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Matthew Barney & Elizabeth Peyton: Blood of Two
Matthew Barney Elizabeth Peyton Blood of Two Author:Angus Cook, Matthew Barney, Elizabeth Peyton In June 2009, the Deste Foundation in Greece opened an impressive new project space: a converted slaughterhouse located on the island of Hydra, in the Aegean Sea. Inaugurating the space, Matthew Barney and Elizabeth Peyton collaborated on Blood of Two, a site-specific installation composed of bronze sculptures, drawings and paintings--muc... more »h of which was themed around food and flesh--and devised a performative presentation of the collaboration by housing several of their works in an airtight vitrine that was immersed 30 feet in the sea, and then ceremonially raised by divers and borne to the project space during a twilight procession-cum-installation attended by hundreds of islanders. This elegantly produced artist's book records Barney and Peyton's myth-laden collaboration, with documentary photographs of the works and their on-site facture, the island, the procession and installation, plus commentary by Angus Cook.« less