Cremaster Fanatic Andrew sent us some photographs of the Drawing Restraint Volume V book and the following report:
"As you enter the gallery there is a bank of 8 screens showing various drawing restraints and when you move in to the second room there are the vitrines shown in Drawing restraint Volume 1. IN the first of the large rooms is the Ambergris scultpture which is connected via a long white rope to "holographic entrypoint" in a room on the opposite side of the gallery. In the central atrium he performed a drawing restraint where he climbed the four corners of the gallery to draw on the ceiling. He was supposed to do a fifth climb but it couldn't be completed, he described the work as "a beautiful failure". The exhibition catalogue is about 230 pages and is similar in format to Vols 1-3. It spans the whole Drawing restraint series 1-15 and includes a number of previously unseen images. I've attached some photos (sorry about the quality i only had my phone to hand). The limited edition portfolio is beautiful. The eight images are mounted on paper that is signed, numbered and embossed with the field emblem. They are all housed in a huge white self lubricating resin box. Each box has been individually customised by Matthew with a series of scratches/scores and gouges. In total it weighs apporximately 16.5 kilos!
I also went to the film screening last night where he also did a Q&A session afterwards. The films were great and the Q&A session was interesting. I asked him about how Guardian of the Veil (which is what he called it last night so it appears to be the correct title) and how it related to the cremaster films and he said that Guardian fo the veil is hopefully the start of a longer project where he will depict the seven levels of the descent to death (based on a book he read, the name of which completely escapes me at the moment) and that this first one was meant to be a funeral for the cremaster series. He also said that this new series of work will be live pieces done in real time, i hope they get filmed for a showing though! Aftwerwards he was happy to stay around and talk to everyone and he was incredibly friendly and chatty."
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The book he mentioned was
(cremaster 2's) Norman Mailers
Ancient Evenings, which is
about rites of the dead and
Egypt he said.
dear andrew, can you say me the price of the DR v.V? thank you!
The book was 25 pounds. In time
you can get probably get it on-line
from http://http://www.kunstbuchhandlung.de (the publisher) or amazon.
The book is £24.95 as far as i'm aware it is only being sold throught the gallery, I haven't found it online anywhere. It has artbook and kunstbuch as distibutors but these were distributors for volume III and i have never seen them make it available, i had to get my copy form korea.
thank you!
my friends will be on frieze, and they buy this book to me)
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