Blood of Two, 2009
Matthew Barney and Elizabeth Peyton
Blood of Two, 2009
Mixed-media installation, bronze, glass, framed drawings and paintings, colour video
Dimensions variable
Private collection
Biography
In recent years, Elizabeth Peyton has worked increasingly in the field of still-life painting and drawing, producing works inspired by literature and the process of reading.
Peyton’s solo exhibitions include an exhibition of drawings and monotypes at the Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden, Germany (2013); Ghost, a retrospective of prints, at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, USA, and Opelvillen, Rüsselsheim, Germany (2011); the survey Live Forever at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA; New Museum, New York; Whitechapel Gallery, London; and Bonnefanten Museum, Maastricht, the Netherlands (2009–10) and Reading and Writing, which brought together many literature-related works, at the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (2009).
This person was part of Sharjah Biennial 11
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Blood of Two
This installation includes a video that documents a collaborative performance by Matthew Barney and Elizabeth Peyton at DESTE Foundation Project Space on the island of Hydra, Greece, in 2009, as well as elements that were first exhibited there.
Sharjah Biennial 11: Re:emerge – Towards a New Cultural Cartography
This catalogue accompanied Sharjah Biennial 11.