2/21/2023 0 Comments Matthew barneyBore, 2021 is a monumentally-scaled sculpture cast and modelled from a burnt tree, harvested from a forest fire area in Idaho. Accompanying the drawings are two new sculptures, titled Bore andīole. Question of how an artist possesses his subject. An explicit eroticism pervades these works, with the motif of the artist-as-voyeur revealing Barney’s interest in the central Accompanying Ovid’s theme is often a violent transformation within an idyllic landscape. Barney depicts extreme landscapes with an almost violent contrast between the natural and the technical, often displaying a harsh formal incongruity.Īmong the works on paper is a series of graphite drawings on pale pink paper titled the Metamorphoses drawings, after Ovid’s mythical tales. They take their palette from the forest fires and skies in the Idaho region where the film Redoubt was made and depict encounters between figures and landscapes and the technical apparatus of land management. The drawings on view comprise graphite and gouache on coloured paper, in polyethylene frames made by the artist. Drawing plays a primary role within his oeuvre it functions both as preparation, in the form of sketches in the planning stage of a film or exhibition project, and also as a pillar of Barney’s artistic expression, from the days of his early career until today. The title further complicates Barney’s statement that Redoubt is a portrait of a place, in all its complexity, beauty and ugliness.īarney works in distinct series which are developed over several years, creating work that fuses sculptural installations with performance, video, sculpture, printmaking, and drawing. The exhibition is titled after Ruby Ridge, the location of a deadly stand-off between a separatist family and federal agents in the mountains of Northern Idaho in the 1990’s. This is the artist’s first solo presentation with the gallery and his first exhibition in Berlin since Barney/Beuys at the Deutsche Guggenheim in 2007.įeaturing over twenty new drawings and two sculptures, the exhibition is part of a series of shows related to Barney’s feature-length film RedoubtĪll of the works draw from the film’s visual language, which plays in the remote Sawtooth mountains in Idaho and addresses such wide-ranging themes as cosmology, American frontier myths, and the role of artistic creation. Galerie Max Hetzler is to present After Ruby Ridge, a solo exhibition of recent works by Matthew Barney at Bleibtreustraße 45, Berlin. Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Max Hetzler Berlin | Paris | London Matthew Barney, Lodgepole Stand, (detail) 2021
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