We went to see Matthew Barney at the Serpentine on Saturday, a hugely enjoyable exhibition. He is working with a huge range of mediums - drawing, photography, film, installation, sculpture, performance art with boundless, occasionally dark, imagination. Inspired by the idea of athletes resistance training, he applies all sorts of restraints to his body while drawing (see pic below where he draw while climbing on the wall), exhibiting the resulting drawings, props and video documentation of the performances in the spaces where the actions had taken place:
The Drawing Restraint series investigates the relationship between resistance and creativity and artistic and athletic bodies working at the threshold of physical limitations.
or as Sheira said, it looks like some arty spin-off of jackass…
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