Publisher: Cultural Arts Publishing House

Publication Date: 2019

Authors: Pamela Franks, Elisabeth Hodermarsky, Andre Lepecki, Arthur Middleton, Molly Nesbit, Gifford Pinchot, Jennifer Raab, John Rember

Binding: Paperback, 356 pages

Language: Chinese

ISBN: 9787503967801

Accompanying “Matthew Barney: Redoubt,” the artist’s first solo exhibition in China, UCCA and Beijing’s Culture and Art Publishing House published a Chinese version of the eponymous exhibition catalogue. This catalogue is a comprehensive representation of the project, using hundreds of stills and documentary photographs to track the film’s narrative. It also features lush images of the engravings, electroplated copper plates, and tree sculptures related to the project, as well as other images that inspired Redoubt. The volume is organized into six chapters mirroring the “hunt” structure of the film. Included are an introduction, a historical essay originally published in National Geographic in 1899 that discusses the relationship among forests, forest fires, and regrowth, and six essays—some lyrical, others more objective—that approach Redoubt through the disciplinary lenses of art history, ecology, and dance theory.Taking a cue from Redoubt’s mountainous setting, the overall design of the book evokes a field guide.