Matthew barney sfmoma11/25/2023 Recent and pertinent publications include River of Fundament, featuring texts by Hilton Als, Homi K. These drawings explore the sites and themes of River of Fundament, linking them to the narratives that arise from the casting process. Regen Projects will also exhibit a suite of engravings on bronze with gold plating. Six of the water casting sculptures will be on view at Regen Projects, while the remaining eight will be on view at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA) in the exhibition “Matthew Barney: RIVER OF FUNDAMENT,” the artist’s first solo museum presentation in Los Angeles (Septem– January 18, 2016). As the bronze comes into contact with moisture, the metal violently displaces the water and finds its way into the crevices between the pieces of clay, eventually hardening and resulting in unpredictable and abstract forms. This fourteen-part series draws on a narrative central to River of Fundament: the Egyptian myth of Osiris, whose body was cut into fourteen pieces.īarney made the WATER CASTINGS using a unique process he developed over the past year, in which molten bronze is poured into a pit of bentonite clay silt. They continue Barney's recent shift away from his signature materials of thermal plastic and petroleum toward metals used both in early forms of sculpture-making and in automobile manufacture. The WATER CASTINGS are a group of cast bronze sculptures that evoke the mythological and material narratives of River of Fundament (2014), Barney’s six hour operatic film. Barney had his first solo gallery show at Regen Projects in 1991 and this marks the artist’s fifth one-person exhibition at the gallery. Regen Projects is pleased to present WATER CASTINGS: Fourteen Pieces, an exhibition of new work by New York-based artist Matthew Barney. Gallery hours: Tuesday – Saturday, 10:00 am – 6:00 pm Opening reception: Friday, September 11, 6:00 – 8:00 pm
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