BASEL.- This year Schaulager is presenting Matthew Barney’s Drawing Restraint project. Drawing Restraint is a series of performances, numbering sixteen to date, in which Barney attempts to make graphic marks despite self-imposed physical and psychological hindrances. In the exhibition, works arising from Barney’s performances, such as sculptures, vitrines, drawings and videos, will be juxtaposed with artworks from the northern renaissance. Schaulager’s supporting body, the Laurenz Foundation, has acquired Matthew Barney’s archive of the performance series together with the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Thanks to this joint acquisition the Drawing Restraint Archive can now be shown to the public in its entirety for the first time. Born in 1967, Matthew Barney is one of the most versatile artists of his generation, known above all for his ambitious film and performance cycles Cremaster and Drawing Restrain