Matthew Barney & Jonathan Bepler, The Man in Black / Drone Harness , 2000 | Sign
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Matthew Barney/Jonathan Bepler
The Man in Black / Drone Harness, 2000 12-inch vinyl record in original card slipcase 31.5 x 31.5 cm. (12.4 x 12.4 in.) Signed by Barney and Bepler This is edition #35 of 500
This provocative multiple by Matthew Barney and Jonathan Bepler is a fund-raising edition for Printed Matter. The 1970’s-style twelve-inch vinyl picture-disc in a gatefold album cover features images from Barney’s Cremaster 2. The record has two tracks, both audio remixes by Bepler from the soundtrack he composed for the movie. Side A is “The Man in Black” featuring Dave Lombardo (the drummer from the heavy metal band Slayer) and 200,000 honeybees. Side B is a dark and moody track entitled “Drone Harness.” The edition is an amazing amalgam of sonic and visual vitality: a major contribution to Barney’s ever-growing oeuvre. Each record is signed and numbered by both artists.
Known for large-scale multimedia projects—often made in series over several years—Matthew Barney is among the most ambitious artists of the past two decades. His work is invested with layers of art-historical references, archetypal imagery, and historical re-enactment. His best-known work, The Cremaster Cycle (1994-2002), is an epic story told through five feature-length films. One of the suite’s recurrent themes uses the biological process of sexual maturation as a metaphor for artistic creation and development. Much of the action is structured in a way that is or alludes to choreography. “My interest in dance has to do with the basic drama of an object in space, interaction with gravity, and the potential for the object to fall over or to fail,” he has said. The work was executed in collaboration with dozens of other artists, including Richard Serra and Norman Mailer. He was awarded the Hugo Boss Prize in 1996 and the Europa 2000 Prize at the 1993 Venice Biennale.
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