Matthew Barney, Crown Zink libretti River of Fundament, a Gesamtkunstwerk
Matthew Barney (born San Francisco 1967) is known internationally for such works as his visionary five-component films forming the CREMASTER cycle (1994–2002) and his DRAWING RESTRAINT series (1987–ongoing), currently consisting of 21 filmed actions, the most recent of which took place at Haus der Kunst in early 2014. Barney has received numerous awards including the Aperto prize at the 1993 Venice Biennale; the Hugo Boss Award in 1996; the 2007 Kaiser Ring Award in Goslar, Germany and the San Francisco International Film Festival’s Persistence of Vision Award in 2011. He lives and works in New York. Matthew Barney has been developing the project in collaboration with the Berlin-based American composer Jonathan Bepler since 2007. The work is inspired by the American author Norman Mailer and his novel Ancient Evenings, set in Ancient Egypt from 1290–110 , which when it was published in 1983 was criticized for its excessive nature. The film presentation and the exhibition at Haus der Kunst constitute the multi-part River of Fundament project, a new Barney Gesamtkunstwerk since his celebrated Cremaster retrospective more than a decade ago. Set across the American landscape, MATTHEW BARNEY's River of Fundament is an epic story of regeneration and rebirth, inspired by NORMAN MAILER’s 1983 novel Ancient Evenings. These images were taken at the Haus Der Kunst in Munich where Barney was showing works that derivates from his 5 hours plus film-opera. River of Fundament was on view in 2014 at Haus der Kunst, Munich.
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