Brief introduction of matthew barney

MatthewBarney, American avant-garde artist/director, 1967 was born in San Francisco. He is a new generation of American artists who became popular in the late 1990s and now lives in new york. Matthew barney is a master of fantasy and fiction, which is reflected in his mixed devices, performance art photos and unique video works. Artistic makeup, beautifully dressed models, synthetic substances with uncertain shapes, greasy objects made of vaseline, roaring racing cars and even erotic maniacs with horns on their heads.

Chinese name: matthew barney.

Matthew Barney

Nationality: USA

Place of birth: San Francisco, USA

Date of birth: 1967

Occupation: artist/director

Main achievements: hybrid device, performance art

Representative works: hanging silk series, 95 water ripples and other works.

Personal profile

experience

Matthew barney was born in California 1967. 199 1 graduated from Yale university with a major in medicine. His artistic career began with BarbaraGladstone Gallery in new york, and he soon became a success. Since 1990, he has participated in almost all important international art exhibitions in the world, and won the Guggenheim Museum Contemporary Art Award in the United States in 1996. 1994 to 2002, Barney created five art films "Hanging Silk/Mystery and Death".

win a prize

His latest experimental film "DrawingRestraint9" appeared in Venice Film Festival last year, starring his wife bjork. In fact, in the 1990s, he has already appeared in major exhibitions in the world, such as the 45th Venice Biennale, 1992 Kassel Literature Exhibition, the 10 Sydney Biennale and so on. 1996 won Hugo Award of Guggenheim Art Museum in new york.

evaluate

Matthew barney is one of the most creative artists in the United States in the 1990s. His works combine performance, photography, video, installation and film. His works are generally extremely beautiful and fashionable visual compositions and tones. He is another genius who uses trendy vision after andy warhol and Jeff Koons. But compared with his predecessors, matthew barney's idea has a layer of myth. In many of his works, he has widely used various art media techniques, but the most representative is his short film series "Hanging Silk" which started shooting in 1994. The three most prominent films are suspension spring 4 (1994), suspension spring1(1995/96) and suspension spring 5 (1997). Each episode of this short film series lasts about half an hour. There is no complete story and dialogue, only some bizarre plot fragments, images, sounds and imaginary makeup, props, scenes and characters.

Personal work

A wide range of works

At the end of 2002, the exhibition "Master Series 1-5" in Paris was held at the Museum of Modern Art in Paris. That's a review of matthew barney's works in recent ten years. He started from 1994 and entered the ranks of artists who took the human body as the artistic expression. He didn't finish the creation of these five films until 2002 (I don't know what to call this art now, and there is no accurate translation in China). Five films were only part of the exhibition, which caused quite a stir in Europe at that time. At that time, my feeling was that his works involved many fields, such as film, sculpture, video, painting, photography, dance, behavior, makeup, performance and even medicine, prosthesis, psychopathology and so on. In a word, almost all the means of expression in modern art are involved and well combined and used. You will feel that high technology has a great influence on art, and in addition, you can't finish such a work without strong financial support. Matthew barney has become the darling of modern art in the world.

Hanging wire series

A former medical student has brought such a strange and changeable visual impact to the art world in a few years, which is of great significance. A series of works (including movies, stills and installations) called Cremator are still his representative works. The scenes in the suspension spring series are always symbolic. The scene of "Hanging Wire 1" is in a football field as big as two aircraft carriers; "Hanging Wire 5" takes people to the iron cable bridge in Budapest, the Baroque Opera House and the bathtub of Art Nouveau. Suspension spring 3 and suspension spring 2 are set in the Canadian Arctic Circle and Chrysler Building. The scene of "Hanging Wire 4" borrowed a small European island called IsleofMan, and since the 1960s, cross-country car races have been held every year. As the critic Jean-Mace Linwood said, "The myth and image of the island of man in the works originated from his highly mature ceremony, behavior and symbolic language, which constituted the illusory world in the film. Hanging Silk 4 is not only a story (or picture) about the island and the artists on the island, but also a narrative form discovered by the artists themselves.

"Hanging Silk" is a avant-garde film from the perspective of film, but it is a conceptual art work by means of film from the perspective of contemporary art. In fact, this avant-garde short film is also collected as a work. The filming of this film is sponsored by an art foundation, which represents the highest level of avant-garde art today, but it is difficult to spread. Matthew barney's method to solve the contradiction between avant-garde art creation and circulation is: first, show the movie video for several hours in public theaters, then make the images in the movie video into installations, objects, photos and sketches for exhibition in art galleries and galleries, and publish books including movie pictures.

Make an appreciative comment

Matthew barney also deliberately accumulated and integrated some contradictory and split visual experiences on the screen: machine racing and natural vilen; Weird delusions and weightlessness in reality and so on. The sense of nothingness and depression comes face to face under the visual impact of waves of beautiful, delusional, bizarre and extremely cool advertising pictures, which makes you cry and get hurt for this cool picture.

The cremaster muscle comes from the medical field and is the name of a kind of muscle tissue in male reproductive organs. It is used to instinctively protect human reproduction, split living organisms and maintain their necessary balance space when testicles are stimulated by the outside world. By thinking about the essence and original function of human life, matthew barney metaphorically talked about human potential life, ability, limit and bondage. At the same time, he also alluded to the potential dangers and strange phenomena in the existing institutional society in American society. Matthew barney likes "disorder", and he created his personal fantasy with "disorder". Only by a complete survey of his series of works and careful attention to every sculpture, movie and painting can we understand how disorder appears in our real life through various forms?

Matthew barney described an imaginary pain, which was different from the specific enemies of capitalism in the early days: capitalists, commodities, machines and money. Now, these symbols are difficult to criticize clearly in ethics. Everything will make people suffer, but nothing can find the root of the pain. Moreover, in the contemporary era of globalization, this kind of pain is accompanied by beautiful visual consumption culture and physical sensory comfort.

Matthew barney's works reflect a representative trend of international contemporary art in the late 1990s: fashionable and beautiful colors, fictional visual images and schizophrenic content. It shows that in the era of global capitalism, individuals are deeply influenced by consumer culture, international capitalist system and virtual information society.

Resume of matthew barney

1967 was born in San Francisco, USA.

1989 received a bachelor's degree from Yale university.

Currently living and working in New York.

Solo Exhibitions

1988 "scab action-new york video exhibition", new york, USA.

199 1 year new york and San Francisco, USA.

1994 "Portrait Exhibition of Hanging Silk", Los Angeles, USA

1997 "suspension line 5", Frankfurt, Germany

1998 "messenger wire 5", Barcelona, Spain

1999 "suspension line 2", Minneapolis, USA

Group exhibition

1990 sketch exhibition in new york, USA.

1992 The 9th Kassel Literature Exhibition, Kassel, Germany.

1993 45th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy.

Tokyo, Japan1995 "'95 Water Ripple"

1996 10th Sydney Biennale, Sydney, Australia

1998 "scar-between democracy and redemption in contemporary art", Stockholm, Sweden.

1999 Carnegie international art exhibition in Pittsburgh, USA

2000 New Photography Exhibition in new york, USA.