MATTHEW BARNEY
REPRESSIA (decline) (solo show)
LACMA, Los Angeles
23 July 2023 – 7 January 2024
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On view at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) from 23 July, Matthew Barney’s REPRESSIA (decline) is a seminal installation from his breakout solo exhibition Facility of DECLINE at Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, in 1991. The room-sized sculptural installation features two videos in which Barney performs strenuous acts of athletics with unorthodox outcomes: Radial Drill, 1991, and Blind Perineum, 1991. The central space features sculptural components that draw from the exercise equipment and materials used in wrestling, some of which are fashioned out of transmutable elements such as cast petroleum wax and petroleum jelly. Recently acquired by LACMA, REPRESSIA (decline) established Barney’s visual language and anticipates the corporeal drive of his Cremaster cycle of five films, all of which feature performance across different sites and timelines.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)
MATTHEW BARNEY
SECONDARY (solo show)
Fondation Cartier, Paris
8 June – 8 September 2024
The Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain presents an exhibition by Matthew Barney, showing his latest video installation: SECONDARY. With this exhibition, the Fondation Cartier celebrates its collaboration with the American artist which began thirty years ago with the co-production of Barney’s first film, Cremaster 4, 1994, in what would become the artist’s iconic body of work, The CREMASTER Cycle.
The SECONDARY exhibition will take place throughout all of the Fondation Cartier’s galleries, and will show for the first time a new sculpture created for the occasion. In addition, the exhibition will include an installation of the earliest DRAWING RESTRAINT video works, providing further context for the new work.The exhibition at the Fondation Cartier is part of a sequence of unique SECONDARY shows scheduled for 2024 at the artist’s representing galleries.
Fondation Cartier
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