Cremaster cycle 2 & Cremaster cycle 5 (Matthew Barney)

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14 December 2000
— 20 December 2000

Screening's

Cremaster 2
hall 1, Daily
except Wednesday at 20:30
Sunday additional screening at 15:30

Cremaster 5
Daily at 22:15 p.m.
Additional screening Sunday at 18:00

Lecture Jan Hoet
Sunday 17th of December at 17:00

Filmtheater t' Hoogt
Hoogt 4, Utrecht
mon/tue 10 guilder, Other days 13 guilder,
two Cremasters 20 guilders, lecture 10 guilder, CJP pass valid.

Call to reserve: 030-2328388

Matthew Barney is one of the most notorious and influential contemporary artists of the past decade. His ongoing Cremaster Cycle is shrouded in mystique and exclusivity. In the Netherlands, Barney is best known for his exhibition at Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen and for his performance March of the Anal Sadistic Warrior. For the first time in the Netherlands, Barney’s films will be shown together in a dedicated week-long screening at a movie theatre.

Barney’s work forms a dazzling constellation of symbolic imagery that invites — and resists — interpretation. His films are spectacles of decadence and formal perfection, in which conventional narrative structures dissolve. Alongside icons of American pop culture that assume prominent cinematic roles, the films frequently reference phenomena from medical and biological fields, culminating in explorations of the body, its sexuality, and its potential absence or transformation.

Cremaster 2 & Cremaster 5

Cremaster 2: is an aesthetic, hallucinatory spectacle centered on the murderer Gary Gilmore, a young man abused by his father who committed a double homicide in 1976. The role of the grandfather, who imagines himself to be Harry Houdini, is portrayed by writer Norman Mailer, whose novel The Executioner’s Song serves as an important source of inspiration for the film. Dave Lombardo, drummer of the heavy metal band Slayer, makes a striking surprise appearance.

Cremaster 5: is structured as an opera. Its lush, meticulously composed images create a form of symbolic cinema that evokes an intense, almost tactile sensuality. Ursula Andress — the iconic “Bond girl” from Dr. No — plays the Queen of Chain, a tragic and enigmatic figure within the film’s mythic universe.

Matthew Barney Jan Hoet

Matthew Barney

― Artist

Matthew Barney is an American contemporary artist and film director who works in the fields of sculpture, film, photography and drawing. His works explore connections among geography, biology, geology and mythology as well as notable themes of sex, intercourse, the human body, and conflict. His early pieces were sculptural installations combined with performance and video. Between 1994 and 2002, he created The Cremaster Cycle, a series of five films described by Jonathan Jones in The Guardian as "one of the most imaginative and brilliant achievements in the history of avant-garde cinema." He is also known for his projects Drawing Restraint 9 (2005), River of Fundament (2014) and Redoubt (2018).

Jan Hoet

― Curator

Jan Hoet was the Belgian founder of S.M.A.K. (Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst or Municipal Museum for Contemporary Art) in Ghent, Belgium and director of Museum MARTa in Herford, Germany. His international reputation was first established by "Chambres d'Amis," an innovative exhibition he organized in Ghent in 1986. In that show, about 50 American and European artists were invited to create works for 50 private homes in Ghent, which were then opened to the public for several weeks. Subsequently, he managed several important exhibitions all over the world, including Documenta IX in Kassel in 1992, which he curated.

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