The protagonist of an exhibition at the Guggenheim in New York (until 4 May) is the French artist Pierre Huyghe, born in 1962 and winner in October of the fourth edition of the Hugo Boss award. In a continual exploration of the convergence between reality and fiction, memory and history, Huyghe incorporates a number of different media into his work – video, sound, animation, sculpture and architecture.

In New York he will be showing two of his most recent works, the sculpture “L'Expédition Scintillante, Act II: Untitled (light show)” (2002) - a giant musical box from which emerge lights and smoke to the music of Satie – and the installation “Les Grands Ensembles” (1994-2001), created for the last Venice Biennale – a pair of dreary seventies council flats immersed in a desert of fog evoking a setting which is at the same time both romantic and alienating.

“These subsidized public projects ended up being an architectural and social failure”, explains Huyghe. “They were a corruption of Le Corbusier's social and architectural Modernist theory. Without beginning or ending, the two low-income towers dialogue in a strange Morse code given by the light of their respective windows, a blinking existence”.

until 4.5.2003
Pierre Huyghe
Guggenheim Museum
1071 Fifth Avenue, New York
T +1-212-4233500
https://www.guggenheim.org