Gordon Matta-Clark

Circus 2 (Documentation of the action "Circus-Caribbean Orange" made in 1978 in Chicago, United States)
1978

Black and white photograph depicting a chaotic scene of fragmented and abstract architectural elements, possibly from an interior space, with a disorienting perspective that makes it difficult to discern the orientation of the room or structure.
Black and white photograph depicting a chaotic scene of fragmented and abstract architectural elements, possibly from an interior space, with a disorienting perspective that makes it difficult to discern the orientation of the room or structure.

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Date
1978

Classification
Photographs

Medium
Gelatin silver print

Dimensions
Sheet: 8 × 10in. (20.3 × 25.4 cm) Image: 6 11/16 × 9 11/16in. (17 × 24.6 cm)

Accession number
2017.122

Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of Harold Berg

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

API
artworks/43361

Gordon Matta-Clark
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