Today’s artist I like: Pierre Huyghe.
In reference to the previous post in which I implied that I don’t really like most video art, I wanted to counter that with the following example: Pierre Huyghe. This French artist makes long, narrative video art that is as engaging as it is intellectually complex. I saw a show of several video by the artist in Reykjavik several years ago and have never quite recovered from how enthralled I was. The video, entitled, “This is Not a Time for Dreaming” follows a puppet of Le Corbusier as he tries to design Harvard’s Carpenter Center. Later there is a puppet of Huyghe, controlling puppet LC, and the whirlwind of music and interprative puppet dance all makes for one magical video (see below). Constant throughout Huyghe’s work is an interplay between the real, the imagined, the imagined, purporting itself to be real.
You can read more about his other videos in this rundown by super-critic Nicolas Baurriaud here:
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