Lance Fung Gallery, New York – May 1999

Robert Barry, Douglas Huebler, Sol LeWitt, Gordon Matta-Clark

After several years as representative of the Gordon Matta-Clark estate, Lance Fung returned to his original passion by unveiling a hybrid of exhibition, phenomenal research and live and posthumous collaboration surrounding an actual building cut, “Infraform,” by the important urban artist Gordon Matta-Clark. According to Mr. Fung “Matta-Clark’s untimely death left the art world an amazing body of work. It includes building extractions, photographs, drawings, notebooks and a conceptual breakthrough in three dimensionally structured absence. Unfortunately, all of the buildings cut by Matta-Clark were demolished. This has forever erased our path to the original executions.

Renowned artist Richard Nonas, longtime friend and co-conspirator in many Matta-Clark building cuts will oversee and re-cut the structure. An early turning point for Matta-Clark, “Infraform” forced the artist to score and chisel the outlines of an incision prior to taking an extraction from the wall. The scoring process created a “wall drawing”.

Robert Barry and Sol LeWitt agreed to create their own wall drawings to engage Matta-Clark’s Infraform cutting and to frame Matta-Clark’s work as an important position within the concept movement. True to being a premier, Wall Drawings exhibited a new drawing technique by Robert Barry and is the New York debut of Sol LeWitts “Copy Drawing”. As an additional historical element, Lance Fung included an early wall drawing from 1970 by the late Douglas Huebler, who founded the theory of conceptual art.