MATTHEW BARNEY
(Born March 25, 1967)
Barney talking at Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC
An American artist who works in sculpture, photography,
drawing and film.
Boise, Idaho from
1973 to 1985, where he attended elementary,
middle, and high
school. His parents divorced and his mother moved to New York
City,
where he would
frequently visit, and where he was introduced to the
art scene. In 1989, he graduated from Yale University. His earliest
works,
created at Yale,
were staged at the university’s Payne Whitney
Gymnasium. In the 90s Barney moved to New York, where he worked as a
male model. Barney lives with his partner, singer Björk, with whom he
had a
daughter in 2002.
performance and video. Between 1994 and 2002 he
created the “CREMASTER Cycle”.
The best 2 well-known works: Drawing Restraint (2005)
Cremaster Cycle (1994-2002)
Barney as an actor in Cremaster Cycle No. 3
DRAWING RESTRAINT
(1987-Present)
Barney's theory is "Encumbrance can be used to strengthen an
artists output, much as resistance is used by athletes to build muscle"
In this video, Barney jumps on a trampoline which has been
set at
an angle, attempting to draw two linked field emblems on the
ceiling.
The ongoing Drawing Restraint series began in 1987 as a
series of studio
experiments, drawing upon an athletic model of
development in which
growth occurs only through restraint the
muscle encounters
resistance, becomes engorged and is broken
down, and in healing becomes stronger. In
literally restraining the
body while
attempting to make a drawing
The Drawing Restraint series is a project Barney began
while an
undergraduate at
Yale.
DRAWING RESTRAINT
1–6 1987–89
DRAWING RESTRAINT
7 1993
DRAWING RESTRAINT
8 2003
DRAWING RESTRAINT
9 2005
DRAWING RESTRAINT
10-16 2005-07
DRAWING RESTRAINT
17-18 2010
DRAWING RESTRAINT
19 2011-Present
CREMASTER CYCLE
(1994-2002)
An art project consisting of five feature length films,
together with
related sculptures,
photographs, drawings, and artist's books; it is
the best-known work
of American visual artist and filmmaker.
The films were not made in numerical order (1–5), but
rather in the
order 4, 1, 5, 2, 3
– precisely, 4 in 1994, 1 in 1995, 5 in 1997, 2 in
1999, 3 in 2002.
The films are significantly different in length; the
longest
(and last-made) is
#3, at over 3 hours, while the remaining four are
approximately 1 hour
each, for a total of approximately 7 hours.
#3 itself is almost
half the total length.
The five films progress from a state of undifferentiated gender (a
fully ascended cremaster muscle, represented by floating Goodyear
Blimps and other symbols), through the organism's struggle to resist
gender definition, to the inevitable point where maleness can no
longer be denied (complete descension of the cremaster and release
of the testes)Moreover, Barney usually talks about the vertical
movement and compare the high
building with a male sexual organ.
Biologically, the cremaster is a muscle that raises and lowers the
testicles. Barney uses the descension of the cremaster muscle as a
symbol for the onset of male gender (which they are thinking that
most of the artist got the inspriration from sex/gender)
CREMASTER No.3
Cremaster 3 have a lenght of 182 minutes (which counted as
the
longest film anong
the rest of them). The authors will see the
sculpture,
architecture and dancing and many more of strange
scenes, While the
story in the films is about the combination of a
legendary and the
mystery especially a Freemasin doctrine, the
Guinness whisky, the
Giant that can steal the time.
Cremaster3 is about the Chrysler Building in New York City
and
the power of create
and destroy from Richard Serra.
Another main character is the Entered Apprenticed (Matthew
Barney)
that trying to reach
to the top of the Chrysler Building from the lobby
and he will meet the
obstacle while he is going to the top, include
the event in the
Cloud cafe. And this is the most mentioned part of
the film by the
comentator that was about -the Apprentices got strip
off his clothes and
saw the male sexual organ that unusual from the
origin, got forced
to eat the car machine until his stomarch was
explode and the rest
of his organ were melting.
The commentator mentioned that Cremaster seems like movie Crash, Naked Lunch,
The Fly etc. but totally different from the fantasy movie The
lord of the rings, Harry Potter, Star wars. Pat Stear said that
“Those People who being familiar with
Barney’s art works will
exactly knows that he dont have any of purpose to make the author
understand his works ”
ELMGREEN & DRAGSET
Michael Elmgreen Born 1961 Copenhagen, Denmark
Ingar Dragset Born
1969 Trondheim, Norway.
They worked together
as an artist duo since 1995. Their work
explores the
relationship between art, architecture and design.
They are known for
art work that has wit and subversive humour,
and also addresses
serious cultural concerns.
The duo met in Copenhagen in 1995, when Michael Elmgreen,
was writing and
performing poetry, and Ingar Dragset, a Norwegian
was studying
theater. For the first 10 years of their artistic
collaboration, they
were a couple.
Since 1997, the
artists have presented a great number of
architectural and
sculptural installations in an ongoing series of
works entitled
“Powerless Structures” in which they transformed
the conventions of
the “white cube” gallery space, creating galleries
suspended from the
ceiling, sunk into the ground.
Social Mobility was part of their touring exhibition “The
Welfare
Show,” which was
investigating socio-political power structures.
Via a targeted
intervention in the function or functionality of a
waiting room, the
artists create room for new and altered
interpretations. The
sculptural installation morphs into the staged
scenery of a
psycho-architecture, spread out the hopelessness
of current social
conditions.
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