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Matthew Barney

Matthew Barney was born in San Francisco in 1967. In 1991, he graduated from Yale University. Since then, he has created work that fuses sculptural installations with performance and video. His singular vision foregrounds the physical rigors of sport and its erotic undercurrents to explore the limits of the body and sexuality. He is best known as the creator of the CREMASTER films, a series of five visually extravagant works created out of sequence. The films are a grand mixture of history, autobiography, and mythology, an intensely private universe in which symbols and images are densely layered and interconnected. The resulting cosmology is both beautiful and complex. Matthew Barney won the prestigious Europa 2000 prize at the 45th Venice Biennale in 1993. He was also the first recipient of the Guggenheim MuseumÕs Hugo Boss Award. Matthew Barney lives and works in New York City. Public collection: MOMA, New York / Solomon R Guggenheim Museum, New York / Whitney Museum of American Art , New York / Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas / MCA Chicago / Walker Art Center, Minneapolis / Tate Gallery, London / Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo

Matthew Barney
Drawing Restraint

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Bjork

Born in Raykjavik, Iceland, 1965. Lives in New York. She had learned piano for nine years since she was 5 years old. In 1977, her CD "Bjork" became her the world's best-known Icelandic musician, when she was at the young age of 11. She formed her band "Sugarcubes" in 1986. Their debut album "Life is Too Good" acquired worldwide popularity in 1988. After she disbanded, she has started solo works and released ÒdebutÓ in 1993. She appeared in the film "Dancer In The Dark", and won the Best Actress award at the 2000 Cannes film festival. By this , she has been known as an actress in the world. In 1996, Bjork visited Japan for the first time, lived at Budokan. As "Diva in Iceland", she has been getting many fans by performing in Fuji Rock Festival, Athens 2004 Olympic Games. In 2005, she appeared in Matthew Barney's film "Drawing Restraint 9", and took a charge of sound truck of this film.

Matthew Barney "Drawing Restraint 9" (2005) Production Photograph.
ý2005 Matthew Barney. Photo: Chris Winget. Courtesy Gladstone Gallery, New York
ý2005 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, all rights reserved

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