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NY Lab Green Rhino Prints CREMASTER Exhibition Images on Chromira
CREMASTER CYCLE ON DISPLAY AT SOLOMON R. GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM

New York, NY / Carpinteria, CA, USA - Green Rhino, a fine-art photographic lab in New York, has announced the display of Matthew Barney: The CREMASTER Cycle at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York through June 11, 2003. The opening of The CREMASTER Cycle at the Guggenheim follows a critically-acclaimed tour in Europe and is the first to fully integrate all components of the five-part system, which includes film, photographs, drawings, and sculptures. Green Rhino developed the photographic images displayed in the CREMASTER Cycle exhibition.

Matthew Barney's award-winning CREMASTER Cycle was a project 10 years in the making. It symbolically examines the biological processes of creation and sexual differentiation in embryonic development. The cycle consists of a series of five films supplemented by dozens of photographs, drawings, and sculptures. ¹

Green Rhino has worked with Matthew Barney throughout the CREMASTER Cycle's creation process. Of the 300 photographs developed by Green Rhino for the series, 80 were chosen for display at the Guggenheim's CREMASTER Cycle exhibition. Framed in self-lubricating plastic and often mirroring classical portraiture 1, Green Rhino's owner Anthony Accardi calls the prints "amazingly beautiful". Earlier prints in the cycle, representing approximately 75-80% of the collection, were printed traditionally with an enlarger, while later prints reflect Green Rhino's move to digital. These prints, 20-25% of the CREMASTER Cycle photographs, were imaged on the lab's Chromira 50 digital printer. The photographs range in size from 20" x 24" to 40" x 50".

Green Rhino, located in New York, NY, opened in 1989 as a custom photo lab. In the last 15 years, the lab has become known for its work in the fine-art photographic industry, printing high-end images for magazines and artists. Says owner Anthony Accardi, "We don't aim to be the biggest or the most popular lab around. Our goal is only to be the best."

ZBE, Incorporated is headquartered in Santa Barbara, CA, USA and has been serving professional imaging needs since 1980. The Chromira printing system applies ZBE's highly efficient on-the-fly imaging methodology, which images on photographic media while simultaneously processing the digital image data. This proprietary system produces Chromira's extraordinary on-the-fly workflow productivity.

For further information on the Guggenheim exhibit of Matthew Barney: The CREMASTER Cycle, please visit the Guggenheim web site at www.guggenheim.org/exhibitions/barney or to learn more about the Cremaster web site at www.cremaster.net.

¹ Guggenheim Museum, http://www.guggenheim.org/exhibitions/barney/introduction/index.html