Ariane Lopez-Huici

Ariane Lopez- Huici (* 1945 in Biarritz, France) is a French- American photographer.

Life and work

Ariane Lopez- Huici was born in 1945 as the daughter of Eugenio Lopez- Huici and Evelyne Belly in Biarritz. Your Great Aunt Eugenia Errazuriz Huici (1860 - 1951) was a patron of the arts, a friend of Igor Stravinsky and Pablo Picasso, whose model it was. A. Lopez- Huici studied from 1965 at the Pietro Vannucci Fine Arts Academy in Perugia and the Arts School of the Museum Nissim de Camondo in Paris. In 1970, she was Assistant to the Brazilian filmmaker Nelson Pereira dos Santos, one of the pioneers of the Cinema Novo. The art of light and setting photographic techniques she learned to speak through him. You photographed with a 35 mm camera. Your first photo exhibition was in 1977 at Dartmouth College. In 1980 she moved with her husband, the sculptor Alain Kirili, whom she had married in 1977, to New York.

Her work focuses on the human body. By choosing their models it exceeds the limits of the prevailing beauty conventions. Lopez- Huici uses black and white photography with deep black areas and a pronounced grain. In the series Aviva, Dalila and Holly she shows her penchant for fleshy body. Your African series Adama & Omar and Kenekoubo Ogoïre shows their preference for physical expression. Rebelles and Triumph work with a group of bulky women who can hold their own. Her latest series Priscille, 2009-2010, with a disabled model, was raised in the tradition of Auguste Rodin, who said to find the true beauty and personality in fragments of the body.

" ( ... ) I'm Often asked why I choose the type of model I DO. Why these? My body type is small and slender, Whereas Aviva, Dalila, and Holly are Rubenesque. For me, at least, there 's a large element of the unknown in the act of creating. If I really knew the answer I would not photograph them. My choice of models depends on a variety of Circumstances: how we meet, our desires, possibilities did attract and intrigue, the transgression of normative boundaries, the confidence one Creates in order to persuade someone to pose. What I photograph is the irreducible mystery of my models (...). "

Exhibitions (selection)

Solo Exhibitions

  • 2012 New York University in France, Paris 2012
  • 2007 New York Studio School, New York
  • 2004 Valencian Institute of Modern Art, Valencia, Spain
  • 2004 Musée de Grenoble, France
  • 2002 Ecole d'arts Plastique, Chatellerault France
  • 1996 AC Project Room New York
  • 1988 Art Station St. Peter (Cologne ), Cologne
  • 1983 Photography Center, Los Angeles
  • 1982 MoMA PS1, Queens, New York

Group Exhibitions

  • 2012 Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art: Feminist Art Base: Ariane Lopez- Huici, Brooklyn Museum, New York
  • 2001 Voluptés, curated by Elga Wimmer, Borusan Istanbul
  • 2000 Foire internationale d'art contemporain, France
  • 1996 The red gate curated by Jan Hoet, Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Art, Ghent, Belgium
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