MATTA-CLARK Gordon (New York 1943 - 1978)
New York, Buffalo press, 1973, 26 × 20,5 cm, pp. (72)+(72), pp. [144]; black-and-white illustrated cover. Text-free artist’s book composed of two separate, fully illustrated blocks of color-tinted pages. The title Walls Paper is a play on words describing the book’s physical form: conceived as a kind of wallpaper sample book, its pages reproduce images of the deteriorating walls of tenement buildings in the Bronx. Gordon Matta-Clark often used wordplay in the titles of his works, a tendency he shared with his father, the Chilean Surrealist artist Roberto Sebastián Matta.
[Bibliography: Marzona Sammlung 2003: p. (49-(50) with images, no. 33; Parr - Badger 2006: vol. II, pp. 148-149; Roth - Aarons -Lehmann 2017: pp. 180-181].
MATTA-CLARK Gordon (New York 1943 - 1978)
New York, Buffalo press, 1973, 26 × 20,5 cm, pp. (72)+(72), pp. [144]; black-and-white illustrated cover. Text-free artist’s book composed of two separate, fully illustrated blocks of color-tinted pages. The title Walls Paper is a play on words describing the book’s physical form: conceived as a kind of wallpaper sample book, its pages reproduce images of the deteriorating walls of tenement buildings in the Bronx. Gordon Matta-Clark often used wordplay in the titles of his works, a tendency he shared with his father, the Chilean Surrealist artist Roberto Sebastián Matta.
[Bibliography: Marzona Sammlung 2003: p. (49-(50) with images, no. 33; Parr - Badger 2006: vol. II, pp. 148-149; Roth - Aarons -Lehmann 2017: pp. 180-181].
