- Additional Authors
- Description
- 246 pages : illustrations; 28 cm.
- Summary
- An Uncertain Pleasure is an exhibition that focuses on a specific aspect of the prestigious art collection of the visionary, former Geneva gallerist, and passionate collector Pierre Huber: its time-based media works. This exhibition witnesses the development of video art. The term "time-based media" describes works that unfold temporarily. Includes film, video, mono and multichannel video installations, slideshows, multimedia environments, sound, performance and digital art. Both the arts of time and globalization play an essential role in Pierre Huber's extensive collection. From its beginnings, Huber was one of the few private collectors to fervently support new media, as well as one of the protagonists in the globalization of the art world. This phenomenon facilitated the encounter of several regions with different heritages, political and social contexts marked by cultural diversity, migration, information flows and local conflicts. Spanning four decades, the exhibition is a testament to the development of video art. It includes artists crucial to the history of the medium, such as Nam June Paik and Tony Oursler, or foundational figures for the development of conceptual art, such as Robert Barry or On Kawara. Some key works include those produced between the 1990s and the 2000s by revolutionary artists from North America and Europe such as Fischli & Weiss, Catherine Sullivan, Francesco Vezzoli, Rodney Graham, Paul Pfeiffer, Isaac Julien or Tino Sehgal; but also from Asia, Central and South America, Africa and Oceania, such as William Kentridge, Kimsooja, Shirin Neshat, Candice Breitz, Manon De Boer, Tracey Moffatt or Mariko Mori.
- Alternative Title
- Artes del tiempo en la Colección Pierre Huber
- An uncertain pleasure
- Subject
- Note
- Published on the occasion of the exhibition "An uncertain pleasure: time-based media from the Pierre Huber Collection" held in two venues. The first, inaugurated on September 29 until February 19, 2023, was held in the Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogotá - MAMBO; the second, was held at the Cinemateca de Bogotá from October 29, 2022 to January 23, 2023.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Language (note)
- Texts in Spanish and English.
- Contents
- Prólogo = Prologue / Claudia Hakim -- Video ergo sum: algunas consideraciones sobre las artes del tiempo en la colección de Pierre Huber = Video ergo sum: some considerations on Pierre Huber's time-based art collection / Eugenio Viola -- A-C -- Susurros: conversación indiscreta con los "placeres inciertos" de Pierre Huber = Whispers: an indiscreet conversation about Pierre Huber's "Uncertain Pleasures" / entrevista de Eugenio Viola a Pierre Huber -- C-J -- Incertidumbre, opacidad y ficcion = Uncertainty, opacity and fiction / Juaniko Moreno -- K-M -- N-S -- T-Z.
- ISBN
- OCLC
- Title
Un placer incierto : artes del tiempo en la Colección Pierre Huber = An uncertain pleasure / [curaduría e investigación / curatorial research : Eugenio Viola].
- Publisher
Bogotá : MAMBO, Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogota, 2022.
- Edition
Primera edición.
- Type of Content
text
- Type of Medium
unmediated
- Type of Carrier
volume
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
- Language
Texts in Spanish and English.
- Added Author
Viola, Eugenio, curator.
Museo de Arte Moderno (Bogotá, Colombia), issuing body, host institution.
Instituto Distrital de Cultura y Turismo. Cinemateca Distrital, host institution.