![]() For me, the film showed two artists creating drawings from the wolfs in their natural habitat. ‘Redoubt’ is a type of defensive military fortification, which is commonly linked to the American survivalist movement. Storytelling through different characters which meet for the first time at the end, a Quentin Tarantino special. The film also helped explain the process of creating the electroplated copper plate designs which were being displayed in the gallery. The film was my favourite part of the exhibition, the directing, shots, storyline and scenery created a beautiful cinematic piece. The flexibility, the dance, and the rhythm of the actors, make the comparison between them and a wolf realistic. Actors were impersonating wolfs, showing characteristics. The film shows the mountains of Idaho completely covered in snow. The film was my favourite piece of art shown in the exhibition. There was also a 2 hour (or so) feature film that was being played in the exhibition. The work is expressed through sculptures cast from burnt trees and engravings onto electroplated copper. The exhibition that I went to see is called ‘Debout.’ It focuses on the global impact of deforestation. Matthew Barney is an artist, cultivator, and designer whose work has been influenced by ecological and sustainable development of the world. I went to see the exhibition last Saturday at the Southbank Centre and I have to say, I found it thoroughly impressive. “Barney paints a cinematic picture of the American West, trading his familiar baroque visuals for the straightforward sublimity of the landscape and the ineffable strangeness of its inhabitants.Matthew Barney ‘Debout’ at the Hayward Gallery Southbank Centre. “The least strenuous and most beautiful film Barney has made.” Barney’s work is a synthesis of creative intelligences, his and his collaborators.” The visual narrative of REDOUBT has a graceful fluidity, enhanced by an aurally mesmerizing score by Jonathan Bepler, Barney’s long-time collaborator… recalls the laconic, enigmatic dreaminess of Terrence Malick. “Breathtakingly beautiful… Matthew Barney’s film is a western that reaches for the cosmic.” Presented with support from the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation Fund. Matthew Barney’s show, Embrasure, is currently on exhibition through December 21 at Gladstone 64 (130 E. Note: no animals were harmed in the making of the film. Barney’s most engrossing film in over a decade… speaks directly to contemporary American themes: the place of the gun, the fate of the environment and the fantasies and paranoias of those who turn their back on constitutional government and American society” (Jason Farago, The New York Times). ![]() The title REDOUBT can refer to both a provisional military fortification, and a defensive, isolated psychological position – both evoked by the film’s setting in a vast Idaho wilderness. Wordless physical action, choreography and spectacular cinematography create a dreamlike logic. She’s accompanied by two nymphs on a wolf hunt (one, Eleanor Bauer, choreographed the film’s gravity-defying movements) Barney is the Engraver/forest ranger – stealthily etching their movements onto copper plates. In REDOUBT, the myth of Diana and Actaeon unfolds in Idaho’s majestic Sawtooth Mountains, with Diana played by real-life sharpshooter Anette Wachter. From the boundlessly fertile/febrile imagination of Matthew Barney, creator of the epic CREMASTER cycle. ![]()
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