Thomas Solomon Gallery @ Rental Gallery
936 Mei Ling Way
Los Angeles California 90012
310-428-2964
thomas.solomon@mac.com
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Gordon Matta-Clark: "Drawings"
Exhibition Dates: February 3rd – March 10, 2007
Opening Saturday February 3rd from 6 to 8pm
Thomas Solomon Gallery @ Rental Gallery is pleased to present works on paper of the late artist Gordon Matta-Clark. These softly drawn/painted paper pieces were executed in1973/1974 and occupy the territory of architecture/ land art/ automatic writing and surrealist drawing. The iconographic/linguistic elements merge the hand and its expression of time and motion. The works evoke visionary architectural proposals choreographed with organic structures from nature. Depicting mosques, houses, and columns in softly touched black ink on paper, these scroll-like filmic narratives dance across the landscape of the page and resemble theatrical stage presentations; it seems as if you get to see the beginning, middle and end from left to right. Arrows and dashes reference the motion and direction amongst the structures. Unconventional forms and calligraphic marks are transformed, as if time-lapsed on one page, into experimental themes of alternative housing illuminating his ecological and utopian ideals. The interaction of the human body with and within nature, and simultaneously, with and within architecture, is a significant point around which his work orbited.
Gordon Matta-Clark was born in New York in 1943, the son of the Chilean surrealist painter Roberto Matta and his American partner, Anne Clark. He studied architecture at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, USA, from 1962-68, and French literature at the Sorbonne in Paris, France, from 1962-63. He died of cancer in New York in 1978.
Gallery hours are Wednesday-Saturday from 12 until 5 pm
Please contact Thomas Solomon for further information: 310-428-2964