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Gordon Matta-Clark, (EEUU)
FOOD, 1972
16mm film, b/n, 43:00 mins.

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This film documents a day in the life of the legendary restaurant Food in the Soho of New York where Matta Clark made his early Cuttings. Opened in 1971, Food became the place for emerging artists to meet for over two years. In its kitchens and at its tables, food became not only a material for work, communication and artistic activity but also the catalyst of an economic and labour system self-managed by an artistic community that aspired to guaranteeing the survival of some 300 artists in the city. However, once the inheritance and generous donations of the ballerina and photographer, Caroline Goodden, to the maintenance of the locale ran out, the restaurant closed. In spite of this, Food remains one of the paradigmatic projects in the history and myth of the 1970s.
By courtesy of Electronic Arts Intermix, New York.

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Gordon Matta-Clark (EEUU)
Gordon Matta-Clark was born in New York in 1943 and died in 1978. He studied French literature at the Sorbonne and architecture at Cornell University. In the early 1970s, as a founding member of the artist-run Food Restaurant in New York's Soho neighbourhood, Matta-Clark participated in numerous group exhibitions and projects. His work was presented in Documenta V, Kassel, Germany; and at exhibitions in Sao Paolo, Berlin, Zurich, and the IX Biennalel in Paris. Major projects by Matta-Clark were staged in Aachen, Paris and Antwerp. Following his death, retrospective exhibitions have been organised by the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, Germany; and IVAM Centro Julio Gonzalez, Valencia, Spain.