19.06.2010
A sound and visual feast. Barney at Uciecha Cinema-Theatre
Today at 7 p.m. at Uciecha Cinema-Theatre, Matthew Barney’s Drawing Restraint 9 will be shown for the last time. The soundtrack was composed by Björk, the artist’s life partner.
At the early age of 24 Barney was already acclaimed the “enfant terrible” of contemporary art. American “Newsweek” magazine called him the representative of androgyny and the new decadence, whist German “Der Spiegel” – “the showman of the mutants”, and Michael Kimmelmann of the “New York Times” acclaimed him as the main artist of the generation. The artist gained publicity with the cycle titled Cremaster, which is made up of five films shot over 10 years – one of the most important and complex pieces of the end of the 20th Century.
Drawing Restraint 9 is a sound and visual feast, which must not be missed! The film is full of paradoxes, contrasts, contradictions and tension which the director creates between nature and tradition, pain and pleasure, water and land. All of this finds justification towards the end of the film, revealing a meticulously woven net of narrations.
At the early age of 24 Barney was already acclaimed the “enfant terrible” of contemporary art. American “Newsweek” magazine called him the representative of androgyny and the new decadence, whist German “Der Spiegel” – “the showman of the mutants”, and Michael Kimmelmann of the “New York Times” acclaimed him as the main artist of the generation. The artist gained publicity with the cycle titled Cremaster, which is made up of five films shot over 10 years – one of the most important and complex pieces of the end of the 20th Century.
Drawing Restraint 9 is a sound and visual feast, which must not be missed! The film is full of paradoxes, contrasts, contradictions and tension which the director creates between nature and tradition, pain and pleasure, water and land. All of this finds justification towards the end of the film, revealing a meticulously woven net of narrations.
