Pierre Huyghe

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Pierre Huyghe
Born (1962-09-11) 11 September 1962 (age 61)
Contemporary Art
AwardsDAAD in Berlin, the Hugo Boss Prize, the Smithsonian Museum’s Contemporary Artist Award and the Roswitha Haftmann Prize.

Pierre Huyghe (born 11 September 1962) is a French artist who works in a variety of media from films and sculptures to public interventions and living systems.

Education

Pierre Huyghe (pronounced hweeg)[1] was born in Paris in 1962. He lives and works in Paris and New York. He studied at the École nationale supérieure des Arts décoratifs in Paris.

Exhibitions

Huyghe participated in the Okayama Summit in 2016, and was the event's artistic director in 2019. In an interview in Ocula Magazine with Stephanie Bailey, Huyghe explained that he chose 'artists who construct worlds that have the capacity to endlessly change, rather than as makers of things'[2] — a quality that translates to his own practice.

Recognition

Huyghe has received a number of awards, including the Nasher Prize (2017), Kurt Schwitters Prize (2015); Roswitha Haftmann Award (2013), the Smithsonian Museum’s Contemporary Artist Award (2010), the Hugo Boss Prize, Guggenheim Museum (2002), and a DAAD in Berlin (1999–2000).[3]

Work and Themes

Huyghe has been working with time-based situations and site-specific installations since the early 1990s. His works consist of such diverse forms as objects, films, photographs, drawings, music, fictional characters, and full-fledged ecosystems, in effect treating exhibition and its ritual as an object in itself.

Role Playing

In Blanche-Neige, (1997), Huyghe revealed the face and story of Lucie Dolène, the French voiceover artist whom

Pierre Joseph, Mélik Ohanian, Joe Scanlan, and Rirkrit Tiravanija to produce various works utilizing the character Annlee, the sum of which became the traveling group exhibition No Ghost Just A Shell.[7] After several exhibitions, they transferred the character's copyright to the Annlee Association—a legal entity owned by Annlee, thus ensuring her simultaneous freedom and death.[8]

Fiction, Memory, and Place

Huyghe's two-channel video The Third Memory (1999), commissioned by

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, and entailed similar intersections of a fictional place, a film, and live convergence. As a film work, A Journey that Wasn't juxtaposes a sailing expedition from Tierra del Fuego in search of an uncharted island off the coast of Antarctica, with the recording (and re-recording) of its symphonic score at the Wollman ice rink in Central Park. The symphonic score was composed by Joshua Cody and featured guitar soloist Elliott Sharp.[12][13]

The Host and the Cloud (2010) is a feature-length film that was shot entirely within the dormant building that had housed the National Museum of Arts and Popular Traditions, Paris. The rambling, melancholy, somewhat sci-fi narrative is structured around the celebrations of

Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, was accompanied by several of Huyghe's Zoodram sculptures, elaborate aquariums featuring exotic sea creatures that are not unlike the captive human ecosystem depicted in The Host and the Cloud.[14][15] For dOCUMENTA(13) (2012) Pierre Huyghe created Untilled (2011–2012), a compost site within a baroque garden, a non hierarchical association that included a sculpture of a reclining nude with a head obscured by a swarming beehive, aphrodisiac and psychotropic plants, a dog with a pink leg, and an uprooted oak tree from Joseph Beuys’ 7,000 Oaks, among other elements.[16][17] Untilled was ranked third in The Guardian's Best Art of the 21st Century list, with critic Adrian Searle calling it a "wondrous work" and "an elegy for a dying world".[18]

Anthropomorphism

Human Mask (2014) is a film set in post-disaster Fukushima that depicts the listless activity of a trained monkey-servant dressed in the mask of a young woman.[19]

Notes

  1. ^ Christopher Knight (December 6, 2014), Warm spots in Pierre Huyghe's often chilly Conceptualism at LACMA Los Angeles Times.
  2. ^ Bailey, Stephanie (6 December 2019). "Pierre Huyghe: The Artist as Director". Ocula.
  3. Marian Goodman Gallery
    , New York.
  4. ^ "Pierre Huyghe". Archived from the original on 2017-11-15. Retrieved 2017-11-14.
  5. ^ "Dubbing".
  6. ^ Marcia Tanner: No Ghost Just a Shell
  7. ^ Phillip Nobel: Annlee: sign of the times - Japanese anime comes to life, ArtForum, January 2003
  8. ^ Kendra Mayfield: Art Explores Cartoon as Commodity, Wired, December 14, 2002
  9. New York Times
    .
  10. ^ Art Torrents: Pierre Huyghe - The Third Memory and One Million Kingdoms, November 23rd, 2007
  11. ^ "Streamside Day Follies, New Film Project by Artist Pierre Huyghe on View at Dia:chelsea | Press | About | Dia".
  12. ^ "Pierre Huyghe | A Journey That Wasn't".
  13. ^ "A Journey That Wasn't - Public Art Fund".
  14. ^ Smith, Roberta (24 February 2011). "PIERRE HUYGHE: 'The Host and the Cloud'". The New York Times.
  15. ^ "Making Time". 5 September 2011.
  16. ^ "Group Show at Karlsaue Park, Documenta 13, Kassel".
  17. ^ Ludwig Museum http://www.museum-ludwig.de/en/exhibitions/archive/2014/pierre-huyghe.html Archived 2015-03-05 at the Wayback Machine
  18. ^ "The best art of the 21st century". The Guardian. 17 September 2019. Retrieved 17 September 2019.
  19. ^ Higgie, Jennifer (17 December 2014). "One Take: Human Mask". Frieze (168).

References

External links
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