Matthew Barney: River of Fundament, Haus der Kunst (House of Art), March 16 - August 17
San Francisco-born Matthew Barney (1967) is a media darling and one of the best-known artists of his generation. The former medical student, athlete, actor and model lived together with Icelandic singer Björk for more than a decade and is the father of their daughter Isidora (b. 2002). A veritable multimedia artist, Barney employs painting, sculpture and film in his works. His previous monumental project, Cremaster Cycle, was made over an eight-year period (1994-2002) and was presented not only in some of the world's best-known exhibition halls, but also at movie festivals.
Now, after a lengthy hiatus, Barney is returning to the art scene with a new multimedia mega project - Matthew Barney: River of Fundament, which he has created in cooperation with Berlin-based American composer Jonathan Bepler. The main inspiration for the project comes from Ancient Evenings, a novel by American author Norman Mailer depicting life in Ancient Egypt from 1290 to 110 BC.
River of Fundament is Barney's largest and most ambitious project to date, consisting of a five-hour-long film that will premiere on March 16 at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, as well as sculptures, drawings, photographs, vitrines and other media. The artist has described this project as the culmination of seven years of meditation about death, rebirth, transformation and transcendence. Barney created 15 large-scale sculptures for the installation, replacing the plastic and petroleum jelly that he previously used with metal, sulphur and salt. Like all of Barney's projects, this one is also replete with historical, contemporary and deeply personal mythology.
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