Matthew Barney
Subtitle: Bildungsroman : 26.02.2016-15.05.2016, Astrup Fearnley Museet
By: kuratert av Gunnar B. Kvaran & Therese Möllenhoff ; redaktør: Gunnar B. Kvaran ; bilderedaktør, korrektur: Therese Möllenhoff
Contributors: Nitsche-Krupp, Andrea, author; Taft, Catherine, author; Barney, Matthew; Astrup Fearnley museet for moderne kunst
Publisher: Astrup Fearnley Museet
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Oslo
Language: nor
Number of pages: 102
ISBN-13: 9788291430911
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Exhibitions; Video art; American Sculpture; Human figure in art; Performance; Plastik
Other titles: Bildungsroman :
Description: Matthew Barney is arguably the artist of the 1990s who most profoundly changed the language of sculpture. He achieved this through the introduction of new materials, from petroleum jelly to gym equipment, the conflation of media and narrative structures, and his enigmatic biological fictions that are at once hilarious and monstrous. For Barney, sculpture is an emanation of places, performances, films, photos, drawings and ephemera, in which he is typically the story's protagonist. The title of the exhibition, Bildungsroman, makes use of the literary term for a coming-of-age novel, thus reflecting how the constellation of works can be read as a journey in the shaping of Barney's artistic practice. Exhibition: Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo, Norway (26.02.- 15.05.2016).
Notes: Catalog of an exhibition at Astrup Fearnley Museet, 26 February through 15 May 2016.

With texts by Gunnar B. Kvaran, Andrea Nitsche-Krupp, Catherine Taft and Therese Möllenhoff.