Infraform (Cut Drawing) . 1973
In the Cut Drawings, which he worked on throughout the decade, Matta-Clark explored parallel, smaller-format versions of his physical interventions in architecture, slicing meticulously through several layers of paper, gesso, or cardboard to create sculptural objects that emphasized the voids created from the extraction of space. The miniature sawing constituted a performance in itself, with the resulting works revealing more clearly the geometrical patterns employed in the actual building cuts. In studies for these works the corporeal element is further reduced to meditations on the relationship between squares, triangles, circles, and diagonals.
David Zwirner
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