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Cremaster 5: The Queen of Chain
Details
Matthew Barney (B. 1967)
Cremaster 5: The Queen of Chain
signed and dated ‘Matthew Barney ‘97’ (on the reverse)
silver gelatin print in artist's self-lubricating acrylic frame
41¼ x 34¾in. (104.8 x 88.3cm.)
Executed in 1997, this work is number three from an edition of six plus two artist's proofs
Cremaster 5: The Queen of Chain
signed and dated ‘Matthew Barney ‘97’ (on the reverse)
silver gelatin print in artist's self-lubricating acrylic frame
41¼ x 34¾in. (104.8 x 88.3cm.)
Executed in 1997, this work is number three from an edition of six plus two artist's proofs
Provenance
Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1998.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1998.
Literature
Barbara Gladstone Gallery and M. Barney (eds.), Matthew Barney: Cremaster 5, New York 2002 (another from the edition illustrated, front and back covers).
A. Lindemann, Collecting Contemporary, Cologne 2006 (another from the edition illustrated, p. 71).
A. Lindemann, Collecting Contemporary, Cologne 2006 (another from the edition illustrated, p. 71).
Exhibited
Cologne, Museum Ludwig, Matthew Barney, The Cremaster Cycle, 2002-2003, p. 513 (another from the edition exhibited and illustrated, pp. 416 and 476). This exhibition later travelled to Paris, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris and New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.
Salamanca, DA2 Domus Artium, Baroque y Neo-Baroque: The Hell of the Beautiful, 2005-2006.
Bonn, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Through the Looking Brain: A Swiss Collection of Conceptual Photography, 2011-2012 (illustrated in colour, p. 204). This exhibition later travelled to St. Gallen, Kunstmuseum St. Gallen.
Salamanca, DA2 Domus Artium, Baroque y Neo-Baroque: The Hell of the Beautiful, 2005-2006.
Bonn, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Through the Looking Brain: A Swiss Collection of Conceptual Photography, 2011-2012 (illustrated in colour, p. 204). This exhibition later travelled to St. Gallen, Kunstmuseum St. Gallen.
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