Gordan Matta Clarke
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Seen to be related to Matta-Clark's concerns and methodologies is the recent work of artists such as Rachel Whiteread, who has turned architecture inside out; Gregor Schneider's rearticulation of domestic space; DJ Simpson's drawing with a router; Liam Gillick's siting of his work in a location he describes as 'the middle ground'; and Rirkrit Tiravanija's creation of active social spaces.
On Matta-Clark's 1975 work Conical Intersec:
In a pair of buildings, Matta-Clark created a cone-shaped volume at a 45° angle running through the walls and floors of both buildings. The work was inspired by Anthony McCall's film Line Describing a Cone (included this January in 'Into the Light' at the Whitney Museum of American Art, see AM252), the first of a number of investigations into the ways that light is thrown off by a projector. Matta-Clark's volume existed as a negative space — it was a void through the building.