Matthew Barney : The Cremaster cycle (Paris edition)

Paris : Musee d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, 2002 (New York : Guggenheim Museum, 2002). Thick quarto, embossed silk wrappers, pp. xv, 522, diecut edges, a fine copy. Text in English Published on the occasion of the exhibition Matthew Barney: the Cremaster Cycle, Musueum Ludwig, Cologne, June 6-September 1, 2002; Musee d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, October 10, 2002-Jan 5, 2003; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, February 14-May 11, 2003.

The mammoth illustrated photobook conceived as part of Barney’s epic five part filmic immersion The Cremaster cycle  (1994 – 2002), the climactic exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum and publication written by curator Nancy Spector who describes the work as “a self-enclosed aesthetic system”. This is the softcover edition published for the Paris showing of the exhibition.