MATTHEW BARNEY – After Ruby Ridge at Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin, 2021

Описание: MATTHEW BARNEY
After Ruby Ridge
Bleibtreustraße 45, 10623 Berlin
14 September – 23 December 2021

Galerie Max Hetzler is pleased to announce "After Ruby Ridge", a solo exhibition of recent works by Matthew Barney at Bleibtreustraße 45, Berlin. This is the artist’s first solo presentation with the gallery and his first exhibition in Berlin since "Barney/Beuys" at the Deutsche Guggenheim in 2007.

Featuring nineteen new drawings, two sculptures and one bronze engraving the exhibition is part of a series of shows related to Barney’s feature-length film "Redoubt", 2018. All of the works draw from the visual language of the film which plays in the remote Sawtooth mountains in Idaho and addresses such wide-ranging themes as cosmology, American frontier myths, and the role of artistic creation. The exhibition is titled after Ruby Ridge, the location of a deadly stand-off between a separatist family and federal agents in the mountains of Northern Idaho in the 1990’s. The title further complicates Barney’s statement that Redoubt is a portrait of a place, in all its complexity, beauty and ugliness.

Barney works in distinct series which are developed over several years, creating work that fuses sculptural installations with performance, video, sculpture, printmaking, and drawing. Drawing plays a primary role within his oeuvre; it functions both as preparation, in the form of sketches in the planning stage of a film or exhibition project, and also as a pillar of Barney’s artistic expression, from the days of his early career until today.

0:00-0:45 installation view
0:46-1:36 "Theodolite", 2021, "Incendiary", 2021, "Inversion", 2021
1:37-4:22 "Bore", 2021
4:23-4:42 "Turquoise Diana", 2021, "Cadastre", 2021
4:43-6:03 "Violet Diana", 2021, "Blue Nocturne", 2021, "American Redoubt", 2021, "After Ruby Ridge", 2021
6:04-7:20 "Bole", 2021
7:21-7:53 "Metamorphoses: Reticle", 2021, "Metamorphoses: Kryptek", 2021
7:54-8:47 "Metamorphoses: Diana", 2021, "Metamorphoses: Actaeon", 2021, "Metamorphoses: Wildlife", 2021, "Metamorphoses: Bathers", 2021

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