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Barney MatthewBy the age of 24, Matthew Barney was being hailed as the “enfant terrible” of contemporary art. The American magazine Newsweek called him a representative of androgyny and a new decadence, and the German Der Spiegel, “a showman of mutants”, while Michael Kimmelmann of the New York Times acclaimed him as the main artist of his generation. He gained attention with his cycle, Cremaster, which consists of five films made over the course of almost 10 years — one of the most important and complex film works of the end of the twentieth century. |
Drawing Restraint 9Drawing Restraint 9 is a continuation of the Drawing Restraint series, which has been developing since 1987, in which while investigating the possibilities of creative action, he creates situations forcing him to break through the limitations of his own body by driving himself to the limits of human effort. The latest instalment of this project, Drawing Restraint 9 was made in 2005. It is a full-length film with a soundtrack composed by Björk, large-scale sculptures, photographs and drawings. This year’s ArtBoom Tauron Festival marked Krakow’s first showing of this extraordinary work of filmmaking, which draws on Shintoism, the Japanese tea ceremony, the history of whaling, and the replacement of whale oil with products created in the process of refining crude oil. The action takes place at a Japanese oil refinery, in a port city, and on the whaling ship Nisshin Maru. The hero is a gelatinous, “Barney-like” substance. In the background, the story of the voyage of two people (Barney and Björk) takes place, as they become lovers on board the ship. They give themselves over to Japanese customs in order to finally be joined in a cruel embrace. The film is filled with paradoxes, contrasts, conflict and tension, which the director creates between nature and tradition, pain and pleasure, and sea and land. |
12/06/2010
19:00 Drawing Restraint 9
19/06/2010
19:00 Drawing Restraint 9
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