October Matthew Barney Exhibitions / Screenings

California State University Long Beach will screen all five movies in the Cremaster Cycle next month, in conjunction with their exhibition of Matthew Barney's special effects collaborator Gabe Bartolos: Abhorrence and Obsession  (running through December 8). The screenings will be held on three consecutive Saturdays, October 5, 12, and 19. Ticket info and the full schedule are here.

Also next month, Matthew Barney's drawing exhibition The Subliming Vessel (aka La Chambre de Sublimation) will open at the Bibliotheque National de France in Paris on October 8. A version of the exhibition was previously on view at the Morgan Library in New York, but the French installation will include materials drawn from the BnF's collection that were not shown in New York. The exhibition includes approximately 80 drawings, created between 1988 and 2011 and related to projects from the Cremaster Cycle through the currently in-process River of Fundament. Barney will also create a new work in the Drawing Restraint series at the BnF, in a performance that will be filmed for future use. The exhibition runs through January 5.

Gabe Bartalos Exhibition

Matthew Barney's long time collaborator Gabe Bartalos is having an exhibition of his special effects work at the University Art Museum at California State University, Long Beach through December 8. The exhibition, titled Gabe Bartalos: Abhorrence and Obsession, includes a number of pieces Bartalos made for Barney's films, including a statue of the Loughton Candidate swathed in Vaseline from Cremaster 4, a zombie horse from Cremaster 3, and, perhaps most provocative, replicas of Matthew Barney and Bjork's genitals (and feet) from Drawing Restraint 9.

Photos by Brian Addison, via lbpost.com

Drawing Restraint 9 Special Effects Photos

Gabe Bartolos, the man behind the special effects for most of Matthew Barney's films, has updated the web site for his company Atlantic West Effects to include some images from the making of Drawing Restraint 9. You can see the new photos (and some older production photos from The Cremaster Cycle) at http://www.atlanticwesteffects.com/featured/mb/index.html