A cavernous, abandoned structure with exposed metal beams and a monumental, leaf-shaped aperture cut into the far wall and filling the space with sunlight.

Gordon Matta-Clark

Days End Pier 52.3 (Documentation of the action "Day's End" made in 1975 in New York, United States)

1975, printed 1977

Not on view

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Classification
Photographs

Medium
Gelatin silver print

Dimensions
Sheet: 8 × 10 in. (20.3 × 25.4 cm) Image: 7 × 9 3/4 in. (17.8 × 24.8 cm)

Accession number
2017.134

Credit line
Gift of Harold Berg

Rights and reproductions
© Estate of Gordon Matta-Clark / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

API
artworks/43328




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