MATTHEW BARNEY (b. 1967) CREMASTER 1: GOODYEA

A PRIVATE AMERICAN COLLECTION OF CONTEMPORARY PHOTOGRAPHY

Provenance
Barbara Gladstone Gallery, NEW YORK

Exhibited
BASEL, Museum für Gegenwartskunst, MATTHEW BARNEY: CREMASTER 1, March 28-June 28, 1998 (another example exhibited
Deichtorhallen Hamburg, EMOTION: YOUNG BRITISH AND AMERICAN ART FROM THE GOETZ COLLECTION, October 30, 1998-January 17, 1999, p. 96 (another example exhibited illustrated)

Literature
K. Schampers, ed., MATTHEW BARNEY: PACE CAR FOR THE HUBRIS PILL, ROTTERDAM, 1995, pp. 38-39 (illustrated)
Z. Felix, ed., EMOTION: YOUNG BRITISH AND AMERICAN ART FROM THE GOETZ COLLECTION, HAMBURG,1998, p. 96 (illustrated)
U.Grösenick and B. Riemschneider, ART AT THE TURN OF THE MILLENNIUM, COLOGNE, 1999, p. 60, no. 04 (illustrated)
N. Spector, ed., MATTHEW BARNEY: THE CREMASTER CYCLE, NEW YORK, 2002, p. 510

BEING IN CREMASTER 1 WASN'T LIKE BEING IN A REGULAR FILM. IT WAS MORE LIKE BEING IN A SILENT FILM. MATTHEW WOULD TALK TO ME WHILE THEY WERE FILMING. HE'D SAY SIMPLE THINGS LIKE, 'GET THE GRAPES. GET THE GRAPES.' SOMETIMES HE ENCOURAGED ME LIKE A SPORTS COACH: 'GO! GO! GO!' HE NEVER SAID, 'YOU'RE REPRESENTING A UTERUS,' OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT. INSTEAD, IT WAS ALL ABOUT DOING LITTLE ACTIVITIES. HE'D SAY, 'YOU'RE HIDING UNDER A TABLE, AND YOUR GOAL IS TO GET THESE GRAPES.'
Marti Domination, performance artist, GOODYEAR, CREMASTER 1 quoted in N. Spector, MATTHEW BARNEY: THE CREMASTER CYCLE, NEW YORK, 2002, p. 486