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| | Chicago Art Hub: Artbreak |
 | | In 1991, the New York art world was wowed by the first solo exhibition of an artist who, at the age of 24, had already lived the lives of a football player, J. Crew model and Yale pre-med student before turning to the studio. |
 | | The work was undeniably strange, but also wittily engaged a variety of established artistic themes - the aesthetics of the human form, the bodily gesture of the artist, endurance, the nature of the contemplated object, the meaning of materials and more. |
 | | Barney has continued from this auspicious start by creating the vast, ambitious "Cremaster" project (referring to the cremaster muscle, which controls the ascension and descension of the testicles), a series of visually and conceptually lush feature films, installations, objects and photographs. |
| www.newcitychicago.com /issues/thisweek/artbreak.html (246 words) |
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