Art Alert

Possibly the best contemporary art exhibition i've seen so far in Paris, Pierre Huyghe at the Centre Pompidou was interesting, arresting, and elusive. There were many elements which all seemed to buzz around one another, including a statue with a head of live bees, a snow making machine, a live dog with a leg painted pink and several video elements including a rather hypnotic puppet show. It all sounds strange, but it made an odd kind of sense when you walked through it. Definitely worth looking at again. Here are a few of the elements... an interactive ceiling of light

The panel light ceiling was interactive and could be operated by two people at once. The exhibition layout at times made you feel you were in some large habitat.....

This dog had one pink leg and there were fur coats at various locations throughout the gallery. An attendant would come and walk the dog to the next fur coat....

This bronze life size nude's head was entirely covered by bees. Live bees. in this room there was also a machine on the ceiling that alternately generated snow and water like rain....

There were several aquariums containing fish or these weird spidery things and some Brancusi sculpture.

And through a cut out in the wall you could watch a film of this strange puppet show that was oddly hypnotic and creepy

here's my favorite sentence from the translated exhibition handout...." Moreover, the exhibition highlights the filiations between works, sometimes seperated by as much as a decade: adolescents wearing the heads of animals for LA TOISON D"OR in a park in Dijon hence relate to the procession in STREAMSIDE DAY or even to HUMAN, the dog with the pink leg.

There was definitely some filiation going on. and thats what made it interesting.