One of the things I love about this period of art is that the art does contain a sense of logic and process that can be understood. It was philosophical and com

One of the things I love about this period of art is that the art does contain a sense of logic and process that can be understood. It was philosophical and communicative - the artists were saying something meaningful and meant to be understood. There was a story I read in a paper about Matta-Clarkes 'splitting' a while back [0] (The paper is a bit of a long read, but gives a good insight into his work. Unfortunately not open access..) where in one of Matta-Clarkes pieces.. >the artist used a BB gun to shoot out the windows of the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies.. He then mounted pictures of derelict buildings from the South Bronx in the windows. >When shattered, the Institute’s “renovated” apertures opened jaggedly on to images of an alternative reality, one to which its members remained blind and sealed away. Or so, in literalizing the inability of architecture to see or reach the social reality from which it was so decisively divorced, Matta-Clark seemed to claim. The 'anarchy' part of the anarchitecture was not just posturing. [0] https://direct.mit.edu/grey/article/doi/10.1162/152638104322894895/10403/Splitting-and-Doubling-Gordon-Matta-Clark-and-the https://direct.mit.edu/grey/article/doi/10.1162/152638104322...