Gordon Matta-Clark: David Zwirner/Zwirner & Wirth. (Reviews: New York).(Brief Article)

Gordon Matta-Clark died young, but the life span of his large-scale architectural interventions was even shorter. Of the major site-specific "non-uments" realized in the period between his architectural studies at Cornell in the late '6os and his death from cancer in 1978, not one has escaped the wrecking crew.

Since the work was fundamentally concerned with the physical experience of built space--a kinesthetic mix of void and mass, light and shadow, suburban saltbox or pier warehouse and phenomenological event--this poses problems for curators. Of course, Matta-Clark knew ...

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