Returning to his roots

© Matthew Barney. Photo: Hugo Glendinning.

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Thirty years after graduating from Yale, artist Matthew Barney ’89 is back on campus, with his first major exhibition at the university. Matthew Barney: Redoubt, is on view at the Art Gallery through June 16. Barney is as much a filmmaker as a sculptor; his five-part Cremaster film series is his best-known work. Redoubt is anchored by a feature-length, wordless film inspired by the myth of Diana and depicting a wolf hunt in the Sawtooth Mountains of Idaho. (That’s a still from the film at left.) The exhibition includes large sculptures cast from trees and electroplated copper engravings related to the film. If you miss it in New Haven, the exhibition travels to Beijing in September and to London next March.