That’s how the Cremaster series came about.” His art has provoked strong critical reaction, both positive and negative. I made a conscious decision to take something on that I knew would slow everything down. I was 24 and I didn't really understand what was going on. “It felt like things were moving faster than I could keep up with. Seen by some as a video version of Mapplethorpe (1946-1989) (often appearing naked or, as in one video, pushing a football players blocking sled around a gallery in a backless black evening gown and arm-length gloves), with his surreal films and installations, Barney had captured the art world Zeitgeist of the early 90’s. In his introductory essay, Deitch explained that the “extraordinary self-transformation of Ivana Trump (is) an example of a shuffling of reality and fantasy into a reassembled fictional personality that quickly becomes fact”. That same year the group show Post-human helped secure his success curated by Jeffrey Deitch, the exhibition explored how the internet, artificial intelligence and plastic surgery were changing what it meant to be human. When he left Yale in 1989 he was an almost instant success, a phenomenon the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art gave him a solo shown when he was 24, and in 1993 he was included in the Whitney Biennial and Documenta. After two semesters, he switched majors to art. In 1985 Barney was recruited by Yale University to play football and enrolled with the intention of studying pre-med to become a plastic surgeon to pay his way, he modelled, featuring in advertisements for J Crew and Ralph Lauren. Infamously hailed as “the most important artist of his generation” by the New York Times, he is also routinely trashed as a charlatan - or perhaps worse - an avant-garde film maker. 1930) made his debut in the1960s has a young American artist received so much attention so fast. 1967) was catapulted into art-world fame and cult status. I want there to be a fraction of the art that even I don't understand.” - Matthew Barneyįrom the moment of his first solo show at Barbara Gladstone’s Greene Street gallery in 1991, Matthew Barney (b. You come to it with preconceptions, or you get tired of it. If a work is shown too many times, something gets stolen from it. Matthew Barney “'Art needs to be defended.
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