Quite conscious of the impermanence of his work, Matta-Clark tried as far as was possible to document his urban interventions, his performances, and his actions in abandoned buildings. In addition to his removals and photographic collages – both considered as fully-fledged artworks – there also exist a great number of films, drawings, letters, preliminary studies, notes and other documents. About this, he says: ‘... that’s what I like about the whole documentation process (…) if it’s not worth documenting, it’s not worth having.’
The M HKA has a number of these vintage prints: photographic prints made by (or at least contemporaneous to) Matta-Clark.
>Conical Intersect - 3.Photography, vintage print, b/w photo, 30.3 x 23.9 cm, image: 18.2 cm x 22.5 cm.
>Conical Intersect - 2.Photography, vintage print, b/w photograph, 30.8 x 23.9 cm, image: 22.6 x 18.2 cm .
>Conical intersect - 1.Photography, vintage print, b/w photo, 25.3 x 20.2 cm, image: 24 x 19 cm.
>Gordon Matta-Clark, Splitting: Four Corners, 1974.Photography, vintage print, b/w photo, 30.4 x 24 cm, image: 22.5 x 19.5 cm.
>Gordon Matta-Clark, Day's End (also called Day's Passing) - 4.Photography, vintage print, b/w photography, 23.8 cm x 29.9 cm image 23.7 cm x 22.5.
>Gordon Matta-Clark, Day's End (also called Day's Passing) - 3.Photography, vintage print, b/w photography, 20.2 cm X 25.2 cm image 19 cm x 24 cm.
>Gordon Matta-Clark, Day's End (also called Day's Passing) - 2.Photography, vintage print, b/w photography, 30.3 cm x 23.9 cm image 20.2 cm x 22.6 cm.
>Gordon Matta-Clark, Day's End (also called Day's Passing) - 1.Photography, vintage print, b/w photography, 20.3 cm x 25.3 cm image 24 cm x 19 cm.