Michael Kimmelman: Self
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Michael Kimmelman : Matthew Barney calls himself a sculptor, not a filmmaker. His Cremaster Cycle is a kind of autobiography. It's extravagance and opulence speak for themselves. The original metaphor was biological, the male cremaster muscle controls testicular contractions and Barney cryptically talked about the work as tracking a state of sexual indifferentiation that finally resolves itself at the end of the cycle. But the metaphor changed as the cycle evolved into a larger meditation on the creative process in its need to remain open-ended.
