Architect: Gordon Matta-Clark
Review: Found in Translation
21 August 2016
Review: Found in Translation21 August 2016
At first it seemed hugely unfair to invite an audience of some thirty adept critics to review a week’s drawing work by eight students, the more so in the dauntingly Olympian cultural setting of Hauser & Wirth. The review was held in Smiljan Radic’s 2014 Serpentine Pavilion, now commanding the… Read More
Work on Paper: Future Scenarios, Part II
31 May 2016
Work on Paper: Future Scenarios, Part II31 May 2016
By Niall Hobhouse and Nicholas Olsberg
FRAGMENTS: THE BUILDING SITE AND THE RUIN Louis-Jean Desprez turns to another legendary city of the ancient world — Alexander’s capital in Egypt — to advocate in a dream view of Alexandria in construction what great ambitions might be aroused in the new king of Sweden, after his predecessor, who… Read More
Olsberg: Gordon Matta-Clark
19 January 2017
Olsberg: Gordon Matta-Clark19 January 2017
By Nicholas Olsberg
During a poetry reading at St Mark’s Church in the East Village of New York in 1973 Gordon Matta-Clark announced that he would draw on a roll of butcher paper an account of the history of architecture with a single long stroke of the pen. At the conclusion he would… Read More
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