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Matthew Barney: Prayer Sheet with the Wound and the Nail

Door Laurenz Foundation

Categorie
Algemeen Kunst
Boeknummer
#337062-WC2
Titel
Matthew Barney: Prayer Sheet with the Wound and the Nail
Auteur
Laurenz Foundation (editor)
Boektype
Paperback
Uitgeverij
Basel : Schwabe Verlag
Jaar van uitgave
2010
ISBN10
3796527078
ISBN13
9783796527074
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Paperback, illustrated with numerous (full page) colour and b/w photographs and illustrations, 4to.
Samenvatting
Form can only take shape when it struggles against resistance. Matthew Barney Begun in 1988 and regularly expanded since, Drawing Restraint, a complex of works by American artist Matthew Barney (born 1967) takes this notion as its starting point. Battling against self-imposed physical and psychological impairments, Barney performs artistic actions from which drawings, sculptures, vitrines, photographs and films emerge, known as secondary forms. The exhibition at Schaulager was based on the archive of this cycle of performances, sixteen to date, acquired by the Laurenz Foundation, the Foundation that operates Schaulager, together with the Museum of Modern Art, New York. They were accompanied by two new Drawing Restraint actions. The exhibitions curator, Neville Wakefield from New York, juxt... (Lees verder)aposed these works, alongside four large-scale sculptures by Barney, with a selection of northern renaissance paintings and works on paper containing Christian iconography. In the book accompanying the exhibition, Drawing Restraint is documented extensively in numerous illustrations and supporting written contributions. A section of photographs shot in the exhibition presents a view of the works in situ at Schaulager. Essays by Neville Wakefield (on the exhibition) and Bodo Brinkmann (addressing cross-references to the art of the Northern Renaissance), along with a conversation between the artist and the British psychiatrist and author Adam Phillips add weight to the documentation. The catalogue also contains an illustrated index of all works exhibited and a bibliography for further reading.
Pagina's
172
Conditie
Goed
Prijs
€ 25,00

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