Pierre Huyghe -- Les Grands Ensembles

this video is long, but things happen...... slowly, but compressed in time.... to me its tranquility's perfection.....

Les Grands Ensembles, 2001, Vistavision transferred into digital hard disc, 7'41", looped



les grands ensembles
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imagine sitting on a bench, just watching......

http://www.pierrehuyghe.com/

I saw this video here: http://www.guggenheim.org/new-york/press-room/press-releases/press-release-archive/2002/659-october-16-hugo-boss-prize-2002-recipient-pierre-huyghe-




Pierre Huyghe was born in 1962 in Paris, where he currently lives and works. The artist graduated form the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, in 1985. Huyghe's work, which has taken the form of video and installations in recent years, often uses film as a departure for his investigations of fiction versus fact. His work has been presented in numerous solo exhibitions including shows at the Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz, Austria (2002); Musée d' Art Moderne et Contemporain, Geneva (2001); the Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Amsterdam (2001); Musée d'Art Contemporain, Montreal (2000–2001); Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, and the Renaissance Society, University of Chicago (2000); Aarhus Kunstmueum, Denmark (1999); Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (1998).



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