By layering classical, cosmological, and American myths about humanity’s place in the natural world, Redoubt forms a complex portrait of the central Idaho region. Redoubt was filmed in Idaho’s rugged Sawtooth Mountains and continues Barney’s long-standing preoccupation with landscape as both a setting and subject in his films. On the plates that were left longest in the electroplating bath, the copper accretions overtake the drawing, transforming the engravings into abstract reliefs and almost completely obscuring the image. By altering the conditions in the electroplating tank-including current, heat, and chemical concentrations-the artist produced unique variations on each image. The plate was immersed in an acid and copper solution and was subjected to an electrical current, causing copper growths to form out of the engraved lines. In this experimental method, an image was engraved into a copper plate coated with asphalt. The electroplates were made using a technique that Barney developed during production of the film, which he then refined and expanded in the studio. The exhibition also includes engravings on copper plate that Barney made during the filming of Redoubt as well as a series of electroplated copper reliefs that feature imagery from the film, such as the landscape of the Sawtooth Mountains or a wolf among the trees. Each sculpture is a literal vestige of Idaho, with the remains of the tree being subsumed into the artwork. Molten copper and brass were poured through the trees, creating a unique cast of the core as the metal flowed inside. The four monumental sculptures in the exhibition, for instance, derive from trees harvested from a burned forest in the Sawtooth Mountains. With Redoubt, Barney has combined traditional casting methods and new digital technologies with unprecedented techniques to create artworks of formal and material complexity as well as narrative density. The new artworks in Redoubt continue the artist’s notable shift in materials over the past decade, from the plastic and petroleum jelly of his early works to the cast metals that figured prominently in River of Fundament. since the presentation of River of Fundament at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, in 2015–16. Matthew Barney: Redoubt is Barney’s first solo museum exhibition in the U.S. Matthew Barney: Redoubt will be on view from March 1 to June 16, 2019. This is the artist’s first major exhibition at his alma mater (Barney studied art at Yale, receiving his B.A. Also featured are four monumental sculptures, more than forty engravings and electroplated copper plates, and an artist-conceived catalogue. The exhibition includes an eponymous two-hour film that traces the story of a wolf hunt in Idaho’s Sawtooth Mountain range, intertwining the theme of the hunt with those of mythology and artistic creation. The Yale University Art Gallery is pleased to announce Matthew Barney: Redoubt, an exhibition of the renowned contemporary artist’s latest body of work (2016–19). "A mesmerizing movie.Yale University Art Gallery announces exhibition and publication of latest work by renowned contemporary artist Matthew Barney "Barney paints a cinematic picture of the American West, trading his familiar baroque visuals for the straightforward sublimity of the landscape and the ineffable strangeness of its inhabitants." - Catherine Taft, Artforum "Conjures a magisterial world similarly balanced between the natural and the supernatural." - Jeffrey Kastner, 4Columns "The most beautiful film Barney has made." - Sebastian Smee, Washington Post ![]() ![]() Has a graceful fluidity, enhanced by an aurally mesmerizing score by Jonathan Bepler, Barney’s long-time collaborator… recalls the laconic, enigmatic dreaminess of Terrence Malick.” - Clayton Press, Forbes Stunning cinematography… Viscerally satisfying, emotionally cathartic… An unsettling mediation on humanity’s relationship to nature and to itself.” - Shana Nys Dambrot, LA Weekly “Matthew Barney’s Redoubt is as much an experience as a film. Barney of Redoubt." - Jason Farago, The New York Times ![]() Barney’s most engrossing film in over a decade. Redoubt has a mystical pull." - Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times Builds an emotional power that’s unusual in any kind of art." - Glenn Kenny, The New York Times “Critic’s Pick! Breathtakingly beautiful… Matthew Barney’s film is a western that reaches for the cosmic.
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