Ariane Lopez-Huici
Ariane Lopez-Huici (* 1945 in Biarritz , France ) is a French-American photographer .
life and work
Ariane Lopez-Huici was born in Biarritz in 1945 as the daughter of Eugenio Lopez-Huici and Evelyne Belly . Her great-aunt Eugenia Huici de Errázuriz (1860–1951) was a patron of art, a friend of Igor Stravinsky and Pablo Picasso , of whom she was the model . A. Lopez-Huici studied from 1965 at the Pietro Vannucci Fine Arts Academy in Perugia and the Arts School of the Museum Nissim de Camondo in Paris. In 1970 she became an assistant to the Brazilian filmmaker Nelson Pereira dos Santos , one of the pioneers of Cinema Novo . She learned to master the art of lighting and photographic techniques through him. She takes photos with a 35mm camera. Her first photo exhibition was in 1977 at Dartmouth College . In 1980 she moved to New York with her husband, the sculptor Alain Kirili , whom she married in 1977 .
Her work focuses on the human body. By choosing her models, she exceeds the limits of the prevailing beauty conventions. Lopez-Huici uses black and white photography with deep black areas and pronounced grain. In the series Aviva , Dalila and Holly she shows her fondness for fleshy bodies. Her African series Adama & Omar and Kenekoubo Ogoïre shows her love for physical expression. Rebelles and Triumph work with a group of voluminous women who can hold their own. Her latest series, Priscille , from 2009 to 2010, with a disabled model, follows the tradition of Auguste Rodin , who believed that he found true beauty and personality in fragments of the body.
"(...) I'm often asked why I choose the type of model I do. Why these? My body type is small and slender, whereas Aviva, Dalila, and Holly are Rubenesque. For me, at least, there's a large element of the unknown in the act of creating. If I really knew the answer I wouldn't photograph them. My choice of models depends on a variety of circumstances: how we meet, our desires, possibilities that attract and intrigue, the transgression of normative boundaries, the confidence one creates in order to persuade someone to pose. What I photograph is the irreducible mystery of my models. (...) "
Exhibitions (selection)
Solo exhibitions
- 2012 New York University in France , Paris 2012
- 2007 New York Studio School , New York
- 2004 Institut Valencià d'Art Modern , Valencia, Spain
- 2004 Musée de Grenoble , France
- 2002 Ecole d'arts Plastiques, Chatellerault France
- 1996 AC Project Room New York
- 1988 St. Peter Art Station (Cologne) , Cologne
- 1983 Photography Center , Los Angeles
- 1982 MoMA PS1 , Queens , New York
Group exhibitions
- 2012 Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art : Feminist Art Base: Ariane Lopez-Huici, Brooklyn Museum , New York
- 2001 Voluptés, curated by Elga Wimmer, Borusan , Istanbul
- 2000 Foire internationale d'art contemporain , France
- 1996 The red gate curated by Jan Hoet , Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst , Gent , Belgium
Web links
- Website Ariane Lopez-Huici
- Donald Kuspit in artnet: Thin slicing reality
Individual evidence
- ↑ John Wood: Ariane Lopez-Huici: MonumentalBeauty (PDF; 157 kB) accessed on May 11, 2013
- ↑ http://www.kirili.com/lopezhuici/pages%20E/E_Statement.htm
- ↑ Yann Kersale: Art & No1,2012 (PDF; 1.5 MB) accessed on May 11, 2013
- ^ Art of the Day , accessed May 11, 2013.
- ↑ Elizabeth A. Sackler: Brooklyn Museum: Center for Feminist Art: Feminist Art Base: Ariane Lopez-Huici , accessed May 11, 2013.
- ↑ Brooklyn Museum , accessed May 11, 2013.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lopez-Huici, Ariane |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French-American photographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1945 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Biarritz |