#MATTHEW BARNEY NEWS SERIES#

#MATTHEW BARNEY NEWS SERIES#

Functioning much like a surrealist “exquisite corpse,” the exhibition sets in motion a series of chain reactions between artworks-a domino effect of intense proximities. As any gift, it is a complex tangle of generosity and self-interest.Īs in a chess game, several artists have been invited to “make a move” by selecting artworks and objects from the collection in response, Joannou and Gioni countered by choosing other pieces. sadra Bjarkardttir Barney, 19 known as Doa was at the centre of a dispute between her parents after her father, artist and film director Matthew Barney, took legal action against her. Part-divertissement and part-collaborative project, this small exhibition borrows its title from a chess tactic-the “Greek gift sacrifice.” This move, for which a player sacrifices a bishop in order to checkmate, in turn is believed to have been named after the mythical gift of the Trojan Horse from the Achaeans to the city of Troy. Season 1 Read Conversation Starter When is fear friendly Why might artists use existing Hollywood genres, like horror, slasher, or murder mystery, to create new narratives What do these new narratives suggest Interview CREMASTER 3 (Guggenheim) Artist Matthew Barney discusses the creation of the final film in his CREMASTER cycle: CREMASTER 3. This presentation doubles as a portrait of the collector and serves as a miniature survey of his collection.Ĭoordinated by Massimiliano Gioni, The Greek Gift brings together a series of new and existing works, alongside found objects and impromptu responses from a variety of artists who have maintained decades-long relationships with Dakis Joannou and the DESTE Foundation. Showtimes and ticket links for the rest of the series will be available for purchase one week in advance of their first screenings.Featured in THE GREEK GIFT at the DESTE Foundationįollowing the postponement of a special project by Jeff Koons commissioned for the DESTE Foundation’s Project Space at the old Slaughterhouse in Hydra, Greece, due to COVID-19, a group of artists and friends of Dakis Joannou and the Foundation have come together to swiftly organize a small group show. Remaining films in The Cremaster Cycle will play on select dates through the first week of June. I’m delighted to bring it to Metrograph this spring in tandem with the premiere of my new film work Secondary -on public view in my Long Island City studio concurrently, from May 12 – June 25, 2023.”–Matthew Barney

“The Cremaster Cycle had its debut in New York and has not been screened in the city since 2015. Of The Cremaster Cycle, Matthew Barney’s nine-year cinematic undertaking that would help cement his place as one of the premier artists to emerge in the 1990s, Barney would state that he “was trying to take on a cinematic language that I had not dealt with before… to see how this sculptural project could align itself with the cinematic form.” Named for the muscle responsible for raising and lowering the testicles in response to temperature, each of the Cremaster films is an allegory-rich, visually stunning, and sprawling investigation into questions involving sexual development and the act of creation, a towering achievement that we’re screening on the occasion of the appearance of Barney’s new studio installation, Secondary, with the artist himself joining us in the theater with writer Maggie Nelson.

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