Gordon Matta-Clark: Mutation in Space

Installation view of the exhibition, Gordon Matta-Clark: Mutation in Space, at the National Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo, dated 2018.

Installation view, Gordon Matta-Clark: Mutation in Space, National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, 2018

MOMAT, Tokyo

June 2018

June 19–September 17, 2018

In Tokyo, the first full-scale retrospective of Matta-Clark’s work in Asia was on view at The National Museum of Modern Art from June 19–September 17, 2018. Gordon Matta-Clark: Mutation in Spaceencompassed some two hundred works including sculptures, videos, photographs, drawings, and materials relating to the artist’s performances, and has an accompanying publication. As part of this exhibition, one of the largest works from Matta-Clark’s renowned "building cut" series, Splitting: Four Corners (1974), composed of real building fragments, was shown in Japan for the first time.