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Matthew Barney — Drawing Restraint 9: The Terrestrials
Matthew Barney

Drawing Restraint 9: The Terrestrials

Two chromogenic prints capture Matthew Barney's enigmatic visual world, depicting elaborately costumed figures engaged in ritualistic ceremony aboard a Japanese whaling vessel. The images blend themes of transformation, mythology, and bodily constraint through Barney's signature aesthetic of dense symbolic layering. The works are housed in self-lubricating plastic frames, a material integral to Barney's practice that references industrial lubrication and the cyclical tension between resistance and release.

Medium
2 chromogenic prints, in self-lubricating plastic frames

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Under the Influence

March 7, 2014

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Matthew Barney, Drawing Restraint 9: The Terrestrials

Two chromogenic prints capture Matthew Barney's enigmatic visual world, depicting elaborately costumed figures engaged in ritualistic ceremony aboard a Japanese whaling vessel. The images blend themes of transformation, mythology, and bodily constraint through Barney's signature aesthetic of dense symbolic layering. The works are housed in self-lubricating plastic frames, a material integral to Barney's practice that references industrial lubrication and the cyclical tension between resistance and release.

Medium
2 chromogenic prints, in self-lubricating plastic frames
Seen at
Phillips, New York, London, Hong Kong

Related themes

Body, Surreal, Bold, Performance Art, American, Mixed Media, Conceptual Art, Chromogenic Print, Figurative, Contemporary

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