Philippe Parreno at the Park Avenue Armory, where his work “H{N)Y P N(Y}OSIS” will open on June 11. It will be his largest installation to date in the United States. CreditAlex Welsh for The New York Times.

When he was young, the French artist Philippe Parreno had a fantasy in which he would open his mouth and a beam of projector light would shoot out, casting his thoughts onto whatever was in front of him, medium and message in one human head. “My imagination would just be easy and available,” he once told the computer scientist Jaron Lanier. For more than 20 years, Mr. Parreno’s imagination has been abundantly available in shows that seek, with a kind of operatic flair, to upend the sense of what an art exhibition can be: a moving sculpture you can sit on; a piece consisting of a talking ventriloquist and dancing curtains; another in which the temperature in a gallery plummets and an immense snowdriftslowly reveals itself.......Continue Reading

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