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Date posted: October 9, 2008

Splitting For Real

In 1974 American artist Gordon Matta-Clark created a work called Splitting for which he divided an empty freestanding, two-storey house in two.

In a case of life imitating art an estranged Cambodian couple have separated by sawing their house in half, thus hoping to avoid the country's convoluted divorce process, local authorities said. The full story.

The W-hole Story Lisa Lefeuvre on Gordon Matta-Clark in: Art Monthly, April 2002 / No 255, pp. 12-15.

Gordon Matta-Clark Splitting
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