Matthew Barney: River of Fundament - Rilegato

Enwezor, Okwui

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0847842584 ISBN 13: 9780847842582

Casa editrice: Skira Rizzoli, 2014

Riassunto

On the occasion of a major exhibition, performance, and film premiere, this book considers Matthew Barney's epic seven-year project, an odyssey of death and its mythologies. This long-awaited volume documents the full breadth of this ambitious new project, the first major series by the artist since the legendary Cremaster cycle. River of Fundament is directly inspired by Norman Mailer's Egyptian novel Ancient Evenings, his infamous classic that chronicled the passage of a narrator through the stations of death and reincarnation. In a sequence of unique live performances, a series of massive sculptures, and, finally, a marathon-length opera in cinematic form, made with the artist's longtime collaborator, the composer Jonathan Bepler, Barney has elaborated a richly perverse and complex universe in which mythology, iconography, narrative, sex, and death are inextricably entwined.

Organized according to the narrative structure of the film, the book features sculptures (made from elemental materials such as iron, sulfur, bronze, lead, salt, and copper), drawings, film and live performance stills, storyboards, and original scores by Bepler. A comprehensive essay on the exhibition and film project by Okwui Enwezor provides an overview of the entire project. The book also includes contributions by literary theorist Homi K. Bhabha and critic Hilton Als, as well as facsimiles of the playbills produced for the related live performances.

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Informazioni sull'autore

Okwui Enwezor is the director of Haus der Kunst, Munich. Homi K. Bhabha is the director of the Humanities Center at Harvard University. Hilton Als is a staff writer and theater critic for The New Yorker.

Dalla quarta di copertina

Conceived and articulated as a site-specific opera, River of Fundament takes its inspiration from Norman Mailer's novel Ancient Evenings, which chronicles the protagonist's soul's journey through death and reincarnation, according to Egyptian mythology. This multipart body of work continues the artist's practice of crafting rich, complex worlds in which mythology (historical and personal), literary narrative, and investigations of the body merge and mutate. Accompanying the major exhibition at the Haus der

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Skira Rizzoli
• Data di pubblicazione: 2014
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0847842584
• ISBN 13: 9780847842582
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 422
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
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