![]() Of the five sculptures featured, one is a previously unseen piece, specially created according to the dimensions of UCCA’s Great Hall and displayed for the first time ever at the Beijing installment of “Redoubt.” Each sculpture is a literal vestige of Idaho, with the remains of the tree being subsumed into the artwork. Molten copper and brass were poured through the trees, creating a unique cast of the core as the metal flowed inside. The five monumental sculptures in the exhibition, for instance, derive from trees harvested from a burned forest in the Sawtooth Mountains of central Idaho, near the artist’s childhood home. 1967, San Francisco, lives and works in New York) has combined traditional casting methods and new digital technologies with unprecedented techniques to create artworks of formal and material complexity, and narrative density. The artworks in “Redoubt” continue the artist’s notable shift in materials over the past decade, from the plastic and petroleum jelly of his early works to the cast metals that figured prominently in River of Fundament (2014). After its run at UCCA, in October 2020 it will travel to the Hayward Gallery in London. The exhibition was first displayed at Yale University Art Gallery from March 1 to June 16, 2019. Also featured are five monumental sculptures, more than fifty engravings and electroplated copper plates, and an artist-conceived catalogue. The exhibition includes an eponymous two-hour film that traces the story of a wolf hunt in Idaho’s Sawtooth Mountain range, intertwining the theme of the hunt with those of mythology and artistic creation. From Septemthrough January 12, 2020, UCCA presents “Matthew Barney: Redoubt,” a major new body of work realized between 20 that marks the artist’s first solo exhibition in China. ![]()
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