Matthew Barney
Matthew Barney in full regalia as one of his characters in the Cremaster series.
Born	March 25, 1967 (1967-03-25) (age 40) Boise, Idaho
Occupation	Artist
Children	Ísadóra.

Matthew Barney (born March 25, 1967 in San Francisco, California) is a contemporary artist who works with film, video, installations, sculpture, photography, drawing and performance art. Barney has described himself as being primarily a sculptor.^[1] New York Times art critic Michael Kimmelman called Barney, "the most important American artist of his generation." Barney's work has been described as being part of "the legacy of the performance art of the 1960s and 1970s."^[2] Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... is the 84th day of the year (85th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1967 (MCMLXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar (the link is to a full 1967 calendar). ... Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... Nickname: Motto: Energy Peril Success Location of Boise in the State of Idaho Coordinates: , Country United States State Idaho County Ada Founded 1863 Incorporated 1864 Government  - Mayor David H. Bieter Area  - City  64 sq mi (165. ... The definition of an artist is wide-ranging and covers a broad spectrum of activities to do with creating art, practising the arts and/or demonstrating an art. ... is the 84th day of the year (85th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1967 (MCMLXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar (the link is to a full 1967 calendar). ... Nickname: Location of the City and County of San Francisco, California Coordinates: , Country United States of America State California City-County San Francisco Government  - Mayor Gavin Newsom Area  - City  47 sq mi (122 km²)  - Land  46. ... The definition of an artist is wide-ranging and covers a broad spectrum of activities to do with creating art, practising the arts and/or demonstrating an art. ... Film is a term that encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the motion picture industry. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Installation can be used to refer to Installation (computer programs) of an operating system or program. ... A sculpture is a three-dimensional object, which for the purposes of this article is man-made and selected for special recognition as art. ... Photography [fÓ™tÉ‘grÓ™fi:],[foÊŠtÉ‘grÓ™fi:] is the process of recording pictures by means of capturing light on a light-sensitive medium, such as a film or sensor. ... Drawing is a visual art which makes use of any number of drawing instruments to mark a two-dimensional medium. ... This article is about Performance art. ... The New York Times is an internationally known daily newspaper published in New York City and distributed in the United States and many other nations worldwide. ...

Barney spent his youth partially in Idaho, where he played football in Capital High School, and partially in New York City with his mother, who introduced him to art and museums. This intermingling of sports and art would inspire his later work as an artist. Barney entered Yale University planning on studying medicine, but became enamored with art and fashion. He received a B.A. from Yale in 1989. He also worked briefly as a model for Click Modeling Agency, and was in a J. Crew ad. Official language(s) English [1] Capital Boise Largest city Boise Area  Ranked 14th  - Total 83,642 sq mi (216,632 km²)  - Width 305 miles (491 km)  - Length 479 miles (771 km)  - % water 0. ... New York, New York and NYC redirect here. ... “Yale” redirects here. ... J.Crew is a mens and womens clothing and accessories company in the United States. ...

Barney lives with his partner, Icelandic singer Björk and their young daughter, Ísadóra, born October 3, 2002. Björk Guðmundsdóttir ( ) (born November 21, 1965 in Reykjavík, Iceland) is an Icelandic singer-songwriter and composer, as well as an occasional actress. ... is the 276th day of the year (277th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... For album titles with the same name, see 2002 (album). ...

Work

The film series The Cremaster Cycle is Barney's best-known work. The films have included very high budgets by experimental art film standards, and have featured such varied celebrities as Norman Mailer, Ursula Andress, and Richard Serra. Cremaster (films) The Cremaster Cycle is a sequence of five films by Matthew Barney, entitled Cremaster 1 to Cremaster 5. ... Norman Mailer, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1948 Norman Kingsley Mailer (born January 31, 1923) is an American novelist, journalist, playwright, screenwriter and film director. ... Ursula Andress (born 19 March 1936) is a Swiss actress and a major sex symbol of the 1960s. ... Fulcrum 1987, 55 ft high free standing sculpture of Cor-ten steel near Liverpool Street station, London Richard Serra (born 2 November 1939) is an American minimalist sculptor known for working with large scale assemblies of sheet metal. ...

In 2006, he released Drawing Restraint 9, a multimedia collaboration with his girlfriend Björk, who wrote the soundtrack. Drawing Restraint 9 is a feature-length art film by American artist Matthew Barney, dealing with the relationship between creativity and self-imposed resistance. ... ... Björk Guðmundsdóttir ( ) (born November 21, 1965 in Reykjavík, Iceland) is an Icelandic singer-songwriter and composer, as well as an occasional actress. ...

In interviews, Barney has mentioned the phenomenon of hypertrophy as a metaphorical inspiration for much of his work; several of his performance pieces have involved Barney restrained or somehow encumbered while attempting to execute a drawing. Bodybuilder Markus Rühl has marked hypertrophy of skeletal muscle. ...

A gallery show accompanying the Drawing Restraint 9 project appeared at Gladstone Gallery in New York, April 7-May 13, 2006, featuring thermoplastic sculptures associated with the film and the remains of a private project performed at the gallery April 2, 2006, titled Drawing Restraint 13: The Instrument of Surrender, for which Barney emerged from a crate dressed as General Douglas MacArthur, walked across a platform, and fell into a vat of petroleum jelly. Barney reused his motif of dressing as MacArthur in a show later that year (June 23 through September 17, 2006) at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. That performance involved Barney scaling to the roof of the museum in order to render a drawing on the ceiling surface. April 7 is the 97th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (98th in leap years). ... May 13 is the 133rd day of the year (134th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... For the Manfred Mann album, see 2006 (album). ... April 2 is the 92nd day of the year (93rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... For the Manfred Mann album, see 2006 (album). ... General of the Army Douglas MacArthur KCB (January 26, 1880 – April 5, 1964), was an American general and Field Marshal of the Philippines Army. ... Petroleum jelly, vaseline, petrolatum or soft paraffin [3] is a semi-solid mixture of hydrocarbons, originally promoted as a topical ointment for its healing properties. ... September 17 is the 260th day of the year (261st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... For the Manfred Mann album, see 2006 (album). ... San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2004). ...

Critical Opinions

Barney has recieved substantial praise for his idiosyncratic work. In a 2003 article in Time, Richard Lacayo stated that, "It's routine for [Barney] to be called the best artist of his generation." ^[3] Famed art critic Arthur C. Danto has praised the majority of Barney's work, noting the importance of Barney's use of sign systems such as Mason mythology.^[4] Time (whose trademark is capitalized TIME) is a weekly American newsmagazine, similar to Newsweek and U.S. News & World Report. ... Arthur Coleman Danto (b. ... Freemason and Freemasons redirect here. ...

Others have harshly criticized Barney. Jed Perl of The New Republic has described Barney's work as "phony-baloney mythopoetic movies, accompanied by dumpster loads of junk from some godforsaken gymnasium of the imagination."^[5] Calling his work a "snooze", Peter Schjeldahl of The New Yorker criticized Barney as being, "a star for attaining stardom."^[6] Another critic in the same magazine characterized elements in Drawing Restraint 9 as, "an unabashed display of Oriental kitsch that makes Memoirs of a Geisha look like an ethnographic documentary."^[7] Peter Schjeldahl was born in 1942 in Fargo, North Dakota. ... The New Yorker is an American magazine that publishes reportage, criticism, essays, cartoons, poetry and fiction. ... Kitsch (pronounced “kich” as in “rich”) is a term of German origin that has been used to categorize art that is considered an inferior copy of an existing style. ... Memoirs of a Geisha is a novel by Arthur Golden, published in 1997. ... Ethnography (from the Greek ethnos = nation and graphe = writing) refers to the qualitative description of human social phenomena, based on months or years of fieldwork. ...

Prizes

• Hugo Boss Prize, Guggenheim Museum, 1996
• Skowhegan Medal for Combined Media, 1999
• James D. Phelan Art Award in Video, Bay Area Video Coalition, 2000
• Europa 2000 Prize
• Glen Dimplex Artists Award, Irish Museum of Modern Art, 2001

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See also

Barney, Matthew. Cremaster 3. Guggenheim, dist. by D.A.P. 2002. photogs. ISBN 0-89207-253-9. pap. $49.95. FINE ARTS

"Matthew Barney: The Cremaster Cycle": at the Guggenheim Museum, New York. Catalogue published by Harry N. Abrams; 544 pages;

Notable works

• (1995) Cremaster 4 at the Internet Movie Database
• (1996) Cremaster 1 at the Internet Movie Database
• (1997) Cremaster 5 at the Internet Movie Database
• (1999) Cremaster 2 at the Internet Movie Database
• (2002) Cremaster 3 at the Internet Movie Database
• (2005) Drawing Restraint 9 at the Internet Movie Database
• (2005) De Lama Lamina at the Internet Movie Database
• (2006) Destricted at the Internet Movie Database

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References and notes

External links

• The Cremaster Cycle Web Site
• The Drawing Restraint Web Site
• Barbara Gladstone Gallery
• PBS: Matthew Barney
• Matthew Barney at the Internet Movie Database
• Guggenheim Cremaster Lessons
• San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
• "I DIE DAILY: The Making of Matthew Barney's Cremaster Cycle", Feature Documentary --by Matthew Wallin
• "Cremaster Fanatic", Conceptual Fan Site -- By Eric Doeringer
• Matthew Barney and Beyond -- analysis of Barney "in terms of power, askesis, impedance, force, and sliminess."
• "The Unbearable Lightness of Barney" by Ben Davis, Artnet Magazine
• Film Presentation Talk at Bablyon Theater Berlin, Wed. October 25, 2006 Preceding Barney and Beuys at Deutsche Guggenheim