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Le Corbusier revisited by Pierre Huyghe
For French artist Pierre Huyghe, art is a narration that translated into films and installations touches on a wide range of subjects which are all integral parts of his background in science fiction, theme parks and animated films. Modern architecture has also always been one of his reference points and it is precisely this that has inspired his latest creation, a homage to Le Corbusier that has taken more than two years to complete.
The installation, created inside the only American work by Le Corbusier, the Carpenter Center for Visual Arts at Harvard, also offers a chance to celebrate the fortieth anniversary of the building by exploring the relationship between its past and present. Huyghe has set up a bizarre 20-minute puppet show that describes the designing, commissioning and construction phases, while characters such as Le Corbusier and other protagonists of the time mix with contemporary figures that include the artist himself. E.S.
Until 17.4.2005 Huyghe + Corbusier: Harvard Project Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge T +1-617-4959400 http://www.artmuseums.harvard.edu
