Marina
02-17-2003, 08:29 AM
This exhibit left Paris a couple of months ago and will be opening soon in New York, at the Guggenheim. It's a series of installations (conceived and organized by Barney) centered around his five Cremaster movies.
The Cremaster muscle controls the rising and lowering of the testicles in reponse to fear, cold, etc. (I'd never heard of it before Barney -- just one of the many physiological revelations he has to offer.) As you might guess from this, a lot of his work has to do with gender construction ... but it's much more than that.
It's great seeing the movies in the context of this exhibit, because you get such a sense of entering his universe. The "screening rooms" are bracketed by sculptures and objects featured in or related to the movies. He did an amazing job of setting the tone for each movie, while still making you feel that, as you made your way through the exhibit, from one movie to another, you were navigating a coherent whole.
He apparently expanded the New York version of the exhibit, added a few installations ... I envy anyone in New York who gets to see it!
- Marina
The Cremaster muscle controls the rising and lowering of the testicles in reponse to fear, cold, etc. (I'd never heard of it before Barney -- just one of the many physiological revelations he has to offer.) As you might guess from this, a lot of his work has to do with gender construction ... but it's much more than that.
It's great seeing the movies in the context of this exhibit, because you get such a sense of entering his universe. The "screening rooms" are bracketed by sculptures and objects featured in or related to the movies. He did an amazing job of setting the tone for each movie, while still making you feel that, as you made your way through the exhibit, from one movie to another, you were navigating a coherent whole.
He apparently expanded the New York version of the exhibit, added a few installations ... I envy anyone in New York who gets to see it!
- Marina