Regen Projects is pleased to participate in Art Basel Miami Beach 2024. This digital showcase reflects highlights from the gallery's in-person presentation, which brings together outstanding artworks representing the diverse media, styles, and techniques employed by the gallery's artists.
Featured artists include Doug Aitken, Kader Attia, Matthew Barney, Kevin Beasley, Walead Beshty, Georgia Gardner Gray, Rachel Harrison, Alex Hubbard, Elliott Hundley, Sergej Jensen, Anish Kapoor, Liz Larner, Marilyn Minter, Rebecca Morris, Aliza Nisenbaum, Catherine Opie, Silke Otto-Knapp, Raymond Pettibon, Jack Pierson, Daniel Richter, Sable Elyse Smith, Wolfgang Tillmans, Gillian Wearing, James Welling, Alberta Whittle, Sue Williams, and Andrea Zittel.
Dates:
December 4 – 8, 2024
Address:
Miami Beach Convention Center
1901 Convention Center Drive
Miami Beach, FL 33139
Booth:
E23
Click here to preview the full Matthew Barney SECONDARY presentation.
Exclusively for Art Basel Miami 2024, Matthew Barney presents a series of unique new sculptures that expand his acclaimed recent project SECONDARY. Barney’s five new Wall Racks are presented alongside drawings from the SECONDARY project, evoking the athletic training space and the physical limits of the body. Working primarily in ceramic, Barney is able to evoke both the sensation of strength and fragility, while memorialising and pathologizing the traumatic impact that is the driver of SECONDARY's narrative.
In this body of work, Barney employs a series of formal tactics that examine the intersection between repetitive physical movement and the iterative artistic gesture. Exploring athletic equipment and team uniforms as evocations for the figure, the artist’s new sculptures examine both failure and resilience within the body. Barney exploits the varying natural qualities of his materials as a metaphor for recovery and collapse. The ceramic plates appear to be caving-in under their own weight, cracking and folding, countering the object’s association with durability. Within this state of duress is a collision of materials—from the entangled jerseys to the fusion of different clay tones. The simultaneous vigor and vulnerability of this action amplifies the connection between physical endurance and breakdown that Barney continues to explore in his wider drawing, painting and film practice.