OFFmercoledì
From stage to painting,
PAINTING FROM THE SCREEN
in collaboration with Mart in Rovereto
Wednesday, May 5 - 21 hours
Cremaster 1
Matthew Barney, 1994
A cult movie, closer to video art and on film. Bjork's companion gave birth in 1994 to a real visual cycle, which is investigating the man and its manifestations through sounds and visions.
The Cremaster Cycle, the saga epic 'testicular muscle' (this is the famous translation of the word) is divided into five episodes that Barney wanted but did not meet the release of their numerical progression, but instead follow the following order: Cremaster 4 (1994), Cremaster 1 (1995), Cremaster 5 (1997), Cremaster 2 (1999), Cremaster 3 (2002). Certainly not coincidentally, the number sequence 4-1-5-2-3 has an obvious symmetry built around the number five in the center, which is also the sum of the pair of numbers to the right and left. But the game of combinations can still continue and build pyramids or series of opposing pairs always based on the number five, which corresponds to the classic plus pentapartizione in acts of ancient Greek tragedies. Like a great
genital metaphor, but without sexual intent, the saga Cremaster resolves his story exclusively on the basis of biological-organic, and a level of allegorical visions are always scientific references to the Treaty of andrology. There is no trace of eroticism or sensuality, while systematically explaining matters genital-chromosome project a hermaphrodite universe without repulsion for body fluids, orifices and cavernous bodies of any kind.
Removed all the phallic symbols and allusions to a level of eroticism, Barney focuses on scrotal alchemy, dark on mechanical properties of a muscle involuntary crimasterico the muscle, which act on the testicular contractions (close to the body in the gonads by the need to raise your basal body temperature for sperm production) and acts as a switch of the reproductive mechanism, and therefore chosen by Barney as a main element of his video work genital true cosmogony on the processes of sexual affirmation.
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