Matthew Barney – Church of Cremaster
In 2003, when I made this documentary, Matthew Barney had just completed the Cremaster Cycle (1994-2002), the Sistine Chapel of our times. Perhaps, five hundred years from now, the Cremaster will not be considered one of the masterpieces of European civilisation, but in other ways Barney’s Magnum Opus – five films whose length varies between ...
House of Horror
If Gregor Schneider was a film-maker, he’d be John Carpenter or Wes Craven. He is contemporary art’s answer to the Horror movie, an artist who makes sinister and disturbing rooms, corridors, hallways and other interior or enclosed architectural spaces. In 2007, he exhibited “White Torture” in Hamburg – a corridor and linked rooms, all in ...
Relational Art
I’ve always liked Isms. A hundred years ago there seemed to be lots of them. Impressionism, Fauvism, Expressionism, Cubism… in the early twentieth century hardly five years seemed to go by without the arrival of a new Ism. But in recent years, I had noticed a terrible dearth of ‘isms.’ Artists, I was told by ...
Maurizio Cattelan
Maurizio Cattelan is the world’s funniest artist. His ultra-realist works of art are three-dimensional cartoons about the contradictions and follies of the art world, art history and, beyond that, of Western civilization. Born in Italy in 1960, Cattelan made his name with sculptures like “The Ninth Hour”, a waxwork of the Pope struck by a ...
Art Safari Series 1 & 2
Art Safari Series I, Autumn 2003, include: – GREGOR SCHNEIDER – MAURIZIO CATTELAN – MATTHEW BARNEY Art Safari, Series II, 2005/6, include: – SANTIAGO SIERRA – TAKASHI MURAKAMI – WIM DELVOYE – SOPHIE CALLE 30 min series about verious artists of the international art scene for BBC4, TV2, Arte, ZDF, YLE, SBS Nominated for a ...