Pierre Huyghe
dal 26/9/2002 al 24/11/2002
Segnalato da
26/9/2002
Pierre Huyghe
Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz
A completely new series of works which include and utilize the con-text and the conditioning architectural-technical factors of the house. Under the title 'L'expedition scintillante' (The Sparkling Expedition), there arise spatial stagings which consist of ice, water, fog, snow, film, photo, music and colored light and which are joined, in front of the background of a fictional trip to Antarctica, into a com-plex unity.
L'expedition scintillante
A musical
For the Kunsthaus Bregenz, Pierre Huyghe - just as before him Daniel Buren,
Olafur Eliasson and Douglas Gordon - has developed a completely new series
of works which include and utilize the con-text and the conditioning
architectural-technical factors of the house. Under the title "L'expédition
scintillante" (The Sparkling Expedition), there arise spatial stagings which
consist of ice, water, fog, snow, film, photo, music and colored light and which
are joined, in front of the background of a fictional trip to Antarctica, into a
com-plex unity.
Huyghe has set up the trip in the form of a musical, so that each floor of the
Kunsthaus corresponds not only to a stage of this expe-dition but also at the
same time to the act of a musical. Similarly to a large time machine or a
jukebox, the building is programmed in such a way that light and music, but
also artificially produced rain, snow and fog, follow a precise filmscript and
impart rhythm to the room.
On the first storey, at the beginning of the expedition or respec-tively
the musical, there lies a large ship made of ice whose melting process will be
documented in photographs and which, a few days after the opening, will only
be capable of being experienced in the
form of pictures. Snow, rain and fog fall out of the openings of the
glass ceiling into the exhibition room and simulate real occurrences of nature.
At the same time there may be viewed a video which shows segments from
various films that have distinctively influenced our image of adventurous
journeys and research expeditions.
In the middle of the second storey is located a light-box that reminds one of a
concert situation or a machine for establishing contact, similar to the one with
whose help the extraterrestrials in Steven Spielberg's "Close Encounters of the
Third Kind" send mys-terious sound-and light-signals to the Earth.
On the third storey, a black surface made of ice and a book - a program for a
musical in three acts - form the conclusion of the imaginative journey. The
black surface consisting of ice serves in the shadowed exhibition room as a
sort of negative, a projection surface for a musical for which the accompanying
program provides the specifications.
Opening 27 I 09 I 0 8 p.m.
Opening Hours
Tuesday - Sunday 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.
Thursday 10 a.m.- 9 p.m.
Closed on Monday
Kunsthaus Bregenz
Karl Tizian Platz
Postfach 371
A-6900 Bregenz
T ++43 5574 48594-0
F ++43 5574 48594-8