Curated by Tatiana Cuevas and Gabriela Rangel
In the city where his father, the Surrealist painter Matta, was born, the Museo de Arte de Lima and the MNBA bring Gordon Matta-Clark’s Chilean roots to bear in his first major South American survey. Emphasizing Matta-Clark as a social interventionist, the show features letters, notes, and sketches alongside films, sculptures, and documentation of his cuttings, “anarchitectural” works, Fake Estates, Food, and other 1970s projects; the catalogue (in Spanish/English and Portuguese/English editions) continues the coverage with a selection of the artist’s writings and interviews. But the centerpiece of the exhibition is a series of photographs, never before exhibited, documenting Matta-Clark’s little-known 1971 cut at the MNBA itself.
