Pure potential.

very interesting indeed, thanks for sharing =)

i agree with you completely

@ImBoyCryWolf u single handedly made deep unuseable ever again. great job.

He's so deep. So deep. Wow, man. Deep.

I´ve been looking to see his Cremaster´s but I haven´t been able to get a hold of them.

@JackFromBeatStrings

7 жыл бұрын

He says they are never to be released for home consumption. Crispin Glover says the same thing about his films. We'll see...

@timo9802

7 жыл бұрын

they are on yt lol

He’s also a little disturbed.

mat barney is one of the few post modern era artist practitioners with the knowledge and the technical ability to make of the cliches of mythic and cinematic space a truly revelatory experience. the cremaster series is the best piece of film as art literally ever in my opinion. he does his home work,and it shows.

@imperatorfuriosa7061

2 жыл бұрын

I keep coming back to his works, year after year, and am reassured each time that nothing has topped it.

@lokthar6314

Жыл бұрын

No, this is pure sinister stuff advocating for satanic ritualism and pedophelia. You should be ashamed of your self and investigated by police immediately

@Bloodonthepick

Жыл бұрын

@@imperatorfuriosa7061I know this is probably a pointless question. But like, what is this? Why is it so difficult to find anything on these films or barneys other works. And speaking of Barney, is he some kind of modern renaissance man or something? I am so confused with this guy.

@Badiouian That's not what I was getting at. Who refers to their past football career as "when I was a young athlete"? But it's beside the point.

@davidaustin6962

4 жыл бұрын

He actually was a really good athlete. I don't know anything about art cinema and so I guess I don't appreciate it. At all. But he wasn't just a kid who played sports.

@ECDCXL He says: "a FIELD THAT I played on..." not: "a PLACE WHERE i played on..." It would be instructive to listen to what he actually says instead of making something up that you don't like only to criticize that instead. Just a thought.

"like all good art,... a kind of autobiography" hahaha

WOW! Even the plastic he uses has meaning!! Fucking genius.

@skyjuiceification Then I achieved precisely what I set out to do.

This guy is a genius. By that I mean he's so good at slapping crap together and letting arrogant jerks call it "art" he's laughing at people that like him all the way to the bank.

@origamibulldoser1618

8 жыл бұрын

+MetalLovinSportsLover So is anybody who likes this an arrogant jerk? Or is it simply coincidence that arrogant jerks like this? Do all arrogant jerks like it? Or just some of them?

@luisvickers2799

2 жыл бұрын

But he calls it art aswell

You really need to watch some good movies.

This guy should be locked behind bars

@cyclos12

Жыл бұрын

You are a artless person and I pity your weakness

@lokthar6314

Жыл бұрын

@@cyclos12 you are a sick person who has been raised by a weak coward and a useless female

@lokthar6314

Жыл бұрын

​@@cyclos12 ​ seeing a video of you I find it hillarious that you filthy little brat have the guts to speak about weakness. Your useless parents spoiled you in your childhood too much that's why you've turned into a weener-gargling emo

@cynthiapeters6209

Жыл бұрын

Agree! Sick

"a place where i played on as a young athlete." who talks like that?

Ha! The visuals at the time perplexed critics and audiences alike, but now look simple, and quite frankly dated (in 2018). The series work (somewhat) well in tandem with his installations, but only due to a collection of 'visuals', and not at all as actual films, due to basic editing, amateur production, and pacing. Therefore ,The Cremaster Series, are nothing but contrived expensive commercials for Barney's sculptures, which are, in their simple and isolated states, (for the lack of a better word) pretentious. I don't like them, they didn't speak to me. When they do, they don't say much. It's almost post-post-Warhol. But there is no in-joke. No humor. He is deadly serious! He isn't selling an idea here, or giving something freely even, which can be take away (in mind or heart), to be cherished later on, but rather, he is subjecting you to a "masturbation", his male "masturbation", in 5 parts, over 7 hours, which happen to take place in, near, on, or around his sculptures. Vaseline and all. It's pure narcissism, and self loathing all at the same time. One feeding (off) the other. An expensive wank. A violent dance between the American archetypes of (failed) Jock and (misunderstood) male child-artist. Enter the idea of the the supreme destruction of masculinity not by feminism, but surprisingly by the false constructs men created for themselves. Is Barney admitting all females are artists, as they are healers? Is he alluding to the fact that men have usurped these roles by brandishing women as witches, heretics, and objects; and hidden this by celebrating, congratulating and honouring only themselves along the way? Ha! Is he that smart? That generous? That forgiving? Yes! And.... No! But therein lies some glimmer of truth. And hope. A dilema of the current period (21 century). A schizoid social disorder. It's about him in all his maleness, virility, and self worth, and yet it's about all of us! As a result his art is mildly successful in the message it portrays, a reflection of our time (any glance at current affairs will show, both young and aging public ego masturbation fantasies seem to have taken over almost every political, social and cultural arenas). But sadly his art fails on a cerebral, and emotional level. Indeed ex-wifey Bjork was right! Barney fears limitless emotions. Including his own. Emotions, it seems he alluded to things which are feminine, weak, useless in his “art” world and in real life. And honestly, as a result we are as bored as she is (with his "apocalyptic obsessions.") Still thanks for the show Matt. Now pass the klenix please! Wink, wink!

"like all good art" well, first of all, you've qualified his art as being "good" so let's just stop right there