![]() ![]() The display is on two floors, so be sure to go upstairs to experience the complete exhibition. The San Francisco-born Cremaster maestro has given the pieces such curious titles as “Canoptic Chest,” “Secret Name,” and “Sacrificial Anode,” inviting visitors to venture into his surreal, engaging landscape, some of which Cremaster fans will get an extra kick out of as they recognize the references. ![]() The resulting sculptures, along with lovely, mysterious ink-on-paper “River Rouge” drawings and other related works, are on view in “DJED” at the Gladstone Gallery in Chelsea through October 22. Incorporating American automobiles, mythical figures, and such settings as a Chrysler dealership, a Detroit sewage treatment plant, and a glue factory, the rather unusual opera includes the pouring of hot metal onto the stage. Since 2007, multimedia installation artist, filmmaker, and former college football hero Matthew Barney has been developing Ancient Evenings, an ambitious collaboration with Jonathan Bepler inspired by Norman Mailer’s 1983 novel. Tuesday – Sunday through October 22, free, 10:00 am – 6:00 pm The libretto was produced in an edition of 2500 and was given away free as part of the exhibition.Matthew Barney, “Secret Name,” cast lead, polycaprolactone, copper, and zinc, 2008/2011 (photo by twi-ny/mdr)ĥ30 West 21st St. Responding to Redoubt by Eleanor Bauer and Molleen Theodore, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven CT, USA. Responding to Redoubt by Sandra Lamouche and Molleen Theodore, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven CT, USA. In addition to the text, the booklet also contained a number of shots from the performances along with images of the sculptures and drawings. 2019: Redoubt: An Evening with Matthew Barney, Morgan Library & Museum, New York NY, USA. As part of the exhibition, Barney produced a libretto, a short form booklet describing the project and the performances to date. In addition a number of drawings were presented which map the development of the project. In 2011, Barney had a solo exhibition at Gladstone Gallery in New York, at the centre of which was the cast of the car created during the Khu performance. ![]() Whilst the project was conceived as a live action piece, Barney has been filming each of the performances which will hopefully be exhibited in the future. For the remaining acts, the performances will move from Detroit to New York and will be performed over the coming years. Another returning collaborator is Aimee Mullins who takes on the part of Isis. Throughout all of these performances characters come and go performing the opera, created in collaboration with Jonathan Bepler who also worked on the Cremaster Cycle. The resulting molten iron is then released and poured into a cast of the underside of a car. The “body” of the car is ceremoniously transported down the Detroit river where it is then fed in to the furnaces of a disused steel mill. In the second act, KHU, the Chrysler Imperial is reincarnated as a Pontiac Firebird which makes its way through the streets of Detroit before crashing over the side of a bridge into the river below. In this act we witness the dismantling and destruction of the Chrysler as its badges and emblems are removed, signifying the first stage of death, Ren, the loss of your secret name. This epic undertaking transposes Mailer’s hypersexual story of Egyptian gods and the seven stages of death and reincarnation on to the rise and fall of American car industry, casting Cremaster 3’s 1967 Chrysler car as the main protagonist in the first act, REN. His singular vision foregrounds the physical rigors of sport and its. Matthew Barney’s latest project is a re-imagining and re-interpretation of Norman Mailer’s Ancient Evenings as an opera performed live in seven acts over a number of years. Matthew makes work that fuses sculptural installations with performance art and video. ![]()
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