H (N)Y P N(Y) OSIS is Philippe Parreno's new work at the Park Ave Armory, narrative-resistant performance art combining film, sculpture, lighting effects, music and performance. An allee of 26 lighted marquees transforms the Armory's cavernous Wade Thompson Drill Hall into a ghostly facsimile of the Great White Way, repurposed into into a giant indeterminate art receptacle. Uzbekistani classical pianist Mikhail Rudy occasionally drops in to perform a few bars of Liszt. Child actresses impersonate AnnLee, a manga character that Parreno bought with Pierre Huyghe back in 1999. The girls speak to anyone who listens in dreamy, soft voices, asking, “Where are
you from?”
H (N)Y P N(Y) OSIS is Parreno’s second foray into the exaggeratedly ambitious landscape of Gesamtkunstwerk, where the exhibition is conceived as a work of art unto itself. His world is infused with postmodern French philosophy (Georges Bataille, Gilles Deleuze).
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| Philippe Parreno |
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| Annlee, manga character |
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| Philippe Parreno |
