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Contemporary Video Art

Contemporary Video Art. Matthew Barney (1967- ). His work encompasses sculpture, photography, drawing and film. Mostly known for his “ Cremaster ” series. In the 90s, moved to New York and worked as a male model for J.Crew catalogues – a career that helped him finance his early

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Contemporary Video Art

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  1. Contemporary Video Art

  2. Matthew Barney (1967- ) His work encompasses sculpture, photography, drawing and film. Mostly known for his “Cremaster” series. In the 90s, moved to New York and worked as a male model for J.Crew catalogues – a career that helped him finance his early work as an artist. Barney is married to Bjork, a very famous singer from Iceland.

  3. Matthew Barney Barney’s epic Cremaster Cycle (1994–2002) consists of five feature-length films that explore processes of creation. Its conceptual departure point is the cremaster muscle, which is part of the male reproduction system. As the cycle evolved over eight years, Barney looked beyond biology as a way to explore the creation of form, employing narrative models from other realms, such as biography, mythology, and geology.

  4. Matthew Barney PBS Art 21 Series

  5. Matthew Barney Drawing Restraint 9 (2005) consisting of: • a feature length 35mm film • large-scale sculptures • photographs, drawings, and books Drawing Restraint 9is an unconventional love story set in Japan. The narrative structure is built upon themes such as the Shinto religion, the tea ceremony, the history of whaling, etc.

  6. Matthew Barney Drawing Restraint 9, 2005 – Movie Trailer The film concerns the theme of self-imposed limitation and continues Matthew Barney’s interest in religious rite, this time focusing on Shinto.

  7. Bill Viola Is one of today’s leading video artists Designs environments that envelop the viewer in image and sound Employs state-of the-art technologies Main focus - universal human experiences: • birth, death, rebirth • the unfolding of consciousness His art has roots in both Eastern and Western art and philosophy

  8. Bill Viola Got his first camera in the 60s and made his first art video in 1970. In this interview Viola talks about one of his latest projects Ocean Without a Shore, installed in a San Gallo church in Venice.

  9. Referencing Old Masters “I am interested in what the old masters didn’t paint, those steps in between.” - Bill Viola Christ Carrying the Cross, Hieronymus Bosch, 1515-16 The Quintet of the Astonished, Bill Viola, 2000 (video rear projection on wall-mounted screen)

  10. Referencing Old Masters The Visitation, Jacopo daPontormo, 16th Cent. (left) The Greeting, Bill Viola, 1995 (right)

  11. Bill Viola The Making of Emergence - Interview

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