Isabelle Huppert. La donna dei ritratti
Mole Antonelliana, Torino
6 December 2006 – 18 March 2007
Curated by: Ronald Chammah and Jeanne Fouchet
The exhibit is a series of variations on a single theme, the French actress Isabelle Huppert. Huppert has starred in over 80 international films by directors such as Jean-Luc Godard, Claude Chabrol, Michael Haneke, Benoît Jacquot and Michel Cimino.
Equally prolific as a photographic subject, Huppert has posed for many of the world’s greatest photographers (Cartier-Bresson, Lartigue, Helmut Newton, Richard Avedon, Nan Goldin, Philip-Lorca di Corcia) and appeared in such diverse contexts as photojournalism, fashion photography, cinema and theatre photography, and videos.
The exhibit includes 115 portraits made by 73 photographers between 1968 and the present day, four video installations by Robert Wilson, Gary Hill and Benoît Rossel, and a film retrospective. Works in this exhibition reflect the personal kinship between artist and muse which is integral to the art of portraiture. Though they all share the same subject, each artist successfully creates a unique “decisive moment.” Individual attempts at capturing Huppert’s natural beauty, however, maintain a tension between our awareness of her deeply complicated and compelling cinematic performances and the allusion to her “true” self. The exhibit is a fascinating examination of the versatility of Huppert and the artists who work with her. The catalog includes essays by Susan Sontag, Elfriede Jelinek, Patrice Chéreau and Serge Toubiana and has been published in Italy by Contrasto Libri.
Equally prolific as a photographic subject, Huppert has posed for many of the world’s greatest photographers (Cartier-Bresson, Lartigue, Helmut Newton, Richard Avedon, Nan Goldin, Philip-Lorca di Corcia) and appeared in such diverse contexts as photojournalism, fashion photography, cinema and theatre photography, and videos.
The exhibit includes 115 portraits made by 73 photographers between 1968 and the present day, four video installations by Robert Wilson, Gary Hill and Benoît Rossel, and a film retrospective. Works in this exhibition reflect the personal kinship between artist and muse which is integral to the art of portraiture. Though they all share the same subject, each artist successfully creates a unique “decisive moment.” Individual attempts at capturing Huppert’s natural beauty, however, maintain a tension between our awareness of her deeply complicated and compelling cinematic performances and the allusion to her “true” self. The exhibit is a fascinating examination of the versatility of Huppert and the artists who work with her. The catalog includes essays by Susan Sontag, Elfriede Jelinek, Patrice Chéreau and Serge Toubiana and has been published in Italy by Contrasto Libri.
