Gordon Matta-Clark - Splitting - 1974

Staple bound artist book, 32 pages and one fold out page at end, photos of a house on Long Island, split down the center. "Splitting" is remembered primarily through photographs Matta-Clark took of the finished work and reproduced in a small book. In addition, the excised corners of the building have been saved, serving as positive relics of the work's negative space. These images and souvenirs, as Matta-Clark called them, are the constituents of an exhibition called "Splitting" at the Holly Solomon Gallery.