MATTHEW BARNEY
The Cremaster Cycle and Select Early Works (event)
Metrograph, New York
Wednesday, 17 May 2023, 7 pm
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Metrograph is proud to announce ‘Matthew Barney: The Cremaster Cycle and Select Early Works’, bringing Barney's iconic Cremaster Cycle back to New York over the course of four evenings and a special one-night engagement of re-mastered early works. The first screening in the series will take place on Wednesday, 17 May with Cremaster 4 and Cremaster 1.
Of The Cremaster Cycle, Matthew Barney’s nine-year cinematic undertaking that would help cement his place as one of the premier art world figures to emerge in the 1990s, the artist would state that he “was trying to take on a cinematic language that I had not dealt with before… to see how this sculptural project could align itself with the cinematic form.” Named for the muscle responsible for raising and lowering the testicles in response to temperature, each of the Cremaster films is an allegory-rich, visually stunning, and sprawling investigation into questions involving sexual development and the act of creation, a towering achievement that we’re screening on the occasion of the appearance of Barney’s new installation, Secondary, with the artist himself joining us in the theater with writer Maggie Nelson.
“The Cremaster Cycle had its debut in New York and has not been screened in the city since 2015. I’m delighted to bring it to Metrograph this spring in tandem with the premiere of my new film work Secondary – on public view in my Long Island City studio concurrently, from May 12 – June 25, 2023.”
– Matthew Barney
Cremaster 4 and Cremaster 1 will screen as a double bill on Wednesday, May 17 at 7:00 pm. Cremaster 5 will screen on Tuesday, May 23 at 7:00, with subsequent Cremaster screenings to be announced.
Matthew Barney and Maggie Nelson will be in conversation at Metrograph on Sunday, June 4 following a screening of Barney's early works.
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MATTHEW BARNEY
Honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters 2024
We congratulate Matthew Barney on becoming an Honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Matthew Barney has been elected into the Department of Arts and will be inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters during its annual Ceremonial in May 2024.
American Academy of Arts and Letters
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TechnoCool. New Trends in Hungarian Art in the Nineties (1989–2001) (group show)
Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest
27 October 2023 – 11 February 2024
Matthew Barney’s Cremaster 5 is included in Technocool. New Trends in Hungarian Art in the Nineties (1989–2001). The exhibition explores the ways in which the revolutionising spirit of electronic music, DJ culture, and the new visuality of parties served as key inspiration for a generation of artists who started their career in the 1990s. Alongside Hungarian artists, Technocool also presents work by foreign artists who exerted a major influence in Hungary in this period. The displayed works showcase the development of different media – paintings, readymades, photographs, prints, videos and, to a lesser extent, computer-based art – as a new opportunity for self-expression during the nineties.
Hungarian National Gallery