The Gordon Matta Clark exhibition at MOCA, featured various works from the artist’s short but productive career, primarily through video and photo documentation. One such work, Glass Plant Garbage Bricks, 1970-71, Matta Clark used broken glass bottles that he melted down into glass bricks. Not only are the bricks kind of pretty, but the concept is an innovative way to reuse/ recycle unwanted trash into something that can create shelter for the homeless. This piece is much more productive than Matta Clark’s other works in which he basically uses architecture as sculpture. While the artist may have been responding to the space within a structure and what one can do with that space, I felt that much of this work was simply destructive. Perhaps that is the point, but I am much more interested in what Clark has done with converting an existing space or materials into something more useful.
We are a group of Art students from the University of California Riverside who are attending a series of Art Galleries in several parts of Southern California. We have decided to use Blogger.com to post the pictures we take, and record our thoughts and opinions about the work we visit. You can find our critiques and thoughts on the work in the "comments" field, which appears below the pictures of the art.
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The Gordon Matta Clark exhibition at MOCA, featured various works from the artist’s short but productive career, primarily through video and photo documentation. One such work, Glass Plant Garbage Bricks, 1970-71, Matta Clark used broken glass bottles that he melted down into glass bricks. Not only are the bricks kind of pretty, but the concept is an innovative way to reuse/ recycle unwanted trash into something that can create shelter for the homeless. This piece is much more productive than Matta Clark’s other works in which he basically uses architecture as sculpture. While the artist may have been responding to the space within a structure and what one can do with that space, I felt that much of this work was simply destructive. Perhaps that is the point, but I am much more interested in what Clark has done with converting an existing space or materials into something more useful.
-Drue-Ann
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