Exhibition
Matthew Barney. Bildungsroman
26 Feb 2016 – 15 May 2016
Travel Information
- Routes 21 and 54 stop on Bryggetorget. Route 33 stops on Filipstadveien. Routes 32, 33, 54, 122, 129 and 132 stop on Vika Atrium.
- The nearest tram station is Aker Brygge (Lines 12 and 16, 500 metres approx). The nearest Metro station is Nationaltheateret (all lines, 1,100 metres approx).
- The nearest mainline train station is Nationaltheateret (all lines, 1,000 metres approx).
Event map
Matthew Barney is arguably the artist of the 1990s who most profoundly changed the language of sculpture.
About
He achieved this through the introduction of new materials, from petroleum jelly to gym equipment, the conflation of media and narrative structures, and his enigmatic biological fictions that are at once hilarious and monstrous. For Barney, sculpture is an emanation of places, performances, films, photos, drawings and ephemera, in which he is typically the story’s protagonist. In this exhibition, he has created a new layout and a narrative that goes from TRANSEXUALIS (decline) (1991) through The Cremaster Cycle (1994–2002) to the River of Fundament (2014).
