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In his new project, Streamside Day Follies, French artist Pierre Huyghe continues to explore the formative role of ideological and semiotic systems in establishing social rituals and traditions. Huyghe's exhibition includes five murals, concealed behind five supplementary walls, which are revealed when the walls begin to slowly move through the gallery to configure a pavilion in which a short fiction film is projected. When the film ends, the walls retract to their original positions along the perimeter of the space, restoring the gallery to its pristine condition.
After opening with scenes from an Edenic landscape, Huyghe's film traces the formation of a burgeoning community hypothetically located in the Hudson Valley. A young family is seen relocating to the new housing development. The first of two sections limns a mythic kernel that is then instantiated in scenes from a typical inaugural celebration devised to forge communal identity. Orchestrated by the artist for the nascent residential development that served as the prototype for his fictional construct, the celebration boasted a costume parade, a feast, music and other activities. Huyghe's multifaceted project employs a diverse range of cultural representations garnered from a myriad of references including nineteenth-century utopian social projects, Hollywood films, Disney animation, contemporary fiction writing, and romantic landscape painting.
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| Checklist of Works |
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Streamside Day Follies, 2003
Five moving walls; digital video projection from film and video transfers, 26 min., color, sound; five colored pencil drawings
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| Selected Bibliography |
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Pierre Huyghe: Le Château de Turing. Eindhoven: Van Abbemuseum, in association with the 49th Venice Biennial, 2003. Text by David Robbins.
Parkett, no. 66 (January 2003). Texts by Robert Hobbs, Jeremy Millar, Hans Ulrich Obrist; and a conversation with Daniel Buren.
No Ghost Just a Shell. Ed. Pierre Huyghe and Philippe Parreno. Eindhoven: Van Abbemuseum, in association with Kunsthalle Zürich; Institute of Visual Culture, Cambridge; and Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne, 2003. Contributions by Molly Nesbit, Maurizio Lazzarato, Israel Rosenfield, Maurice Pianzola and Kathryn Davis, a.o. and conversations with Hans Ulrich Obrist, Beatrix Ruf, and Jean-Claude Ameisen.
Pierre Huyghe: The Trial. Munich: Kunstverein München, in association with Kunsthalle Zürich; Secession, Vienna; and Le Consortium, Dijon, 2000. Texts by Liam Gillick and Philippe Parreno.
Pierre Huyghe: The Third Memory. Paris: Centre Georges Pompidou, in association with the Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, 2000. Texts by Jean-Charles Masséra and Christine Van Assche.
Pierre Huyghe: Recasting the Roles. Vienna: Secession, 1999. Interview with Jerôme Sans.
Pierre Huyghe: L'Ellipse. Porto: Fundação de Serralves, 1999. Text by Pierre Huyghe.
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| Biography |
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Pierre Huyghe was born in 1962 in Paris, and graduated from the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in 1985. Huyghe has had numerous solo exhibitions at international venues including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (2003), the Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria (2002), the Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin (2002), the Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Amsterdam (2001), the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (2000), and the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (1998). His work has been exhibited in Documenta 11, Kassel (2002), the Istanbul Biennial in 1999, the Carnegie International, Pittsburgh (1999), the Manifesta 2, Luxembourg (1998), the 2nd Johannesburg Biennial (1997) and the Biennale d'Art Contemporain de Lyon (1995). In 2001 Huyghe represented France at the Venice Biennale, and in 2002 he received the Hugo Boss Prize from the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. He lives and works in Paris.
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This exhibition is sponsored by Dior Homme.
Additional support is provided by Étant donnés and Marian Goodman Gallery, with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a State Agency.
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