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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...
...that has taken shape between the Carpenter Center’s pilotis. A 20-minute film version of that production—complete with Hollywood-style special effects—will be screened in the auditorium during the opening night. It will then continue its run in the upstairs Sert Gallery until April 17 of next year. A multifaceted and unusual project, Huyghe’s film is the result of a similarly complex and atypical interfaculty collaboration involving the Harvard University Art Museums, Graduate School of Design, and the Visual and Environmental Studies department...
When the University’s 1957-8 Committee on the Practice of the Visual Arts recommended to President Nathan Pusey that Harvard launch a formal program in the arts, then-Dean of the Graduate School of Design, Josép Lluis Sert (also reincarnated as puppet) recommended Le Corbusier for the job. The building, built to house the nascent VES department, was to become a laboratory for creativity and a catalyst for the understanding of art at Harvard. The Carpenter Center as synthèse des arts was a utopian challenge for Corbusier, whose recent and no less idealistic...