From 8 June to 8 September 2024, the Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain (Paris) presents an exhibition by Matthew Barney, showing his latest video installation: “Secondary".
The exhibition will take place in all the galleries of the Cartier Foundation and will present for the first time a new sculpture created for the occasion. Additionally, the exhibition will include an installation of early video works Drawing Restraint, providing further context for the new work.
Exhibition at the Cartier Foundation: the tour
Filmed at Matthew Barney's sculpture studio in Long Island City, New York, United States, where it was first shown in Spring 2023, “Secondary” is a video installation five-channel video set in the context of an American football field. For sixty minutes, eleven performers – primarily dancers and movement artists with older bodies, including the artist – abstract the action taking place on the field. The plot of “Secondary” revolves around the memory of an accident happened during a football game professional the August 12, 1978, where Oakland Raiders defensive end Jack Tatum hit Oakland Raiders wide receiver Darryl Stingley in the open field. New England Patriots. Stingley was paralyzed. Rebroadcast again and again by the sports media, this tragic event will remain imprinted in the minds of American fans and of young Barney, himself a youth league quarterback at the time.
Who is Matthew Barney
Born in San Francisco, California and raised in Boise, Idaho, Matthew Barney now lives and works in New York. A multifaceted artist, his practice incorporates film, performance, sculpture, photography and drawing. He is famous for his feature films The Cremaster Cycle (1994-2002), River of Fundament (2014) and redoubt (2019), as well as for his video series Drawing Restraint (1987-ongoing). As a sculptor, Barney works with materials ranging from Vaseline, to bronze, to contemporary polymers and now for the first time to terracotta, to create objects and installations intrinsically linked to his cinematic universe.
Personal exhibitions
Matthew Barney has presented large-scale projects in solo exhibitions at the Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain (1995); Guggenheim, New York (2002); Museum of 21st Century Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan (2005); Schaulager, Basel, Switzerland (2010 and 2021); the Morgan Library and Museum, New York (2013); Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany (2014); and Yale University Art Gallery (2019). He received the Premio Aperto at the Venice Biennale (1993); the Hugo Boss Award (1996); the Kaiser Ring Award in Goslar, Germany (2007); and the Golden Gate Persistence of Vision Award at the 54th San Francisco Film Festival (2011).
