Matthew Barney’s “Drawing Restraint” movie

23 Feb 2006 Category: Events & Exhibitions, Japan, Music

Matthew Barney’s “Drawing Restraint” movie

Björk and Matthew Barney in Drawing Restraint 9

Checking what was on at Cinema Rise in Shibuya, I noticed that Matthew Barney’s latest movie Drawing Restraint made it into the art cinemas. How nice!

A little while back, Kyoko and I travelled all the way to the Kanazawa 21st Century Museum just to see Drawing Restraint. (Read our full report on that one here) Barney has been working on the “Drawing Restraint” (that is, drawing while restraining his body movement) project since the 80’s when he created DR 1 to 8. The film “Drawing Restraint 9″ was created especially for the Kanazawa 21st Century Museum with Barney’s interpretation of Japan. After doing a lot of research about this country, he got to the theme of whale hunting in the end.

one example of drawing while restraining your body: Matthey Barney used this trampoline to reach the ceiling where he created a drawing (part of the Drawing Restraint exhibition at the Kanazawa 21st Century Museum)

he also climbed up to the very top of this high ceiling and created another drawing there (part of the Drawing Restraint exhibition at the Kanazawa 21st Century Museum)

I don’t want to give away too much, in case you haven’t seen the movie yet (at Cinema Rise until 3rd of March 2006, 11:30, 14:20, 17:10, 20:00~22:30 more info here).

scenes from the movie as part of the Drawing Restraint exhibition at the Kanazawa 21st Century Museum

Since Drawing Restraint 9 combines two of my favorite artists: Matthew Barney and Björk (!) I just had to see it. But I must warn you: it has some pretty intense scenes with blood and cutting flesh and….well….disgusting imagery! If you manage to get through this, you get to understand the real beauty and poetry of this film!

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