An enchanting convening of texts and images, diaries and epistles celebrating a unique voice and ongoing dialogue around the erotics of art. Beginning with the artist's own words from what remain of annotated sketchbooks, this intimate volume journeys from Beirut through Paris to Venice, California, recording the impulses of an atypical, spellbinding character whose voice helped to shape mid- and late-twentieth-century modernism.
Born in Beirut in 1931, the only daughter of the first post-independence president of Lebanon Bechara El Khoury, Huguette observed the blossoming of Lebanon's creative and cultural scene as Beirut become a metaphorical jewel and the seat of many conjured mythologies. Following her father's death, and now married to Frenchman Paul Caland and with three children, she completed her first painting in 1964 and informally enrolled in art and design classes at the American University in Beirut (AUB). During this formative period she began a lifelong friendship with the bold and brilliant artist, educator, gallerist, and author Helen Khal. In 1970, Caland left Beirut for Paris and there began one of her most storied collaborations, with the fashion designer Pierre Cardin who invited her to design a series of dresses and caftans. Having relocated again to Venice, California, in 1987 she became a doyenne of the Los Angeles art scene, regularly hosting fellow artists at her home, including Larry Bell, Chris Burden, and one of her dearest comrades, Ed Moses.
For Caland, the body was an unceasing point of obsession and a centrifugal point of investigation. Lithe in outline, her art--erotic compositions on paper, expressive collages, layered self-portraits, and her celebrated "Bribes de corps" paintings cumulatively manifest a composite image of a body in perpetual motion. Hers is a figure that refuses to be contained by logic or ideology, a self that is not prescribed by others but instead open to all of life's possibilities, its people, and their interpretations.
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一個迷人的文本與圖像、日記與書信的聚會，慶祝著一種獨特的聲音和圍繞藝術的情色進行的持續對話。
這本親密的書籍以藝術家自己的話語開始，來自於她所保留的註解素描本，這本書的旅程從貝魯特經巴黎到威尼斯，加州，記錄了一位不尋常、迷人的角色的衝動，她的聲音幫助塑造了二十世紀中後期的現代主義。
Huguette於1931年出生在貝魯特，是黎巴嫩第一位獨立後總統Bechara El Khoury的獨生女，目睹了黎巴嫩創意和文化場景的蓬勃發展，貝魯特成為了一個隱喻的瑰寶和許多神話的發源地。在父親去世後，她嫁給了法國人Paul Caland，並育有三名子女，於1964年完成了她的第一幅畫，並非正式地在美國貝魯特大學（AUB）報名參加藝術和設計課程。在這段形成期，她與大膽而才華橫溢的藝術家、教育家、畫廊經營者和作家Helen Khal建立了終生的友誼。1970年，Caland離開貝魯特前往巴黎，並在那裡開始了她最著名的合作之一，與時裝設計師Pierre Cardin合作，受邀設計一系列裙子和長袍。1987年，她再次搬到加州的威尼斯，成為洛杉磯藝術界的女主人，定期在家中接待其他藝術家，包括Larry Bell、Chris Burden，以及她最親密的夥伴之一Ed Moses。
對Caland來說，身體是一個不斷的痴迷點和一個離心的調查點。她的藝術在輪廓上纖細，包含了紙上的情色構圖、表現性的拼貼、層疊的自畫像，以及她著名的《Bribes de corps》畫作，這些作品共同展現了一個持續運動的身體的綜合形象。她的形象拒絕被邏輯或意識形態所限制，一個不受他人規範的自我，而是對生活的所有可能性、其人民及其詮釋持開放態度。
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Professor Dr. Omar Kholeif is an award-winning author, artist, curator, and cultural historian, and director of collections and senior curator at Sharjah Art Foundation, Govt. of Sharjah, UAE. Co-director and founder of the nonprofit artPost21, Kholeif is also a visiting professor in critical race, fine art, and creative industries at Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art Research Unit, Teesside University, UK. Recent books include
Nil Yalter: Circular Tension (2024),
Otobong Nkanga: Stitched Dreams (2024), and
Internet_Art: From the Birth of the Web to the Rise of NFTs (2023).
Since 2005, Dr. Brigitte Caland has managed the estate of her mother Huguette Caland (1931-2019) and curated or co-curated several exhibitions of her work. For several years, she taught in the Arabic and Near Eastern languages department at the American University of Beirut (AUB).
奧馬爾·科萊夫教授（Professor Dr. Omar Kholeif）是一位獲獎的作家、藝術家、策展人和文化歷史學家，並擔任阿聯酋沙迦藝術基金會（Sharjah Art Foundation）收藏部主任及高級策展人。作為非營利組織artPost21的共同主任和創始人，科萊夫同時也是英國提賽德大學（Teesside University）現代藝術研究單位的訪問教授，專注於批判種族、純藝術和創意產業。最近出版的書籍包括《Nil Yalter: Circular Tension》（2024）、《Otobong Nkanga: Stitched Dreams》（2024）和《Internet_Art: From the Birth of the Web to the Rise of NFTs》（2023）。
自2005年以來，布里吉特·卡朗德博士（Dr. Brigitte Caland）一直管理她母親雨果特·卡朗德（Huguette Caland，1931-2019）的遺產，並策劃或共同策劃了多個她作品的展覽。幾年來，她在貝魯特美國大學（American University of Beirut，AUB）的阿拉伯語及近東語言系任教。
