Gordon Matta-Clark: Anarchitect Retrospective at Bronx Museum

The Bronx Museum of the Arts, in collaboration with David Zwirner, presents "Gordon Matta-Clark: Anarchitect," a major retrospective of the artist who died in 1978. The exhibition traces Matta-Clark's career from his early Bronx works to his final projects, emphasizing his surgical cuts into abandoned buildings and his engagement with urban decay. Curated by Antonio Sergio Bessa and Jessamyn Fiore, the show opens with "Bronx Floors" (1973), a section of linoleum flooring on loan from MoMA, which symbolizes the ethical failures of 1970s housing policy. It also features Matta-Clark's photographic documentation of early hip-hop graffiti, where he used an airbrush to highlight tags on black-and-white film. The exhibition culminates with video documentation of "Day's End" (1975) and "Conical Intersect" (1975), the latter created for the Paris Biennale by cutting into two 18th-century buildings near the Centre Pompidou, critiquing gentrification. The show runs through April 8, 2018, at the Bronx Museum, 1040 Grand Concourse.