Monday, June 29, 2009

Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (UCCA) presents Isabelle Huppert



UCCA presents Isabelle Huppert: Woman of Many Faces, an ambitious photo show initiated by the Museum of Modern Art / P.S.1, New York, for the first time in China. The exhibition gathers 120 photo and video portraits of French actress Isabelle Huppert created by a multi-generational and international group of leading photographers. For this unique Chinese issue, organized as part of the 'Croisements Festival', the project includes new works by the upcoming generation of Chinese artists such as Yang Fudong, Wen Fang and Shi Xiaofan.

"The idea of having young Chinese photographers giving their very own creative vision of a legendary French star broadens the 'Huppert myth' and gives it an unprecedented resonance in China. We are glad to be the place where the two worlds meet", Jérôme Sans, UCCA Director and co-curator of
Isabelle Huppert: Woman of Many Faces

The works by Henri Cartier-Bresson, Edouard Boubat, Nan Goldin, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Robert Franck, Philip-Lorca DiCorcia, Roni Horn, Juergen Teller, Helmut Newton, Robert Wilson and many others are inspired by Isabelle Huppert's dynamic, challenging and powerful presence in her movie roles and act as a tribute to her prolific, thirty-year acting career. 

Isabelle Huppert: Woman of Many Faces has already been presented in over seven important institutions, including the Musée d'art Moderne/Couvent des Cordeliers in Paris, the Galerie C/O in Berlin, the Gallery of the Botanical Garden in Madrid, the Gemeentemuseum of Den Haag in The Netherlands and the Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo. 

The 250,000 plus visitors who have visited the show so far confirm the public's interest in this exhibition, which can be further described as a 'history of the photographic portrait in the last decades of the 20th Century'. 

This exhibition is organized as part of the ''Croisements Festival'' with the support of the French Embassy in Beijing. It is produced by Joany Edition. 

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