MATTHEW BARNEY CREMASTER 3
by matsonjones, 05.02.02 04:41 pm
Well, the final installment in the Cremaster cycle premiered last night, and I'm wondering if anybody else out there saw it.
It's such a massive undertaking and gesture as well as being a kind of summation of a nine year body of work, that I have to say I don't quite know what to think yet, and maybe that's cool. Regardless, an extremely powerful and provocative visual experience, one that I think will resonate with me for a very, very long time.
Re: MATTHEW BARNEY CREMASTER 3
by cutup (05.03.02 01:31 pm)
I saw the last - not this Cremaster film and was so disappointed with Barney's self-indulgence.
Hope this one is better.
I am most impressed that he lives with Bjork who I think is fabulous.
Re: MATTHEW BARNEY CREMASTER 3
by JeffD (05.03.02 01:41 pm)
And Bjork is 5 months preganant with Barney's love child.
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by matsonjones (05.03.02 03:25 pm)
Hmmmm...... I agree about the self indulgent point - but isn't all art a bit that way? Sometimes it seems the MORE indulgent it is, the better, although to other people that seems counter intuitive.
In the case of C3, I imagine the criticism of being self indulgent could be leveled (and I guess I'd agree in some way), but that self indulgence is one of the main reasons that Barney's work is so interesting to me - he seems to be one of the very few artists I've come across in some time to have really invented their own visual language, and that's no mean feat.
That's not to say that his work doesn't reference earlier models - nothing is created ex nihilo - but very rare is the artist who creates their own language, rather than just appropriating from others - and self indulgence is necessary to acheive that.
Re: MATTHEW BARNEY CREMASTER 3
by missmarymack (05.03.02 05:25 pm)
Hooray! I hope they dress the baby in one of those swan suits.
Re: MATTHEW BARNEY CREMASTER 3
by all i got was this lousy (05.03.02 10:44 pm)
Mathews work is genius
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by cutup (05.04.02 11:47 am)
His first show at Barbara Gladstone gallery got everybody excited both metaphorically and literally.
A handsome, muscled man was climbing the gallery walls; vaseline was sloshed onto gynecological instruments which made them shiny and disgusting - seductive and repulsive at the same time.
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by Art Boner (05.06.02 05:17 pm)
maybe the baby will star in the next vasoline cycle. or the diaper rash cycle.
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by Lazlo Puskas (05.06.02 07:08 pm)
Barney Barney Barney
I think people talk about his work so much mainly because there are VERY few artists being shown who have the guts (or intelligence) to develope large-scale, convoluted work rife with literary and historical ideas. There are so many one liners out there that you can't help talking about Barney, even if you don't like his work.
Where is Götterdammerung being shown? Was it a one night thing or is it at the Film Forum like before (If this is a NY thing that is...)
Re: MATTHEW BARNEY CREMASTER 3
by matsonjones (05.07.02 10:57 am)
The film was shown on 1 May, one night only at the Ziegfeld, as a fundraiser.
It will have a two or three week run at the Film Forum in the very near future. You can probably call Film Forum or Barbara Gladstone Gallery for details.
Re: MATTHEW BARNEY CREMASTER 3
by all i got was this lousy (05.15.02 12:46 pm)
NY Times
www.nytimes.com/
- i don't know about all of that but whatever,
i thought CM3 looked contrived during the press preview but i was totaly into it in the end, the film was fab. but for all the wrong reasons, - word on the street is he was approched by some major main stream film Co. i think that says something.
Re: MATTHEW BARNEY CREMASTER 3
by morsa (02.02.03 01:02 am)
Cremasturbation. Cremasturbation. Cremasturbation Cremasturbation. Cremasturbation.
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by gurelli (02.09.03 06:02 am)
Do any one know any contact info of Barney's studio in NY? I have to reach... thanx