Gordon Matta-Clarck it is like an artistic polyhedron which can be observed from different points.
He was born June 22th, 1943 in the bosom of a family dedicated to art - his parents were the artists Robert Mattea y Anna clarck-, and was godson of Teeny Duchamp, Marcel's wife.
After living his childhood between New York, Paris and Chile, he studied architecture at the Cornell University during 1963 and 1968.
Period in which his vocation to explore the power of transformation was born and he joined the idea of "Artists of the earth", who rejected the commodification of art.
Renowned for its monumental "Construction cuts" on the facades of abandoned buildings, Matta-clarck he opposed and debated the role of the architect.
With this, he took as a bastion the idea of creating new understandings of the relationship of a subject with the space and involving the viewer to question the categories of property and use.
Matta-Clarck believed that we should expand the experience of living in a city by physically and mentally cohabiting its spaces underground and inaccessible; and, based on this, reflect on development and economic stratification.
The creative perception of the so-called "Anarchitect" played in different strengths, such as photography, cinema, performance, collage of photos, sculpture and drawing.
Practices with which he immersed himself in an experimentation that seemed infinite until it ended with the death of the artist at age 35 in New York.