Published by Matthew Barney Studio, Galerie Max Hetzler, Gladstone Gallery, Sadie Coles HQ, and Regen Projects, 2024 Edition of 6000
Published to document Matthew Barney’s 2023 film of the same name, SECONDARY Magazine is a large-format, fully-illustrated zine. The glossy-print magazine features full-bleed production stills, profiles of the film’s cast members, and a reprint of Bruce Weber’s New York Times obituary for Al Davis, the owner of the Oakland Raiders football team. SECONDARY Magazine was edited by Isabella Achenbach, designed by Pacific and published by Matthew Barney Studio, Gladstone Gallery, Sadie Coles HQ, Regen Projects, and Galerie Max Hetzler.
Matthew Barney Studio, Gladstone Gallery, Sadie Coles HQ, Regen Projects, and Galerie Max Hetzler, 2024 Publication date: 2024 Language: English Binding: Softcover, 64 pages Edition of 6000 Dimensions: 28 x 33 cm x 0.5 cm
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Matthew Barney (b. 1967) is known for his innovative and broad-ranging practice encompassing film, performance, sculpture, photography and drawing. Celebrated for his feature-length cinematic work, including the seminal Cremaster Cycle (1994–2002), River of Fundament (2014) and Redoubt (2019), the artist creates fantastical universes which challenge the limits and politics of gender, sexuality and codified beliefs. Describing himself primarily as a sculptor, Barney works with materials stretching from petroleum jelly to bronze, creating objects and installations that are intrinsically linked to his cinematic world. Barney’s drawings mark both the beginning and end of his filmic projects, existing as preparatory sketches and as reflective recollections of internal states. The closely interrelated elements of his oeuvre form the parts of a mythological Gesamtkunstwerk, addressing questions of life and death, the natural world and industrial transformation, the cosmic and terrestrial. ‘Over the last twenty-seven years Matthew Barney has produced some of the most accomplished, demanding, and distinctive bodies of work in contemporary art. A leading artist of his generation, he is a visionary figure whose complex and radical forms have generated an entirely new artistic vocabulary that is as unique as it is protean. At the root of his provocative art is an examination of physical and biological systems as a portal to the psychic, symbolic, mythological, occult, and archetypal dimensions of human experience and consciousness.’ O. Enwezor, ‘Portals and Processions: Matthew Barney’s River of Fundament’, in Matthew Barney: River of Fundament, exh. cat., Haus der Kunst, Munich; New York: Skira Rizzoli, 2014, p. 232
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SECONDARY: object impact secondary.matthewbarney.net
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2024
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