| | | | | TimesTalks - A Life in Art Author: Matthew Barney and Michael Kimmelman
Format: Audio Download
Audio Length: 1 hour and 16 min.
Rating: Not
rated Price:
$8.95
| | | | |
Publisher's Summary: Matthew Barney, a sculptor and filmmaker, is best known for his Cremaster cycle, a series of five visually extravagant works created out of sequence. Mr. Barney's films generally feature the artist in myriad roles, such as a satyr, Harry Houdini and even the murderer Gary Gilmore. Beginning with Cremaster 4, the series reflects a mixture of history, autobiography, and mythology, a private universe of interconnected symbols and images. Released in 2002, the final film in the series (Cremaster 3) begins beneath the Chrysler Building and includes scenes of apparently dead costumed horses racing through a dream sequence at the Saratoga race track and the artist Richard Serra throwing hot Vaseline down the Guggenheim Museum's spiral ramp.Michael Kimmelman has been chief art critic of the New York Times since 1990. His book, Portraits: Talking with Artists at the Met, the Modern, the Louve and Elsewhere was selected in 1998 as a notable book of the year by both the Washington Post and the Times. Matthew Barney has been hailed by the New York Times' Michael Kimmelman, as "the most compelling, richly imaginative artist to emerge in years." In this interview with Kimmelman, Barney talks about the development of his epic, five-film Cremaster cycle. Barney explains the progression of locations and the characters, who range from magician Harry Houdini to murderer Gary Gilmore. The Guggenheim Museum in New York City is showing Barney's Cremaster films and related works through June 2003. |
