Circus (Caribbean Orange)
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Not on view at present
Where is “Circus (Caribbean Orange)” now? Collection: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago. Not on view at present. Checked September 29, 2026.
Chicago, United States
It belongs to the collection, but is not on display at present.
- Checked
- In this state since
- Source
- The museum
About the work
Trained as an architect, Gordon Matta-Clark gave spaces affected by blight or gentrification a second life as sculptures by cutting geometric voids into condemned buildings with a chainsaw. For Circus (Caribbean Orange), commissioned by the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (MCA), Matta-Clark carved three spherical volumes (like a three-ring circus) from a three-story townhouse adjacent to the MCA’s former location, before the building was transformed into additional gallery space. Matta-Clark printed slides of the resulting space and then cut into the photographs to produce collages like this one. He explains that these photocollages “try and capture the ‘all around’ experience of the piece” and are “an approximation of this kind of ambulatory ‘getting to know’ what the space is about.”
Art Institute of ChicagoCC BY 4.0
Details
- Accession number
- 2018.651
In the catalog
Sources
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Image: Art Institute of Chicago — © the artist or rights holder
