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This exhibit features a multidisciplinary project by Pierre Huyghe that explores Le Corbusier??s vision for the Carpenter Center for Visual Arts. Components include a puppet opera, a temporary architectural extension and a video work based on the puppet opera, which will run continuously in the Sert Gallery. Sponsored in part by the Harvard University Art Museums, VES and GSD. Free and open to the public through April 17th at the Carpenter Center’s Sert Gallery...
This exhibit features a multidisciplinary project by Pierre Huyghe that explores Le Corbusier??s vision for the Carpenter Center for Visual Arts. Components include a puppet opera, a temporary architectural extension, and a video work based on the puppet opera, which will run continuously in the Sert Gallery. Sponsored by the Harvard University Art Museums, VES, and GSD. Free and open to the public through April 17 at the Carpenter Center Sert Gallery...
...schoolhouse-style history lesson sans the rhyming cartoons: the Carpenter Center, designed to be an artwork unto itself, is the brainchild of Swiss-French architect Le Corbusier??a self-created title meaning “the rooster” in French. Josep Sert, Spanish architect and the Design School dean at the time, commissioned Le Corbusier (affectionately called ‘Corbu’) to create the Carpenter Center despite reluctance from the Harvard administration. An international meeting of artistic minds, to say the least...
Here at Harvard, Huyghe links contemporary events with those nearly half a century ago, filling gaps in the storyline by collapsing them onto and into themselves. While on the surface a puppet show, the film becomes a nuanced investigation into the artistic process, an intriguing consideration of Corbusier??s own thinking about how the building’s forms have evolved and mutated...
Again, the parallels between Huyghe’s project and Corbusier??s experience at Harvard are germane. The result of a good deal of friction between architect and institution, the Carpenter Center, along with several of Sert’s own projects such as the Science Center and Peabody Terrace, ruffled enough conservative feathers that the University has since become less willing to engage in high-profile commissions involving cutting-edge architecture. In Huyghe’s film, playing opposite to the cherubic features of and jointed arms of Corbusier and Huyghe’s marionette likenesses...