Art21 Extended Play

Pierre Huyghe | “Anlee”

by Wesley Miller | Jul 24, 2008

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.

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.

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.

Contributor
Wesley Miller is the former curator at Art21. Miller co-curated the television series Art in the Twenty-First Century. He is also co-creator of the digital series New York Close Up.

 

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