Cremaster 2: The Royal Cell

Details

Matthew Barney (b. 1967)
Cremaster 2: The Royal Cell
signed and dated 'Matthew Barney '99' (on the reverse of the center element)
three elements--color coupler print in artist's self-lubricating frame
each: 42 1/4 x 33 1/8 in. (107.3 x 84.1 cm.)
(3)Executed in 1999. This work is number two from an edition of three plus one artist's proof.

Provenance

Gladstone Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 2004

Exhibited

Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, Age of Influence: Reflections in the Mirror of American Culture, March- November 2000 (another example exhibited).
Cologne, Museum Ludwig; Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris and New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Matthew Barney: The CREMASTER Cycle, June 2002-May 2003, pp. 186, 194, 199, 464 and 511 (another example illustrated and exhibited).

Lot Essay

"The five chapters of the story are about an organism that is changing, and the system that changes that form alters from chapter to chapter...It's essentially about an imposed will onto the state of the [Cremaster] form, sometimes in a very abstract way, sometimes in a more literal, biological way. But it's basically a structural word. It's being used as a way to tell the story, and not as a way to define a biological system at all." – Matthew Barney

Cremaster 2: The Royal Cell

Lot Essay

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