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March 05, 2006
The trouble with writing…
It’s never easy to write about art, especially considering the Chinese proverb: one picture is worth ten thousand words. And it’s particularly hard to write about modern art.
“Preselected for their valences these diverse locations form their own constellation, the outline of which metaphorically traces the cyclical path taken by an organism in conflict with itself. Collectively they demarcate a distinct landscape, a unique intercontinental geographic swath that is imbued with narrative. The confluence of place and story in the Cremaster cycle reinforces the sculptural dimensionality of the films while literally grounding their metaphoric content in the empirical world.”
Nancy Spector, Curator of Contemporary Art at the Guggenheim Museum, discussing locations used by Matthew Barney for The Cremaster Cycle
Posted by john at March 5, 2006 08:56 PM