Matthew Barney’s REPRESSIA (decline) at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art by Chris Doyen - London
about 10 months ago (12/12/2023)
Matthew Barney’s REPRESSIA (decline) at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art advertise donate post your art opening recent articles cities contact about article index podcast main December 2023 "The Best Art In The World" "The Best Art In The World" December 2023 Matthew Barney’s REPRESSIA (decline) at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Matthew Barney, Cremaster 5 (production still), 1997 (fig. 1) © Matthew Barney, Photo: Michael James O’Brien, Courtesy of the artist and Gladstone Gallery By CHRIS DOYEN December 5, 2023 Whether it be staging a demolition derby in the Chrysler building, filling the Goodyear blimp with Vaseline sculptures, deconstructing the motif of American football, or referencing the Roman goddess Diana, the formal characteristics of Matthew Barney’s artworks often seem to dismantle mythologies from the inside out (fig. 1).