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  • Gordon Matta-Clark, Circus, 1978, Cibachrome, 40 × 30".

    Gordon Matta-Clark, Circus, 1978, Cibachrome, 40 × 30".

    Gordon Matta-Clark

    Rhona Hoffman Gallery

    “The first thing that one notices is that violence has been done,” Gordon Matta-Clark said of his “anarchitectures,” the series of geometric cuts into buildings slated for demolition that he realized in the 1970s. “You see that light enters places it otherwise couldn’t.” Produced in January 1978 in a three-story brownstone soon to be converted into an annex of the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Circus or The Caribbean Orange was the last project Matta-Clark completed prior to his untimely death in August of that year. It was also the artist’s only site-specific museum commission, complete

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