#huguettecaland

[gabrielle-distin-artist]

A page of sketchbook ideas after looking at the work of Huguette Caland. Ideas for eyes that would be looking out of an old pine doorframe. The last photo is the one that I think work best and will now try out on a larger scale. I’m continuing to use household waste - in this case old newspapers and magazines- to minimise my overall waste and also due to the restrictions of the lockdown.

[barbarapicci]

“#Dress 1 layer B” by #HuguetteCaland More info at: https://barbarapicci.com/2022/03/10/dress-1-layer-b-by-huguette-caland/ #artinstallation #installazione #installation #installationview #exhibitionview #cultureisfreedom #artisfreedom #curiositykilledtheblogger #artblogging #photooftheday #artaddict #artistsoninstagram #amazing #artwork #instacool #instaart #followart #artlover #contemporaryart #artecontemporanea #artmuseum #artcurator #artwatchers #artcollectors #artdealer #arthistory https://www.instagram.com/p/Ca7fQHng-vb/?utm_medium=tumblr

[huguettecaland]

Huguette Caland, Untitled, 1970, oil on linen, 35 x 51 inches (90 x 129 cm)

POLARITIES: September 6 – October 14, 2018

TOTAH presents Polarities, a group exhibition spanning film, photography, sculpture, drawing, and painting, as well as more interstitial media. Polarities features 46 artists, both historical and living.

The idea of the exhibition began with a black and white photograph taken in Detroit by Brandon Ralph. Extending upon the visual themes captured in this work, Polarities overlaps, combines, and gently teases out the dichotomies between black and white scales of coloration, welcoming contrast as much as fulfillment in extremes.

Contributions by Huguette Caland and R.B. Kitaj capture an anarchic grace and socially- liberated performativity. Caland’s Untitled (1970) oil on linen work seems to line up the faces of potential suitors like dresses on a rack. While R.B. Kitaj’s oil on charcoal work Primo (1969) stands out as bridging a long-standing continuity between the concerns of utopian protest from the 1960s and the tenor of political realities experienced today. Contrasting vulnerability and nakedness with the militaristic presence of General Franco, Kitaj’s Primo humorously embarrasses the purported authority of officialdom and power.

Mel Bochner’s painting Obliterate similarly dramatizes the conflict between official representations and the social praxis that would undermine them. The painting features the titular word “obliterate”, drippingly withdrawn from legibility. As a counterpoint to Bochner’s black on black construct, Enrico Castellani’s Superficie Bianca (or “white surface”) signals a withdrawal from the imagistic conventions associated with painting, lingering somewhere between the tactility of sculpture and the formal interests of abstraction. Helen Pashgian’s sphere, meanwhile, marks the first time she has used black dye in this particular body of work since the beginning of her career.

Playing off the idea of antipodal extremes creatively informing each other, Polarities demonstrates not only the overarching thematic of black and white colored schemata, but showcases the unique way in which coloration can become an instrument toward the destabilization of contrasts.

In the screening room, Gordon Matta-Clark’s performance-oriented film Tree Dance (1971) will run throughout the exhibition.

Artists featured in Polarities: Eve Aschheim, David Austen, Robert Baras, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Lisa Beck, Isak Berbic, Mel Bochner, Alighiero Boetti, Eric Brown, Alberto Burri, Huguette Caland, Enrico Castellani, Vija Celmins, Anne Collier, George Condo, Dan Covert, Gino De Dominicis, Adeline de Monseignat, Mara De Luca, Aleksandar Duravcevic, TR Ericsson, Alison Hall, Keith Haring, Adam Henry, Sam Jablon, R.B. Kitaj, David Klamen, Sherrie Levine, Sol Lewitt, Gordon Matta-Clark, Matthew Metzger, Jonathan Owen, Luca Pancrazzi, Helen Pashgian, Pablo Picasso, Nathlie Provosty, Brandon Ralph, Paula Rego, Ad Reinhardt, Robert Ryman, Kenny Scharf, Alex Sewell, Joel Shapiro, Cindy Sherman, Beuford Smith, and Andy Warhol.

For further information please contact info@davidtotah.com

[artbookdap]

Huguette Caland (1933–2019) Images are from ‘Everything Takes the Shape of a Person, 1970–78,’ the first major monograph on the groundbreaking octogenarian Lebanese painter who died this week. In an interview with Hanan al-Shaykh, published in the book, Caland comments, "I never sit down in front of a drawing or a painting and think, 'I'm going to paint something erotic.' Erotic means life, there is no life without some form of eroticism. You can't separate eroticism from life." @skiraeditore #huguettecaland #lebanesepainter https://www.instagram.com/p/B24RnIXpS8G/?igshid=kvvnm1f6nsei

[suzylwade]

Huguette Caland “I didn’t ask permission. No one grants freedom to others. You take it.” - Huguette Caland, Artist. Lebanese artist Huguette Caland has her first UK museum solo exhibition at ‘Tate St Ives��. The octogenarian artist has been prolifically weaving delicate eroticism through her intricate lines on paper and canvas with for more than 40 years, first in her native Beirut, then in France and finally in Venice, California where she lived for more than 20 years before retiring to Lebanon. To write comprehensively of Caland’s work is difficult: she is, arguably, one of the greatest Arab artists to have emerged since the 1970s, yet so little is written about her. However, Caland’s work has the capacity to phenomenologically move the soul in the most unexpected of ways. Often referred to her as the “Gertrude Stein of the L.A. art world,” a force and an anchor, her legacy is absent not only from that city’s artistic history but also from the global canon of feminist art. Caland (b. 1931, Lebanon) began her career in the early 1960s with erotic abstract paintings and body landscapes and continued to explore the body in a free-spirited way throughout the seventies when she had relocated to Paris. There she collaborated with renowned poets and artists such as Adonis, Georges Apostu and Pierre Cardin. Caland eventually moved to Venice, California in 1987, where her work progressed across a wide range of medium, with her most recent canvases reflecting distorted distance and layered memory, with a playful modernist abstraction. Her work is included in private and public collections across the Middle East, Europe and the US. ‘Huguette Caland’ at Tate St Ives, May 24 – September 1, 2019. #neonurchin #neonurchinblog #dedicatedtothethingswelove #suzyurchin #ollyurchin #art #music #photography #fashion #film #words #pictures #neon #urchin #huguettecaland #artist #lines #drawings #clothes #pierrecardin #feminist #modernistabstraction #tatestives #exhibition #tate (at Tate St. Ives) https://www.instagram.com/p/ByznSJUgZ7L/?igshid=18bexuulpakqi

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[byraymondarturo]

New mug in the collection: @sbmuseart • Artwork: Mustafa Acrobate by #HuguetteCaland, 1971 • Summer Play Reading List by #EvelynOrtiz: #TheGlassMenagerie #TheChildrensHour #TwoSmallBodies #AgnesofGod #Proof #AllMySons • #MeanMugging #MugCollector #Mug (at Van Nuys, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bngqz2Fl1c0/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1gp7y7xoyjjzo

[posiviri]

#huguettecaland #biennaledivenezia

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19/7/17 inspiriert von Huguette Caland im Arsenale. #biennaledivenezia #huguettecaland #arsenale #drawing ##venice #venedig #venezia #frenchkiss #tongue #tonguekiss #schlabber (hier: Arsenale Biennale Di Venezia)

[biboloid]

Huguette Caland, Untitled. 2010. #art #contemporaryart #painting #paint #abstractart #instaart #artoftheday #huguettecaland

[gabrielle-distin-artist]

Reference P2, P4, P5, P7 & P8 Again preparing for the exhibition that would have been and finding alternative methods to overcome the challenges of photographing and displaying my work at home. This piece - machine embroidered eyes on soluble fabric attached to two Hijabs would have been on a mannequin and available for visitors of the exhibition to try on and be photographed in. Inspired by the work of @jr @huguettecaland and @kader.attia I developed this piece while looking at how women feel when their communication is restricted by their clothing and continued with it as we all began to feel the restrictions of lockdown. I will now be photographing this work on a model, my youngest daughter (thank you!) and displaying the photographs. If I decide it is feasible to exhibit in my front yard for neighbours and passers by I need to decide on another way to exhibit it. I will be asking my local community for the loan of a dressmakers mannequin. #strodefad #strodecollege #fmp #finalmajorproject #machineembroidery #hijab #hijabi #jr #huguettecaland #kaderattia #strodecollegeartdepartment #covid19 #lockdown #restrictions https://www.instagram.com/p/B_47AUHlkQ2/?igshid=1tobkqtwsf5cl

[lawrencefineart]

Across media, across gender the human body continues to serve as an inspiration for artistic exploration. We were struck by the similarities in the art of French-Lebanese female artist Huguette Calandras and American photographic artist Howard Schstz. Both use the female form as a jumping off point—erotic,yes, but if you think that that is all there is, you’ve missed everything. Here pictured an example from her Bribes de Corps series and his Folds series. What an interesting exhibition this would make. @huguettecaland @howardschatz #artoftheday #contemporaryart #contemporaryphotography #fineartphotography #abstractart #feministart #femaleartist #bodylandscapes #interiordesign https://www.instagram.com/p/B0R5OzPARWg/?igshid=1fan55qygw0he

[huguettecaland]

Huguette Caland at the Arsenale as a part of the 2017 Venice Biennale.

[reneemudd]

L'inspiration! This incredible #caftan designed by artist #HuguetteCaland. Because duh.

via @gretchen_jones

[malado3]

#huguettecaland is amazing! Kisses for everyone. Sending 💛 this holiday season, wherever you are- may you have peace and joy in your life🙏🏻✌🏽✌🏿️✌🏼

[suzylwade]

Huguette Caland Shifting between figuration and abstraction Huguette Caland's large, colourful canvases and detailed drawings from the 1970s and 1980s will offer a delicate balance between the suggestive and the explicit. After moving to Paris from Beirut in 1970, Caland achieved artistic recognition with her exuberant and erotically charged paintings that challenged traditional conventions of beauty and desire. The female physique is a recurrent motif in her work, often painted like landscapes with voids and mountain-like forms. Born in Lebanon in 1931, Caland studied art at the ‘American University of Beirut’ and lived in Paris and California for many years. Caland was the only daughter of Bechara El Khoury, the first post-independence president of Lebanon — a hero of Lebanese nationalism who served from 1943 to 1952. (She had two brothers. Khalil died in 200; Michel is now 91.) But she was to disappoint her father by falling in love with a French-Lebanese man, Paul Caland, the nephew of El Khoury’s greatest rivals. She had three children with Paul Caland in Beirut but she also soon took a lover called Mustafa before she decided to leave her children, her lover and her husband for Paris. In the 2018 monograph ‘Huguette Caland: Everything Takes the Shape of a Person, 1970–78’ essayist Kaelen Wilson-Goldie quotes Nadine Beghdache (daughter of Caland’s Lebanon gallerist Janine Rubeiz) “Huguette was a free woman and it was too much for Beirut … the place for women in society was really changing.” At the time, Caland was painting nudes, which reportedly caused speculation and shock about her morals among members of the local art scene. ‘Huguette Caland’ at Tate St Ives, May 24 – September 1, 2019. #neonurchin #neonurchinblog #dedicatedtothethingswelove #suzyurchin #ollyurchin #art #music #photography #fashion #film #words #pictures #neon #urchin #huguettecaland #artist #lines #drawings #clothes #pierrecardin #feminist #modernistabstraction #tatestives #exhibition #tate (at Tate St. Ives) https://www.instagram.com/p/ByznKJkgZg3/?igshid=1g0gvo4994off