Review of Death on the Nile at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

28/02/16
Death on the Nile: Uncovering the Afterlife of ancient Egypt
Fitzwilliam Museum
23 February - 22 May 2016

Published in The Mail on Sunday, 28/02/16

Review of Matthew Barney: River of Fundament at Haus der Kunst, Munich

03/04/14

Matthew Barney: River of Fundament

Haus der Kunst, Munich

17 March – 17 August 2014

“… Like a serpent whose insides have blown apart, I gave up, sued for peace, and gave birth to my bloody clotting history of coiled and twisted eviscerate.” [Norman Mailer, Ancient Evenings]

Matthew Barney (b1967), best known for his Cremaster Cycle (1994-2002), comprising five films, with accompanying photographs, drawings, sculptures and installations, filled with anatomical allusions to the position of the reproductive organs during the embryonic process of sexual differentiation, is back. His latest project, River of Fundament, a further collaboration with Berlin-based American composer Jonathan Bepler, likewise comprises a film (given its European premiere at the Bavarian State Opera house in Munich on 16 March 2014), 15 large-scale sculptures, several series of drawings and some “archival” photographs, story boards and annotated books (Libretti).

To read the rest of this review, please go to: http://www.studiointernational.com/index.php/matthew-barney-river-of-fundament-haus-der-kunst-munich