Matthew Barney
Matthew Barney was born in San Francisco in 1967; at age six, he moved to Idaho with his family. After his parents divorced, Barney continued to live with his father in Idaho, playing football on his high school team, and visiting his mother in New York City, where he was introduced to art and museums. This intermingling of sports and art informs his work as a sculptor and filmmaker. After graduating from Yale in 1991, Barney entered the art world to almost instant controversy and success.
River of Fundament
as The Ka of Norman / Osiris: James Lee ByersVisionary artist Matthew Barney returns to cinema with this 3-part epic, a radical reinvention...
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Cremaster 3
as The Entered ApprenticeCREMASTER 3 (2002) is set in New York City and narrates the construction of the Chrysler...
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Redoubt
as EngraverThe goddess Diana and her two attendants traverse the rugged terrain of Idaho’s Sawtooth...
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Cremaster 5
as Diva / Giant / MagicianCremaster 5 is a five-act opera (sung in Hungarian) set in late-ninteenth century Budapest. The...
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Cremaster 2
as Gary GilmoreCREMASTER 2 (1999) is rendered as a gothic Western that introduces conflict into the system. On...
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Cremaster 4
as The Loughton CandidateCREMASTER 4 (1994) adheres most closely to the project's biological model. This penultimate...
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Drawing Restraint 9
as Occidental GuestThe film concerns the theme of self-imposed limitation and continues Matthew Barney's interest...
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Matthew Barney: No Restraint
as SelfHow does artist Matthew Barney use 45,000 pounds of petroleum jelly, a factory whaling vessel...
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Blind Perineum
as HimselfA "video action" in which Barney crosses the ceiling of the Gladstone Gallery using a harness...
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Secondary
as Ken StablerSecondary maps two different narratives onto each other, using movement as the formal...
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The Body as Matrix: Matthew Barney's Cremaster Cycle
as HimselfWith the five-part Cremaster Cycle of films, multi-award-winning artist Matthew Barney invented...
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Instrument of Surrender
as Douglas MacArthurAmerican WWII soldiers open a mold, exposing a solid architectural structure made entirely of...
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