Pierre Huyghe’s Untilled (Liegender Frauenakt)

The Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden, first floor, exterior

On view for the first time since its recent acquisition, French artist Pierre Huyghe’s 2012 sculpture Untilled (Liegender Frauenakt) [Reclining female nude] incorporates a live colony of a gentle breed of bees, which serves as the head of a concrete cast of an idealized female nude. This tour de force of Huyghe’s oeuvre reflects his concern with living systems, and the timing of the sculpture’s display is determined by the natural cycle of the bee colony, which is most active during the summer months. Operating according to its own natural logic, the colony introduces a dynamic community into the Sculpture Garden’s summer installation.

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