MATTHEW BARNEY

Co-Presented by LIVE from the NYPL and The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

From his earliest work, Matthew Barney has explored the transcendence of physical limitations within an interdisciplinary art practice. Even an examination of his work within one medium -- as is the case with Subliming Vessel: The Drawings of Matthew Barney, The Morgan Library & Museum's new exhibition devoted to the artist's works on paper and Rizzoli's new book by the same name -- reveals the complexity of his creative vision. Featuring nearly one hundred drawings, the exhibition spans Barney's career, from his earliest works on paper made in the late 1980s, to drawings created in conjunction with his epic CREMASTER Cycle, a five-part film series that also incorporated sculptures and photographs, as well as storyboards of his latest project, River of Fundament, loosely based on Norman Mailer's 1983 novel Ancient Evenings and blending narrative cinema with opera, sculpture and live performance.

Now, to coincide with the opening of the Morgan exhibition and release of Rizzoli's accompanying book, Barney joins Paul Holdengräber to explore his boundless imagination and wide-ranging career.

Matthew Barney was born in San Francisco in 1967 and raised in Boise, Idaho. He attended Yale University, receiving his BA in 1989, then moved to New York City, where he resides today. Barney has received numerous awards for his work including the Aperto prize at the 1993 Venice Biennale; the Hugo Boss Award in 1996; the 2007 Kaiser Ring Award in Goslar, Germany and the San Francisco International Film Festival’s Persistence of Vision Award in 2011.

Check out Matthew Barney's current exhibition at The Morgan Library & Museum here!