Vintage Posters

1992. Poster for Matthew Barney art exhibition. Ottoshaft is one of a trilogy of works by Matthew Barney called the Jim Otto Suite, named after Jim Otto, an American football player of the 1970s. While fully self-contained, Ottoshaft is the middle section occurring at ‘half time’ in the trilogy. Although Ottoshaft was already planned when the other two parts were shown in 1991, it was made later, in the summer of 1992. The Jim Otto Suite constitutes an extended narrative based on the character and physiology of Jim Otto. It began with an exhibition in Los Angeles (with Otto playing in white ‘away’ strip) and was completed in a New York gallery (with Otto wearing the black ‘home’ strip in Barney’s home town).