Matthew Barney – The Cremaster Cycle
"Anyone can have an intimate relationship with the Cremaster
films or the sculptures ... anyone can access them from any point; form
fashion, horror movies, architecture, drawing, photography, football, plastics—or
just story-telling. The whole project is so porous; there are a million
ways to enter it."
–Matthew D. Ryle. production Designer, Cremasters 1,2,3,
and 5
Introduction
Matthew Barney is best known as the producer and creator of the Cremaster
cycle, a series of five visually extravagant films created out of sequence
(Cremaster
4 began the cycle, followed by Cremaster 1, etc.). The films
generally feature Barney in myriad roles, including characters as diverse
as a satyr, a magician, and even the infamous murderer Gary Gilmore. [more]
About the
artist
Matthew Barney was born in San Francisco in 1967; at age six, he
moved to Boise, Idaho. When his parents separated, Barney continued to
live with
his father
in Idaho,
while his mother, an abstract painter, moved to New York City.
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Sculpture and Drawing
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