This exhibition celebrates the diverse creative journey of Lebanese artist Huguette Caland (1931-2019). Explore her prolific career, spanning various mediums and contexts, from Beirut to Paris and California. The accompanying catalogue features insightful essays, artist texts, and numerous reproductions of her work.
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This exhibition retrospective explores the diverse creative trajectory of Lebanese artist Huguette Caland through essays, artist texts, and reproductions of her work. The catalogue covers her artistic evolution across different media and contexts, from Beirut to Paris and California.
The exhibition catalogue, 'Huguette Caland. A Life in a Few Lines,' delves into the prolific and varied career of the Lebanese artist Huguette Caland (Beirut, 1931-2019). Published in conjunction with a retrospective exhibition, the catalogue includes eight essays and texts by the artist herself, alongside reproductions of numerous works from different periods, some previously unpublished. The publication opens with an extensive essay by the exhibition's curator, Hannah Feldman, offering a panoramic view of Caland's diverse output, which spanned disparate plastic mediums and contexts, and was characterized by a deep commitment to the intertwining of life and art. Subsequent research by six historians examines specific aspects of her career, such as her early creative beginnings in Beirut, the expressive freedom she discovered in Paris, her ventures into fashion design, her formal explorations in Venice, California, and her later reflections on aging and memory. The catalogue concludes with three poems by the artist, presented by her daughter, Brigitte Caland. The texts within the publication are in English.
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