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Matthew Barney. Prayer Sheet With The Wound and the Nail - Schaulager, Basel
The exhibition shows works from the series "Drawing Restraint," the Matthew Barney (born in 1967 in San Francisco) continues since 1988. The documented performances of this series are here various Christian paintings of the 16th and 17 Century compared.
Under the title "Drawing Restraint" (something like: "is prevented from drawing") sums up Matthew Barney all those performances in which he under difficult conditions to make drawings attempted. On the basis of specially developed equipment with ramps, slopes, obstacles or elastic straps Barney sets himself on restrictions that impede his artistic work deliberately. He believes "the form can only take form when she fights against a resistance."
The presentation includes numerous documents these singular actions - including objects, drawings, photographs, display cases but also film and video. In addition to older performances, as well as two new works are presented that have been created in May 2010 in the shop warehouse.
Barneys performances in the exhibition are woodcuts and paintings by Martin Schongauer, Albrecht Dürer, Urs Graf, Hans Baldung
and other artists of the 16th and early 17 Century compared. By such a confrontation should latent meanings in Barney's work come to light: "They are aspects such as effort, overcoming resistance,
Rise and Fall, which is also in the imagery, the . Christian iconography developed its own tradition, "the curator
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