communities within it. Through his many projects-including large-scale architectural interventions in which he physically cut through buildings slated for demolition-Matta-Clark developed a singular and prodigious oeuvre that critically examined the structures of the built environment. With actions and experimentations across a wide range of media, his work transcended the genres of performance, conceptual, process, and land art, making him one of the most innovative and influential artists of his generation. As Roberta Smith notes, Matta-Clark "used his skills to reshape and transform architecture into an art of structural explication and spatial revelation."
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