Pierre Huyghe

Presenting fifty projects from French-born, New York&#150;based contemporary artist Pierre Huyghe&#8217;s twenty-year career, this richly illustrated book provides an overview of his work across film, installation art, and live event. Since the 1990s, Huyghe&#8217;s work has challenged the status of the exhibition format. With projects like the <I>One Year Celebration</I> and the foundation in 1995 of the collaborative Association of Freed Time, Huyghe developed a particular interest in the relationship between time and memory&#151;an interest that has carried through to his works, <I>Untilled</I> and the three-part <I>The Host and the Cloud.</I> Most recently, his projects include an untitled piece for the Documenta 13 in Kassel, Germany; Amidst Karlsaue Park&#8217;s compost heap&#151;an area detached from museums and cultural institutions and not intended to be seen&#151;Huyghe installed common park objects from different moments in art history, as well as the Documenta in years past, from one of Joseph Beuys&#8217;s uprooted oaks to Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster&#8217;s pink bench.<BR> &#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;<BR> Published to accompany a major exhibition of Huyghe&#8217;s work opening at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in November 2014, this book offers the first comprehensive overview of the artist&#8217;s career. The structure of the book brings to light Huyghe&#8217;s creative process, with each step in the creation of featured projects amply illustrated with photographs, drawings, and preparatory sketches. — Testi: Lavigne Emma. pagg. 256; rileg. brossura. Editore: Hirmer Verlag, München, 2014.