Matthew Barney, “Redoubt”, 2018. Production still. © Matthew Barney, courtesy Gladstone Gallery, New York and Brussels, and Sadie Coles HQ, London. Photo: Hugo Glendinning.
Matthew Barney: Redoubt – Yale University Art Gallery Yale University Art Gallery presents ‘Matthew Barney: Redoubt’, an exhibition of latest work by renowned contemporary artist Matthew Barney. March 1–June 16, 2019.]]>
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The Yale University Art Gallery presents ‘Matthew Barney: Redoubt’, an exhibition of the renowned contemporary artist’s latest body of work (2016–19). The exhibition includes an eponymous two-hour film that traces the story of a wolf hunt in Idaho’s Sawtooth Mountain range, intertwining the theme of the hunt with those of mythology and artistic creation. Also featured are four monumental sculptures, more than forty engravings and electroplated copper plates, and an artist-conceived catalogue. This is the artist’s first major exhibition at his alma mater (Barney studied art at Yale, receiving his B.A. in 1989).
”Matthew Barney: Redoubt” is Barney’s first solo museum exhibition in the U.S. since the presentation of “River of Fundament” at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, in 2015–16. The new artworks in “Redoubt” continue the artist’s notable shift in materials over the past decade, from the plastic and petroleum jelly of his early works to the cast metals that figured prominently in “River of Fundament”. With “Redoubt”, Barney has combined traditional casting methods and new digital technologies with unprecedented techniques to create artworks of formal and material complexity as well as narrative density. The four monumental sculptures in the exhibition, for instance, derive from trees harvested from a burned forest in the Sawtooth Mountains. Molten copper and brass were poured through the trees, creating a unique cast of the core as the metal flowed inside. Each sculpture is a literal vestige of Idaho, with the remains of the tree being subsumed into the artwork.
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