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Matthew Barney is an acclaimed American artist who explores themes of geography, biology, and mythology through his groundbreaking sculptures, films, and drawings. He is best known for his acclaimed Cremaster Cycle, a series of experimental films that showcase his unique artistic vision.
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Matthew Barneyis an American contemporary artist and film director who works in the fields of sculpture, film, photography and drawing. His works explore connections among geography, biology, geology and mythology as well as notable themes of sex, intercourse, and conflict. His early pieces were sculptural installations combined with performance and video. Between 1994 and 2002, he created The Cremaster Cycle, a series of five films described by Jonathan Jones in The Guardian as “one of the most imaginative and brilliant achievements in the history of avant-garde cinema.” He is also known for his projects Drawing Restraint 9and Redoubt (2018).
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Matthew Barney is an American contemporary artist and film director who works in the fields of sculpture, film, photography and drawing.
Matthew Barney’s works explore connections among geography, biology, geology and mythology as well as notable themes of sex, intercourse, and conflict.
Between 1994 and 2002, Matthew Barney created The Cremaster Cycle, a series of five films described by Jonathan Jones in The Guardian as ‘one of the most imaginative and brilliant achievements in the history of avant-garde cinema.’
Matthew Barney is also known for his projects Drawing Restraint 9 (2005), River of Fundament (2014) and Redoubt (2018).
Matthew Barney was born on March 25, 1967 and is an American contemporary artist and film director.
7 Quotes by Matthew Barney
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A lot of these angles are really about trying to mimic broadcast sports angles in order to anchor the scene, to sort of normalize it before it becomes abstracted.
Matthew BarneyAmerican sculptor and filmmaker
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A lot of my work has to do with not allowing my characters to have an ego in a way that the stomach doesn’t have an ego when it’s wanting to throw up. It just does it.
Matthew BarneyAmerican sculptor and filmmaker
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Jackass: The Movie is great. I think it’s in the tradition of physical comedy, which I’m really interested in. Its relationship to gravity, and how gravity acts on the body.
Matthew BarneyAmerican sculptor and filmmaker
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An interesting thing happened in 1989, right as I was graduating: the stock market crashed and really changed the landscape of the art world in New York. It made the kind of work I was doing interesting to galleries that wouldn’t have normally been interested in it.
Matthew BarneyAmerican sculptor and filmmaker
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I’ve always thought of the project as a sort of sexually driven digestive system, that it was a consumer and a producer of matter. And it is desire driven, rather than driven by hunger or anything like that.
Matthew BarneyAmerican sculptor and filmmaker
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I have a need to make these sorts of connections literal sometimes, and a vehicle often helps to do that. I have a relationship to car culture. It isn’t really about loving cars. It’s sort of about needing them.
Matthew BarneyAmerican sculptor and filmmaker
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Somebody like Mailer brings to that role everything that he stands for. The types of characters that I gravitate towards, the types of icons, tend to have a heavy physicality in that way.
Matthew BarneyAmerican sculptor and filmmaker