




Gordon Matta-Clark
Conical Intersect
Conical Intersect
1975
One of the most outstanding works of Gordon Matta-Clark was his intervention in 1975 in an apartment building about to be demolished in the once-busy market area of Les Halles, Paris. Creator of the so-called ‘building cuts’ or interventions in abandoned buildings as a criticism of the speculation of rampant capitalism, here he cuts the building in a circle evoking the truncated cone in Anthony McCall’s Line Describing a Cone, also in the MACBA Collection. In the vicinity of the building, the new Georges Pompidou art centre, then under construction, completes the sense of action.
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Building cuts
Line Describing a Cone (1973)
Des Halles (Paris, France)
Centre Georges Pompidou
McCall, Anthony
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