Matthew Barney's Cremaster Cycle

 

Matthew Barney's concepts take place inside of fantasy world with animorphs, high key complimentary and analogous color schemes, and Bjork. His work often involves the idea of animals, which may be alluding to the primal character of sex, of humanities true animalistic nature. However, what seems to be the main characters in his performances is a man. His themes reference ideas the male sexuality and virility. Essentially his work is about the physical exertion put forth in creating a piece of art work. In the third Cremaster Cycle the main character scales the inside of the New York Guggenheim museum. The word Cremaster reference a part of the male anatomy that lowers and raises the testicles. This, and several moments of his film in which ideas of the reproductive process seem to be depicted, cause me to believe that these fantasy worlds exist inside of this process of reproduction.