Matthew Barney’s comprehensive and layered “Redoubt” explores themes of hunting, predation, guns, voyeurism, dance, landscape politics, metallurgy, and transformation through a unique take on the myth of Diana and Actaeon.

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Matthew Barney's new film, Redoubt, follows the Roman goddess of the hunt as she tracks wolves through the mountains of central Idaho. In his latest film, “Redoubt,” Barney eschews the epic turgidness of his five-film “Cremaster Cycle” — and the scatological grotesque of “River of Fundament” — for something that speaks more directly to themes of nature, the myths of the contemporary American West and the people who seek […] 1967, San Francisco, lives and works in New York) has combined traditional casting methods and new digital technologies with unprecedented techniques to create artworks of formal and material complexity, and narrative density. Film Review: Matthew Barney’s ‘Redoubt’ Matthew Barney takes aim at the great American pastime of hunting in his most straightforward feature yet, contrasting art with artillery. On view at the Yale University Art Gallery until June 16, 2019, Redoubt is a multimedia exhibition comprised of a 134 minute-long, non dialogue film, monumental sculpture, and a series of electroplated engravings. By Robyn Jasko. Matthew Barney: Redoubt is a comprehensive catalogue of the artist’s newest project, which centers on a two-hour film that creates a complex portrait of the American landscape by layering classical, cosmological, and American myths about humanity’s place in the natural world. Redoubt is an ensemble exhibition by Matthew Barney. Matthew Barney, Redoubt (production still) Matthew Barney’s Redoubt: As Much an Experience as a Film. At the heart of Redoubt, Matthew Barney's latest project comprising four room-size sculptures, more than 40 engravings and a nearly 400-page … Matthew Barney: Redoubt was organized by the Yale University Art Gallery, where it was shown from March 1 to June 16, 2019. Photo courtesy of the artist and … — Jason Farago, The New York Times “Matthew Barney’s Redoubt is as much an experience as a film. Matthew Barney, Redoubt, production still, 2018. In the film, the goddess Diana and her two attendants traverse the rugged terrain of Idaho’s Sawtooth The 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 . Ovid’s telling of the story of Diana and Actaeon, which supposedly inspired Matthew Barney’s new feature-length work, Redoubt, is one of those myths of mortal trespass that artists can’t resist, perhaps because on some level they would like to imagine themselves as doing something worthy of cruel punishment by the gods. The Yale University Art Gallery recently unveiled Matthew Barney: Redoubt, a mesmerizing exhibition of the renowned contemporary artist pairing bronze sculptures, electroplated copper plates, and film, among other mediums.The exhibition centers around a two-hour film that traces the story of a wolf hunt in … Matthew Barney, Redoubt, production still, 2018. I love the new, more open Mr. Barney of Redoubt." Matthew Barney's Redoubt Opens at Yale University Art Gallery . Stunning cinematography… Photo courtesy of the artist and Gladstone Gallery, New York and Brussels via UCCA. "Cremaster" artist and filmmaker Matthew Barney updates the tale of Diana, the Roman goddess of the hunt, by setting the action of "Redoubt" in the Idaho wilderness. Kind of.

Redoubt has a mystical pull." Courtesy of the Artist and Gladstone Gallery, New York and Brussels.