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Artist's Profile
Matthew Barney
Matthew Barney was born in San Francisco
in 1967. In 1991, he graduated from Yale University. Since
then, he has created work that fuses sculptural installations
with performance and video. His singular vision foregrounds
the physical rigors of sport and its erotic undercurrents
to explore the limits of the body and sexuality. He is
best known as the creator of the CREMASTER films, a series
of five visually extravagant works created out of sequence.
The films are a grand mixture of history, autobiography,
and mythology, an intensely private universe in which
symbols and images are densely layered and interconnected.
The resulting cosmology is both beautiful and complex.
Matthew Barney won the prestigious Europa 2000 prize at
the 45th Venice Biennale in 1993. He was also the first
recipient of the Guggenheim Museumﾕs Hugo Boss Award.
Matthew Barney lives and works in New York City. Public
collection: MOMA, New York / Solomon R Guggenheim Museum,
New York / Whitney Museum of American Art , New York /
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas / MCA Chicago / Walker Art
Center, Minneapolis / Tate Gallery, London / Astrup Fearnley
Museet, Oslo
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Bjork
Born in Raykjavik, Iceland, 1965. Lives
in New York. She had learned piano for nine years since
she was 5 years old. In 1977, her CD "Bjork"
became her the world's best-known Icelandic musician,
when she was at the young age of 11. She formed her band
"Sugarcubes" in 1986. Their debut album "Life
is Too Good" acquired worldwide popularity in 1988.
After she disbanded, she has started solo works and released
ﾒdebutﾓ in 1993. She appeared in the film "Dancer
In The Dark", and won the Best Actress award at the
2000 Cannes film festival. By this , she has been known
as an actress in the world. In 1996, Bjork visited Japan
for the first time, lived at Budokan. As "Diva in
Iceland", she has been getting many fans by performing
in Fuji Rock Festival, Athens 2004 Olympic Games. In 2005,
she appeared in Matthew Barney's film "Drawing Restraint
9", and took a charge of sound truck of this film.
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Matthew Barney
"Drawing Restraint 9" (2005) Production Photograph.
2005 Matthew Barney. Photo: Chris Winget. Courtesy Gladstone
Gallery, New York
2005 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, all rights
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