Matta-Clark works from the Berg collection on display at the National Academy of San Luca

Opening December 14, 2018, is the exhibition Collecting Matta-Clark. The Berg Collection. Works, Documents and Ephemera set up at theAccademia Nazionale di San Luca and open to the public until Feb. 25, 2019.

The exhibition aims to pay homage to American artist Gordon Matta-Clark and collector Harold Berg, highlighting collecting as a cultured and culturally responsible practice.

The exhibition will present visitors with original Matta-Clark works, drawings, vintage photographic prints, cibachromes, original films, and a wide range of documents such as catalogs, artist’s books, and newspaper articles, the ephemera, from the Berg collection.

The exhibition will provide an understanding of the artist’s entire activity and the creative atmosphere of New York’s SoHo in the early 1970s: from the experience of the interventions on abandoned buildings to the FOOD restaurant, founded by Matta-Clark himself with his fellow performer Carol Goodden, which became a meeting point of the lively American art scene, arriving at the Anarchitecture group, composed of artists such as Laurie Anderson, Tina Girouard, Suzanne Harris, Jene Highstein, Bernard Kirschenbaun, Richard Landry, Jeffrey Lew and Richard Nonas and Matta-Clark himself, characterized by a focus on the relationship between architecture, design and social context. Drawing thus becomes a cognitive trace, a descent into the reality of the metropolitan landscape.

The retrospective is a collaboration between Harold Berg, Federico De Melis and Gianni Dessì.

For info: www.accademiasanluca.eu/it

Hours: Monday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Closed Sundays and holidays. Special closure on Dec. 24 and reduced hours will be observed on Dec. 31.

Free admission.

Matta-Clark works from the Berg collection on display at the National Academy of San Luca

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