Pierre Huyghe | “Anlee”
EXCLUSIVE: Pierre Huyghe’s videos One Million Kingdoms (2001) and Two Minutes Out of Time (2000), part of the collaborative project No Ghost Just a Shell (1999-2003) with Philippe Parreno.
Pierre Huyghe’s films, installations, and public events range from a small-town parade to a puppet theater, from a model amusement park to a wildlife expedition in Antarctica. Revealing the experience of fiction to be as palpable as anything in daily life, Huyghe’s playful work often addresses complex social topics such as the yearning for utopia, the lure of spectacle in mass media, and the capacity of cinema to shape memory.
SEE: More images, videos, and news for Pierre Huyghe.
LEARN: Pierre Huyghe is featured in the Season 4 (2007) episode Romance of the Art:21—Art in the Twenty-First Century television series on PBS.
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PHOTO | Pierre Huyghe, No Ghost Just a Shell (collaboration with Philippe Parreno), 1999-2003. (Left) One Million Kingdoms, video still, 2001; (Right) Anlee, original image, 1999. © Pierre Huyghe, courtesy Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris/New York.
VIDEO | Producer: Susan Sollins, Charles Atlas & Nick Ravich. Camera: Martial Barrault. Sound: Gilles Metivier. Editor: Mark Sutton. Artwork courtesy: Pierre Huyghe. Thanks: Marian Goodman Gallery.
Sound and Vision: A Night with Barry McGee, Japanther, and PAPER RAD
A full roster of public programs accompany Life on Mars, the Carnegie International 2008. On Thursday, July 24th Douglas Fogle, curator of the 55th Carnegie International, will host a conversation with Art21 artist Barry McGee (Season 1). McGee will discuss his work as well as artists’ response to the phrase “life on Mars.” For the exhibition, McGee has transformed an ordinary hallway with his mixed-media installation using bold colors and dynamic geometric shapes. Following the talk will be performances by Japanther, Extreme Animals [Paper Rad], and Centipede E’est with DJs Cutups and Edgar Um in the Sculpture Court. This event titled Sound and Vision will not disappoint.
Mark Bradford at Artpace
Artpace annually invites nine artists to conceive and create new art projects as part of their International Artist-in-Residence program in San Antonio, TX. Each residency is for a period of two months and composed of one artist from Texas, one from elsewhere in the United States, and one from abroad.
An exhibition of works by the program’s most recent residents–Mark Bradford (Season 4), William Cordova and Marcos Ramirez ERRE–opens July 10. Curated by Lauri Firstenberg, the exhibition is titled New Works: 08.2. A dialogue with Bradford, Cordova and ERRE will take place during the opening reception.
Previous participants of the Artpace residency include Art21 artists Shahzia Sikander (Season 1), Do-Ho Suh, Paul Pfeiffer, Kara Walker (all Season 2) and Arturo Herrera (Season 3).
Day 9 - Art21 Online Fundraising Drive
We’d like to welcome the 58 first-time donors who have donated to Art21 during the last 9 days! Thank you for offering your support of Art21.
There are still 30 hours left to join this group of new supporters during Art21’s first online fundraising drive.
Donations to the Art21 are 100% tax deductible and help our small, independent organization produce a variety of media-based programs and educational resources: from our Peabody-award winning TV series Art:21–Art in the Twenty-First Century and the Art21 Educators’ Guide that accompanies each season, to new exclusive online videos, such as today’s feature with Season 1 artist Mel Chin.
We hope you will join in helping to sustain our programs. Donate $10 or more at Art21.org/donate or via the Art21 Facebook Cause by 11:59 pm on June 20, 2008 and be entered in the raffle to win Art21 DVDs and books. Read the original post for details.
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Berliner Salon: Shilpa Gupta at BodhiBerlin and Galerie Volker Diehl
The buzz in Berlin right now is around Indian media artist Shilpa Gupta’s first exhibition(s) in Germany, with concurrent shows opening tonight at two local galleries. BodhiBerlin, the recently-opened, first European branch of the contemporary Indian art gallery Bodhi Art (which also has spaces in Mumbai, Singapore and New York), and Galerie Volker Diehl (which recently opened a Russian outpost) have consciously bridged Berlin’s urban divide to “allow both Berliners and an international audience further access to [Gupta’s] particular use of regional and political geography in which she tackles issues that include notions of borders within and in-between media, religion and nations,” according to the press release.
BlindStars StarsBlind, as the exhibitions are titled, will incorporate Gupta’s signature interactive mediums, as well as more static works such as photography, all dealing with topical political issues concerning widespread terror tactics and suppression, as inflicted by both external and internal societal factions and through international media platforms. Her critique of man-made boundaries erected through geopolitics and religious fundamentalism is a particularly loaded concept for this unusual collaboration between BodhiBerlin and Volker Diehl, the latter being the first Western art dealer to establish a gallery in Moscow, appropriately titled Diehl + Gallery One, which opened in April with an exhibition by Art21 Season 4 artist Jenny Holzer that closes tomorrow.
BlindStars StarsBlind runs through August 2nd at both Galerie Volker Diehl and BodhiBerlin. For more information about Shilpa Gupta’s exhibition and accompanying monograph, click here. Schoenes Wochenende.
