I'm less interested in skin than in fascia -- connective tissue.
I don't think my work is so strange. It's just a matter of having the discipline to go the whole way with an idea, to stretch it as far as it can go. - Matthew Barney
I don't think my work is so strange. It's just a matter of having the discipline to go the whole way with an idea, to stretch it as far as it can go.
- Matthew Barney
A lot of my work has to do with not allowing my characters to have an ego in a way that the stomach doesn't have an ego when it's wanting to throw up… - Matthew Barney
A lot of my work has to do with not allowing my characters to have an ego in a way that the stomach doesn't have an ego when it's wanting to throw up…
A lot of these angles are really about trying to mimic broadcast sports angles in order to anchor the scene, to sort of normalize it before it become… - Matthew Barney
A lot of these angles are really about trying to mimic broadcast sports angles in order to anchor the scene, to sort of normalize it before it become…
An interesting thing happened in 1989, right as I was graduating: the stock market crashed and really changed the landscape of the art world in New Y… - Matthew Barney
An interesting thing happened in 1989, right as I was graduating: the stock market crashed and really changed the landscape of the art world in New Y…
Jackass: The Movie is great. I think it's in the tradition of physical comedy, which I'm really interested in. Its relationship to gravity, and how g… - Matthew Barney
Jackass: The Movie is great. I think it's in the tradition of physical comedy, which I'm really interested in. Its relationship to gravity, and how g…
[I have a] way of making narrative sculpture, where first you make a text and out of that text you make objects. [...] I start with a story and then … - Matthew Barney
[I have a] way of making narrative sculpture, where first you make a text and out of that text you make objects. [...] I start with a story and then …
I'm less interested in skin than in fascia -- connective tissue. - Matthew Barney
Somebody like Mailer brings to that role everything that he stands for. The types of characters that I gravitate towards, the types of icons, tend to… - Matthew Barney
Somebody like Mailer brings to that role everything that he stands for. The types of characters that I gravitate towards, the types of icons, tend to…
I have a need to make these sorts of connections literal sometimes, and a vehicle often helps to do that. I have a relationship to car culture. It is… - Matthew Barney
I have a need to make these sorts of connections literal sometimes, and a vehicle often helps to do that. I have a relationship to car culture. It is…
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