Matthew Barney: SECONDARY Magazine

Published in conjunction with SECONDARY, an exhibition in four parts by Matthew Barney. Unfolding sequentially across Gladstone Gallery, Sadie Coles HQ, Regen Projects, and Galerie Max Hetzler, each presentation traces the artist’s career-long interest in the relationship between the body, transmogrification, physical possibility, and the deep-rooted history of violence that serves as a cornerstone to the American psyche. In addition to a new series of sculptures and drawings, Barney will premiere his film, SECONDARY, in London, Paris, and Los Angeles. Across the installations, Barney remaps subject matter that has repeatedly circulated within his oeuvre, conflating notions of material potential and myth-making with the specter of entropic collapse.