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Media Preview Reminder: Matthew Barney
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Please join us for a media preview of
SUBLIMING VESSEL
THE DRAWINGS OF MATTHEW BARNEY
Thursday, May 9, 2013
10:00–11:30 a.m.
RSVP: media@themorgan.org; (212) 590-0393
Remarks by Morgan director William M. Griswold
followed by
Short curatorial presentation
The Morgan Library & Museum
225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, NYC
Tea & coffee will be served
SUBLIMING VESSEL
May 10—September 2, 2013
Matthew Barney (b. 1967) is best known for his sculptures and films, but drawing also plays a critical role in his work. Subliming Vessel: The Drawings of Matthew Barney is the first exhibition devoted entirely to this aspect of his art. The show ranges from Barney’s earliest drawings to his most recent project, tracing his investigation of the discipline as an activity both independent from and linked to his sculptural and performative practice.
In addition to Barney’s drawings, the exhibition will also include a number of his storyboards—composed of sketches, photographs, clippings, and books—which he assembles to map the narrative structure and imagery of his projects. Barney has selected books and manuscripts from the Morgan’s collections to display as part of his storyboards. These items—which include a more than two-thousand-year-old Egyptian Book of the Dead, a medieval zodiac, and poet Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass—demonstrate the breadth of Barney’s interests and underscore the importance of literature and mythology in the elaboration of his stories.
In conjunction with the exhibition, the artist will create a new DRAWING RESTRAINT, the twentieth in this ongoing series that examines the relationship between self-imposed restraint and artistic creation. The drawings produced during the DRAWING RESTRAINT 20 performance will be on view in the Morgan’s Clare Eddy Thaw Gallery as part of the exhibition.
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Images:
Matthew Barney
KHU: Djed, 2011
Brush and ink, gold leaf, iron, and lapis lazuli on black paper in polyethylene frame
12 3/4 x 10 3/4 x 1 1/4 inches (32.4 x 27.3 x 3.2 cm)
Private collection
Copyright Matthew Barney
Courtesy Gladstone Gallery, New York and Brussels
Matthew Barney
RIVER ROUGE: Crown Victoria, 2011
Ink on paper in painted steel frame
11 3/8 x 14 3/8 x 1 1/2 inches (28.9 x 36.5 x 3.8 cm)
Julia Reyes Taubman and Robert Taubman
Copyright Matthew Barney
Courtesy Gladstone Gallery, New York and Brussels
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