Matthew Barney

Sadie Coles HQ, Gladstone Gallery, Regen Projects and Galerie Max Hetzler are pleased to announce SECONDARY, an exhibition in four parts by Matthew Barney. Unfolding sequentially across the galleries, each presentation traces the artist’s career-long interest in the relationship between the body, transmogrification, physical possibility and the deep-rooted history of violence that serves as a cornerstone to the American psyche. In addition to a new series of sculptures and drawings, Barney will premier his film, SECONDARY, in London, Paris and Los Angeles. Across the installations, Barney re-maps subject matter that has repeatedly circulated within his oeuvre, conflating notions of material potential and mythmaking with the spectre of entropic collapse.

The publication is an oversized zine with pages of black-and-white photography from production rehearsals printed on uncoated paper wrapped around a glossy, full-color interior with design cues from playbills and old football magazines. The book mirrors qualities of Barney's studio, which serves as the setting for both the exhibition and the video, and features stills from the film; profiles of the performers; as well as photographs of sets, props, and sculptures used in the film.