2003.24.2, Matthew Barney, CREMASTER 3: Hiram Abiff, 2002, c print

American sculptor Richard Serra appears here as the older master architect of the Chrysler building whom the apprentice architect, played by Barney himself in his film Cremaster 3, must conquer in order to achieve his own identity. Serra stands in front of a tool-like set of columns, a reference to two pillars designed by Hiram Abiff, the mythic architect of Solomon's Temple, who possessed knowledge of the mysteries of the universe. The murder and resurrection of Abiff are reenacted during Masonic initiation rites. Of his work with Barney, Serra said, “What’s interesting is how he’s been able to involve people in his work, his ability to have people who are non-performers enter into his intensity and become an extension of his imagination.”

Anna Katherine Brodbeck, ed., TWO X TWO X TWENTY: Two Decades Supporting Contemporary Art at the Dallas Museum of Art (Dallas: Dallas Museum of Art), 2018, 52.

Until 2003: Gladstone Gallery, New York, New York [1]

From 2003: Dallas Museum of Art, purchased from above 

[1] See copy of check #10574 in Collections Records Object File 2003.24.2

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