“But what was originally a joint celebration of the acquisition has ended up being much more than that,” says Neville Wakefield, who was invited to curate the show. The sculptures, drawings, vitrines and videos arising from the performances form the Drawing Restraint archives recently acquired by Schaulager’s supporting body, the Laurenz Foundation, together with the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Matthew Barney, DRAWING RESTRAINT 2, 1988, Documentary Photograph © Matthew Barney, Photo: Michael Rees “Prayer Sheet with the Wound and the Nail” until October 2010 captures the evolution of the artist through his 16 Drawing Restraint performances dating from 1988, when he was still at Yale, to 2007 at the Serpentine Gallery in London.ĭrawing Restraint is the process by which Barney obstructs his own artistic production through physical or psychological restraints, like ramps, elastic belts, trampolines or, on a grander scale, limousine cars and Japanese whale fleets.
1967), the Yale football star turned darling of the international art scene, inaugurates an exhibition in Basel that is ambitious, sophisticated and puzzling. Hailed by the New York Times as “the most important American artist of his generation”, Matthew Barney (b. Matthew Barney, DRAWING RESTRAINT 15, 2007, Documentary Photograph © Matthew Barney, Photo: Neville Wakefield Renaissance masterpieces as well as two new pieces by Barney complete the show. Barney’s fame as a brilliant and bizarre artist is confirmed in the collection jointly acquired by New York Museum of Modern Art and Schaulager that forms the crux of the exhibition. American artist Matthew Barney opens a groundbreaking exhibition at the mythical Schaulager in Basel.
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