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Matthew Barney
Redoubt
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Book Presentation:
Matthew Barney: Redoubt is a comprehensive catalogue of the artist’s newest project, which centers on a two-hour film that creates a complex portrait of the American landscape by layering classical, cosmological, and American myths about humanity’s place in the natural world. In the film, the goddess Diana and her two attendants traverse the rugged terrain of Idaho’s Sawtooth Mountains in pursuit of the elusive wolf, while an Engraver (played by Barney, b. 1967) furtively documents their actions in copper engravings and provokes a series of confrontations. The publication comprises hundreds of stills that track the film’s narrative, as well as essays—some lyrical, others more objective—that approach Redoubt through disciplines such as ecology, art history, and dance. Also featured are the artworks made by Barney in conjunction with the film: electroplated copper engravings based on those his character makes and sculptures created by pouring molten metal through hollowed, burned trees harvested from the Sawtooth region. Taking a cue from Redoubt’s mountainous setting, the overall design of the book evokes a field guide.
Distributed for the Yale University Art Gallery
Exhibition Schedule:
Yale University Art Gallery
(03/01/19–07/16/19)
UCCA, Beijing
(09/28/19–12/15/19)
Hayward Gallery, London
(03/04/20–05/10/20)
About the Author:
Pamela Franks is director of the Williams College Museum of Art. Elisabeth Hodermarsky is the Sutphin Family Senior Associate Curator of Prints and Drawings, Yale University Art Gallery. André Lepecki is Professor and Chair of the Department of Performance Studies, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University. Arthur Middleton is Assistant Professor of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, University of California, Berkeley. Molly Nesbit is Professor of Art, Vassar College. Jennifer Raab is Assistant Professor in the History of Art, Yale University. John Rember is an author based in the Sawtooth Valley of Idaho.
Press Reviews:
"Fascinating"—Adrian Searle, Guardian
"[An] innovatively designed catalogue . . . Barney taps into something our national discourse could certainly use more of—namely, mysticism, the capacity to wonder at what we don’t yet know."—Griffin Oleynick, Commonweal
See the publisher website: Yale University Art Gallery
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