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...these elements together and you have the puppet opera created by French artist Pierre Huyghe (pronounced hweeg) celebrating the 40th anniversary of the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts...
...this evening in the Carpenter Center’s theater, the project’s two curators, artist Pierre Huyghe, along with Corbusier’s little bird will all watch the screen as their marionette representations, now enlarged into life-size projections, move across the screen. Behind the puppets sits a scale model of the Carpenter Center—a set-piece and puppet at once—the whole event having been filmed within the building in which it is being screened...
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...
...marionettes) and the class transgressions present Huyghe’s previous projects—employing forms that include adult Japanese graphic novels, fireworks, Walt Disney characters and figure skating in the service of high art—it is inevitable that snide references will be made to the other puppet-movie now playing in Harvard Square, the satirical Team America: World Police. Because Huyghe’s context is not just the academy, but no less Harvard, his challenge may be greater: as Princeton Professor Cornel R. West ’74 and University President Lawrence H. Summers well know...
...passage of time, Huyghe’s project provides the opportunity to look anew at the Carpenter Center’s position in the university—especially in terms of its role as the focus and birthplace for the instruction of the visual arts. In his filmed puppet show, Huyghe makes what may be one of the strongest statements in his presentation of a modern allegory of the artist and his institutional patron, bound by the strings of inflexible bureaucracy...