Matthew Barney
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Matthew Barney (born March 25, 1967 in San Francisco, California) is a contemporary media artist working with film, video installations, sculpture, photography and drawing. New York Times art critic Michael Kimmelman called Barney "the most important American artist of his generation."
Barney spent his youth partially in Idaho, where he played football on Capital High School's team and gave a graduation speech about sperm, and partially in New York City with his mother, who introduced him to art and museums. This intermingling of sports and art would inspire his later work as an artist. He received a B.A. from Yale University in 1989. He also worked briefly as a model for Click modeling agency, and was in a J. Crew ad.
The film series The Cremaster Cycle is Barney's best-known work. De Lama Lamina (Of Mud a Blade) [1] premiered in September 2004.
Matthew Barney won the Europa 2000 prize at the 45th Venice Biennale in 1993. In 1996, he was the first recipient of the Hugo Boss Prize, awarded by the Guggenheim Museum. His work also graces the album cover of Arto Lindsay's recording Prize (1999).
In 2006, he released Drawing Restraint 9, a collaboration with his girlfriend Björk, with whom he has one daughter, Ísadóra, born October 3 2002.
A gallery show accompanying the Drawing Restraint 9 project appeared at Gladstone Gallery in New York, April 7-May 13, 2006, featuring thermoplastic sculptures associated with the film and the remains of a private project performed at the gallery April 2, 2006, titled Drawing Restraint 13: The Instrument of Surrender, for which Barney emerged from a crate dressed as General Douglas MacArthur, walked across a platform, and fell into a vat of petroleum jelly. [2].
[edit] Notable works
- (1995) Cremaster 4 at the Internet Movie Database
- (1996) Cremaster 1 at the Internet Movie Database
- (1997) Cremaster 5 at the Internet Movie Database
- (1999) Cremaster 2 at the Internet Movie Database
- (2002) Cremaster 3 at the Internet Movie Database
- (2005) Drawing Restraint 9 at the Internet Movie Database
- (2005) De Lama Lamina at the Internet Movie Database
- (2006) Destricted at the Internet Movie Database
[edit] External links
- The Cremaster Cycle Web Site
- The Drawing Restraint Web Site
- Barbara Gladstone Gallery
- PBS: Matthew Barney
- Matthew Barney at the Internet Movie Database
- Guggenheim Cremaster Lessons
- San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
- "Cremaster Fanatic", Conceptual Fan Site -- By Eric Doeringer
- Matthew Barney and Beyond -- analysis of Barney "in terms of power, askesis, impedance, force, and sliminess."
- "The Unbearable Lightness of Barney" by Ben Davis, Artnet Magazine
- Film Presentation Talk at Bablyon Theater Berlin, Wed. October 25, 2006 Preceding Barney and Beuys at Deutsche Guggenheim