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	Matthew Barney - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Matthew Barney (born March 25, 1967 in San Francisco, California) is a contemporary media artist working with film, video installations, sculpture, photography and drawing.
		Barney spent his youth partially in Idaho, where he regularly played football in his high school team and gave a graduation speech about sperm, and partially in New York City with his mother, who introduced him to art and museums.
		Matthew Barney won the Europa 2000 prize at the 45th Venice Biennale in 1993.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Matthew_Barney (327 words)

	Guggenheim Collection - Artist - Barney - Biography
		Barney’s ritualistic actions unfold in hybrid spaces that evoke at once a training camp and medical research laboratory, equipped as they are with wrestling mats and blocking sleds, sternal retractors and speculums, and a range of props often cast in, or coated with, viscous substances such as wax, tapioca, and petroleum jelly.
		Barney’s exploration of the body draws upon an athletic model of development, in which growth occurs only through restraint: the muscle encounters resistance, becomes engorged and is broken down, and in healing becomes stronger.
		Matthew Barney: The Cremaster Cycle, an exhibition of artwork from the entire cycle organized by the Guggenheim Museum, premiered at the Museum Ludwig, Cologne in June 2002 and subsequently traveled to the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York.
	www.guggenheimcollection.org /site/artist_bio_11A.html (696 words)

	Art:21 . Matthew Barney . Biography . Documentary Film \| PBS
		Matthew Barney was born in San Francisco in 1967; at age six, he moved to Idaho with his family.
		After his parents divorced, Barney continued to live with his father in Idaho, playing football on his high school team, and visiting his mother in New York City, where he was introduced to art and museums.
		Matthew Barney won the prestigious Europa 2000 prize at the 45th Venice Biennale in 1996.
	www.pbs.org /art21/artists/barney (301 words)

	Self-Portraiture Meets Mythology: Matthew Barney Talks About His "Cremaster Cycle"
		Matthew Barney's "Cremaster 3" -- which is actually the fifth and final installment in his quintet of highly personal, avant-garde fables -- opens and closes with scenes set at Fingal's Cave in Scotland and Giant's Causeway in Northern Ireland.
		Matthew Barney: It probably has to do with the fact that the project began as an extension of a sculpture practice, and it wasn't originally intended to end up in cinemas.
		Barney: As the films stood on their own more, in the case of "Cremaster 2" and "3," it sort of elevated my interest in trying to make them resonate as films while still functioning within the cycle as object makers.
	www.indiewire.com /people/people_030515barney.html (2993 words)

	Matthew Barney Artist Page
		In 1991, Matthew Barney exploded onto the New York art scene with all the force of his often insanely physical videos.
		Barney spent about $1 million of his own money on each installment of the series, earning it back through the sale of sculptures that were used as props in the films, as well as books and installations derived from them.
		Barney’s films are wordless and packed with cryptic, relentlessly cross-referencing, often autobiographical symbols.
	digitalconsciousness.com /artists/MatthewBarney (376 words)

	The Importance of Matthew Barney
		Barney's enterprise is vaguely akin to one of those movies in which Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland's little gang pitches in to produce a play, except that in Barney's case the results are, to put it mildly, different.
		In Barney's mind, this would be the ultimate escape, an escape from fate, although Barney prefers the word that Houdini used, "metamorphosis," which suggests a defiance or contradiction of one's normal condition (like the weight-lifter's bench made of Vaseline or the artist in a cocktail dress).
		Gabe Bartalos, Barney's prosthetics and special-effects wizard, a cheerful, burly man from Los Angeles, has manufactured a fake bull, incredibly realistic, for the part of the scene when the bull is supposed to be dying, with a pump inside it to simulate breathing.
	www.filmforum.org /cremaster/barneynytimesmag.html (5163 words)

	Tate Britain \| Past Exhibitions \| Art Now: Matthew Barney
		Barney has adapted the work for display in the Art Now room at the Tate, where it is shown in a single space divided by an ascending wall.
		In the video films, Barney has created richly allusive fiction, which blends, in a web of metaphor and association; the 'science' of body- building, the game of American foot- ball with its moves, formations and field of play, and the internal functioning of the body.
		Barney introduces the '00' numbered shirt worn by Jim Otto as a symbol which connects the external activities of Otto (his running, catching and tackling) with the body's internal workings.
	www.tate.org.uk /britain/exhibitions/artnow/matthewbarney/default.shtm (1777 words)

	Matthew Barney versus Donkey Kong: Post Road #10
		Barney explains, “This scene was shot in the rotunda of the Guggenheim Museum on the different levels and feels almost like a video game.
		The Guggenheim exhibit, Matthew Barney: The Cremaster Cycle (February 2002–June 2003), allowed Barney to show Cremaster 3 in the physical space in which the film was set—an opportunity not yet given to a game designer.
		Barney uses the building as an interface, confronting the Guggenheim with the goal of creating a single piece of art.
	www.postroadmag.com /10/criticism/Bremser_Barney.phtml (1512 words)

	eyestorm - article - Matthew Barney
		Barney was born in San Francisco in 1967 and studied medicine before becoming an artist, an education that explains something of the precision of his invented anatomies and the anatomical title of his best known work, the 'Cremaster' series.
		Barney's 'Cremaster' is a massively ambitious project centred on five films, of which four have been shown to date - Cremaster 4 in 1994, Cremaster 1 in 1995-96, Cremaster 5 in 1997 and Cremaster 2 in 1999.
		Barney's more recent work has something in common with Cindy Sherman's masquerading self-portrait photographs or the cinema and performance art of Jack Smith - but he takes their exploration of selfhood and sexuality and somehow makes it asexual, post-sexual.
	www.eyestorm.com /feature/ED2n_article.asp?article_id=30&artist_id=96 (1657 words)

	Matthew Barney \| Interviewed
		Matthew Barney's Cremaster 2 is a deathly evocation of American landscape and American ways, a mythological, murderous masterpiece that confirms what his fans have been saying for some time - that Barney is a Great American Artist.
		It has a story in which Gary Gilmore, played by Barney, kills a gas-station attendant and is executed by his own consent in a savage rodeo at an arena on Utah's salt flats.
		Matthew Barney's Cremaster 2, was presented by Artangel.
	www.postmedia.net /999/barney.htm (1819 words)

	Stunned Art : Matthew Barney Interview
		Just in case you hadn’t heard, Cremaster is a series of video work by American artist Matthew Barney which enthusiastic critics are comparing to Wagner’s Ring cycle.
		Just in case you didn’t know, the cremaster is a set of muscles in the male that raises and lowers the testes with the change in temperature outside.
		Matthew Barney came to Dublin and brought his Cremaster, but like any good artist (especially one who would consider the magician Houdini a role model), he gave none of his secrets away.
	www.stunned.org /barney.htm (1016 words)

	Guggenheim Museum - Matthew Barney
		Matthew Barney's epic Cremaster cycle (1994–2002) is a self-enclosed aesthetic system consisting of five feature-length films that explore processes of creation.
		Barney's photographs—framed in plastic and often arranged in diptychs and triptychs that distill moments from the plot—often emulate classical portraiture.
		Staged as a perverse competition with Barney as its sole contestant, "The Order" deploys five levels of the Guggenheim's spiraling ramps in an allegory representing the five chapters of the cycle.
	www.guggenheim.org /exhibitions/past_exhibitions/barney/introduction/index.html (475 words)

	Barney - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Barney and Friends, a children's TV show (about Barney, a dinosaur)
		Barney Google, a character in a comic strip of the same name
		Barney Miller, an American TV show from the 1970s
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Barney (168 words)

	boca - calendar
		CremasterFanatic.com appears to be a "fan site" dedicated to Matthew Barney but is actually a conceptual artwork exploring the idea of fandom and the intersection between the art world and popular culture.
		Doeringer chose Barney as a subject over other "art stars" because Barney's photogenic features and romance with Icelandic pop singer Bjork have propelled his celebrity beyond the confines of the art world.
		Matthew Barney is widely regarded as one of today's most important artists.
	www.sfboca.com /art2.html (302 words)

	Matthew Barney Envy
		After his parents divorced, Barney spent his youth playing high school football in his native Idaho and visiting his mother in New York City, where he was introduced to the world of art.
		Barney's idea for "De Lama Lamina" began six years ago when the artist attended Carnival and decided he wanted to film something with a live audience, in contrast to the meticulously planned "Cremaster" movies, which took 10 years to make.
		It's not as far out as it might seem, the idea that Matthew Barney could on some sort of conceptual plane, at least, envy me. I remember a couple of years back, well, more than that like in 1998 when I was heading off to Roraima to cover fires in the Amazon.
	www.matthewbarneyenvy.blogspot.com (2704 words)

	Matthew Barney: No Restraint - Film Reviews - Film - Entertainment
		Barney's work strikes me as mostly boring as well as ludicrously pretentious, but I can't deny his gift for hocus-pocus: his films defend themselves automatically against critical attacks, in part by gesturing towards an elaborate system of meanings hidden beneath a glossy, arbitrary surface.
		Bjork is very human, but humanity is something that Barney apparently strives to transcend: if there's one authentically intriguing (and creepy) aspect to what he does, it's the view of flesh — or its latex imitation — as just another material to be moulded into different forms.
		From this angle, Barney's father provides the documentary's single most fascinating tidbit: as a youth, we're told, Barney was not only a trained athlete but also dreamt of becoming a plastic surgeon.
	www.theage.com.au /news/film-reviews/matthew-barney-no-restraint/2006/05/10/1146940607774.html (559 words)

	SF360:Features - Matthew Barney, "Drawing Restraint," getting attention
		His five-part "Cremaster Cycle" of films, as well as Barney's sculpture, photography, and drawings, was the subject of a massive traveling exhibition that climaxed in 2003 at New York's Guggenheim Museum, where the three-hour opus was set.
		Barney: I was pretty turned on by the possibility of the films being able to exist on their own in a cinema while still functioning for me as making sculpture, as a text that I could pull sculpture from.
		Barney: I thought of the tea ceremony as a way to bring two people together and be enabled by a host.
	www.sf360.org /features/2006/06/matthew_barney.html (1837 words)

	Amazon.com: Matthew Barney: The Cremaster Cycle: Books: Nancy Spector,Neville Wakefield (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Filled with hundreds of Matthew Barney's fantastical images, this comprehensive volume, which accompanies a major exhibition at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, surveys the popular artist's CREMASTER cycle—an epic five-part film project that uses the biological model of sexual difference as its conceptual departure point.
		Barney is a master of the capitalist side of the fine art world...and no doubt knew that if he reproduced the works he has sold in tandem with the release of each film, his auction prices would suffer.
		Barney sold several "artist framed" suites of photos from each film...which act as stand alone pieces of work to be consumed by collectors and institutions.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0810969351?v=glance (1728 words)

	Tate Magazine Issue 2: Matthew Barney
		Barney is journeying alone in his efforts to build a parallel mythological world that probes deeply the dilemmas and traumas that shape our time.
		Barney's work feeds voraciously from histories and cultures and offers back forms and fictions, which may help us understand what we are and where we are going.
		Born in 1967 in San Francisco, Matthew Barney was brought up between Idaho, where he lived with his father, and New York, where he first encountered art during visits to his mother.
	www.tate.org.uk /magazine/issue2/barney.htm (2738 words)

	SFMOMA \| Exhibitions \| Matthew Barney (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Since 1994, Barney has completed three sections of the series-in-progress, beginning with Cremaster 4 (1994) and Cremaster 1 (1995), which will be the fourth and first films in the completed cycle.
		Barney's attention to transformation as a subject links the processes of the athlete, the artist, and the alchemist to endurance spectacles of opera or sports--or to conflicts and differentiation of gender--with other sexual subjects revealing his creative obsessions.
		Credits: Written and directed by Matthew Barney; director of photography, Peter Strietmann; music composed by Jonathan Bepler, performed by the Budapest Opera and Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Gergely Kaposi.
	www.sfmoma.org /exhibitions/exhib_detail/98_exhib_barney_cremaster.html (306 words)

	Matthew Barney News
		In the video, Barney signs a number of drawings (which were later hung in the exhibition) with an electric engraving pen and stamps them with a field emblem-shaped brand that has been heated over a bunsen burner.
		It appeared that Barney had performed Drawing Restraint 13 in the afternoon prior to the opening (I'm judging this by the footprints in the Vaseline core of a sculpture called Drawing Restraint 13 at the entrance to the gallery and because there was a crew packing up some film equipment).
		In anticipation of Matthew Barney's new show at Barbara Gladstone Gallery (opening April 7), CremasterFanatic.com is holding an exhibition of Matthew Barney inspired art, video, and music at Jack the Pelican Presents, 487 Driggs Avenue, Brooklyn, New York.
	www.cremasterfanatic.com /News.html (4624 words)

	MATTHEW BARNEY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		For the first time in France, Matthew Barney presents the Cremaster cycle in its entirety, in an unique installation that combines the languages of cinema and sculpture.
		Matthew Barney, David Hammons, Gary Hume, Callum Innes, Emma Kay, Paul D. Miller aka DJ Spooky, Cady Noland, Marc Quinn, Mark Wallinger.
		The latest installment in Matthew Barney's ongoing series of cinematic OPERAS, traces the rise and fall of antihero Gary Gilmore - convicted killer and alleged grandso of Harry Houdini.
	www.undo.net /artinpress/artist/MATTHEW_BARNEY.html (1661 words)

	At the Movies: The Cremaster Cycle
		Matthew Barney's epic series of five films explore the processes of creation and take their conceptiual departure point form the male cremaster muscle which controls testicular contractions in response to external stimuli — the films are beautiful, wildly imaginative and have a wicked sense of humour.
		Matthew Barney’s 'Cremaster Cycle' is about to be released in cinemas in this country for the first time.
		This quintet of films which Barney made over ten years not in chronological order - the hugely impressive 'Cremaster 3' which runs for three hours was the final one he made — has been shown mainly in art galleries and museums.
	www.abc.net.au /atthemovies/txt/s1169733.htm (386 words)

	WAC \| Calendar \| May 2003 \| Matthew Barney: The Cremaster Cycle
		The mesmeric power of Matthew Barney's parallel filmic universe lies in its inevitable acceptance of an agenda that is ultimately human in its aspirations.
		Barney began his Cremaster cycle in 1994 when he was 27.
		Barney will be on hand to provide insight into his Cremaster work in a Regis Dialogue with Walker Chief Curator Richard Flood on May 6.
	www.walkerart.org /archive/C/B27371903720BA536174.htm (636 words)

	Matthew Barney and Beyond
		These "facilities to defeat the facility of drawing," as Barney called them, necessitated that the artist pounce on a trampoline, climb ramps while straining at the end of tethers, and push blocking sleds (used to develop line skills in football training) simply in order to draw.
		This anti-idolatry in Barney's work is the expression of a force complementary to that one which grows, increases, and accumulates in power: it is that which liquefies, melts, disintegrates — that which corrodes idols.
		Barney has said that his interest in the creature derives partly from the fact "that 'Pan' is the root of 'panic.' It's because Pan leads you to Bacchus — he gives you the moment of unease before you let yourself go."
	supervert.com /essays/art/matthew_barney (1483 words)

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