I think what interests me the most is when the two things are developed at the same time, which certainly feels natural for the way of working when there is no dialogue. You sort of depend on the music to… — Matthew Barney Copy Share Image
A lot of my work has to do with not allowing my characters to have an ego in a way that the stomach doesn't… — Matthew Barney Copy Share Image
I have a need to make these sorts of connections literal sometimes, and a vehicle often helps to do that. I have a relationship… — Matthew Barney Copy Share Image
Somebody like Mailer brings to that role everything that he stands for. The types of characters that I gravitate towards, the types of icons,… — Matthew Barney Copy Share Image
A lot of these angles are really about trying to mimic broadcast sports angles in order to anchor the scene, to sort of normalize… — Matthew Barney Copy Share Image
I've always thought of the project as a sort of sexually driven digestive system, that it was a consumer and a producer of matter.… — Matthew Barney Copy Share Image
An interesting thing happened in 1989, right as I was graduating: the stock market crashed and really changed the landscape of the art world… — Matthew Barney Copy Share Image
I think what interests me the most is when the two things are developed at the same time, which certainly feels natural for the… — Matthew Barney Copy Share Image
Jackass: The Movie is great. I think it's in the tradition of physical comedy, which I'm really interested in. Its relationship to gravity, and… — Matthew Barney Copy Share Image
I don't think my work is so strange. It's just a matter of having the discipline to go the whole way with an idea,… — Matthew Barney Copy Share Image
[I have a] way of making narrative sculpture, where first you make a text and out of that text you make objects. [...] I… — Matthew Barney Copy Share Image
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