Gordon Matta-Clark, Conical Intersect, 1975
I saw video footage of the making of ‘A Conical Intersect’ at the Psycho Buildings exhibition at the Hayward over the summer. The aesthetic and geometrical simplicity of the cone shaped hollow sliced out of the side of a Parisian appartment building, in comparison to the complicated logistics of carrying out such an opperation is obviously one of the main attractions of a work like this. As well as the insight of such an idea. Although, the thirty minute, silent document of Matta-Clark and whoever his several helpers were, figuring out what tool to use in order to make a considered destruction, when confronted with the next apparent layer of the floor or wall, is such a gorgeous example of the balances and . Between …
