Matthew Barney to Perform at Art Basel

Matthew Barney's Guardian of the Veil will be presented at this summer's Art Basel as part of “Il Tempo del Postino”, a series of performance works directed by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Philippe Parreno, Anri Sala and Rirkrit Tiravanija. There will be three presentations of “Il Tempo del Postino,” on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, June 10 – 12, 2009 at 8.30 pm at Theater Basel.

In addition to Barney's performance, "Il Tempo del Postino" will include pieces by Doug Aitken, Tacita Dean, Trisha Donnelly, Olafur Eliasson, Peter Fischli / David Weiss, Liam Gillick, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Douglas Gordon, Carsten Höller, Pierre Huyghe, Koo Jeong-A, Philippe Parreno, Anri Sala, Tino Sehgal and Rirkrit Tiravanija, and Thomas Demand.

More information is available on the Art Basel web site. Tickets are priced from Swfr80-200 ($68-$171) and may be purchased HERE. We anticipate this event will sell out quickly, so buy your tickets soon if you are planning to attend Art Basel.

Joseph Kosuth Vs. Matthew Barney

Cremaster fanatic Carolyn emailed us to let us know that she has posted a (bootleg) video of Laurina Paperina's animation Joseph Kosuth Versus Matthew Barney, as seen at the Pulse Art Fair in New York a few weeks ago. You can see the video here and more of Laurina's artwork here.

Matthew Barney Updates

We've completed a major update to CremasterFanatic.com If you haven't visited lately, please check out all of the new material. We've added tons of pictures, videos, artwork, and more!

Among our favorites are:

Pages of production photographs showing the making of The Cremaster Cycle, Drawing Restraint, De Lama Lamina, Guardian of the Veil, and Ren.

New Fan Art.

New Fan Videos.

A few more Fan Costumes.

Drawing Restraint 9 Glossary

And, of course, loads and loads of photos of Matthew 1 2 3 4

Matthew Barney at MoMA

Two works from Matthew Barney's Drawing Restraint 9 are included in the Here is Every. exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. The Deportment of the Host is a massive sculpture made from cast polycaprolactone thermoplastic and self-lubricating plastic depicting the tea ceremony room from the Nisshin Maru. Also on view (in the background of the above photograph) is Drawing Restraint 9: Shimenawa - a photograph of Barney and Bjork (as the Occidental Guests) kissing.

The exhibition will be on view through March 23, 2009.

Photograph from LA gal's flickr photostream.

Elizabeth Peyton Paints Matthew Barney

We apologize for posting this information after the show has closed, but Elizabeth Peyton's recent solo exhibition at Gavin Brown's Enterprise in New York featured the above portrait of Matthew Barney, titled Matthew March 2008.

Cremaster Fanatic Matthew Barney Exhibition at Sara Tecchia New York Opening Dec. 18

First off, we apologize for going so long without posting. This has been a hectic month, we hope to do better in the new year.

CremasterFanatic.com founder Eric Doeringer has created an installation of Matthew Barney photographs, collectibles, and fan art for the exhibition "And, Who Are You?" at Sara Tecchia, 529 West 20th Street, 2nd Floor, New York City. The exhibition runs from December 18 - January 26. We hope you will join us at the opening reception from 6 - 8 on December 18.

Martin Sastre at Momenta Art, Brooklyn

Madrid-based, Uruguyan-born artist Martin Sastre will be showing two new videos involving Matthew Barney at Momenta Art in Brooklyn, NY, from October 12 - November 12.

The first video, Bolivia 3: Confederation Next, is a science fiction adventure set in the year 2876 when South America has united and the United States no longer exists. Sastre portrays an underdog hero battling an evil empire embodied by Matthew Barney. The other video is an invitation from Sastre's grandmother to Matthew Barney and Björk to spend a traditional Uruguayan Christmas with her and her 6 children and 13 grandchildren. This video will be posted on YouTube as an open letter to Mr. and Mrs. Barney.

Eric Doeringer - IPO at the Whitney Museum Friday 9.28

CremasterFanatic.com founder Eric Doeringer will be speaking about his work, including CremasterFanatic.com and The Matthew Barney Show, at the Whitney Museum in New York at 7 pm on Friday, September 28. Eric will be joined by William Powhida, Filip Noterdaeme, Carrie McLaren, and hostess Lisa Levy.

Admission to the Whitney is pay-what-you-wish starting at 6:00 and the first 200 attendees will receive a signed limited-edition print by Eric Doeringer. Reserve tickets at http://www.whitney.org/www/programs/eventcalendar.jsp?cat=1

Cremaster Fanatic Animated Banner

Many thanks to Cremaster Fanatic Paul, who created this great animated banner for us. The full-size banner isn't compatible with Blogger -- Click here to see at full-size.

We are always happy to accept submissions of Matthew Barney-related artwork, photographs etc. Please email them to info (at) cremasterfanatic.com

Click here for more great Matthew Barney fan art.