[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 make sculpture from that story, it's just that the stories become more and more elaborate.
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 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…
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…
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…
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…
[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 …
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…
I'm less interested in skin than in fascia -- connective tissue. - Matthew Barney
I'm less interested in skin than in fascia -- connective tissue.
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…
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