With the five-part Cremaster Cycle of films, multi-award-winning artist Matthew Barney invented a densely layered and interconnected sculptural world that surreally combines sports, biology, sexuality, history, and mythology as it organically evolves. In this program, Barney, Guggenheim curator Nancy Spector, and others deconstruct the Cycle’s filming and subsequent translation into sculptural installations. The locations, characters, and symbols that organize the Cycle films; the Cycle installations as spatial content carriers and extensions of the performances; and objectification of the body and undifferentiated sexuality are addressed, as are the intricacies of costuming, makeup, and sculpting with Barney’s signature materials: plastic, metal, and Vaseline.
Anna Maria Tapeiner
Director
The Art of the Steal69%
Struggle: The Life and Lost Art of Szukalski75%
Naqoyqatsi61%
National Gallery73%
Sherman's March67%
Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God73%
Seduced and Abandoned62%
Downloaded64%
I Want to Return Return Return67%
David Bowie: Five Years75%
Chadwick Boseman: A Tribute for a King81%
The Making of 'Terminator 2: Judgment Day'71%
Drew: The Man Behind the Poster69%
42 Up75%
Burma VJ: Reporter i et lukket land72%
Made You Look: A True Story About Fake Art67%
Extremis69%
A Plastic Ocean75%
Avatar: Creating the World of Pandora64%
As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty77%
