Huguette Caland
1931 -
Lebanese artist and fashion designer.
Huguette Caland is an abstract painter and sculptor who has also worked in fashion design (notably for Pierre Cardin) and filmmaking. The daughter of a former president of Lebanon, she trained under Fernando Manetti and George Apostu and at the American University in Beirut. In Lebanon, she cofounded the InĘżash al-Mukhayyim art center. She lived in Paris for many years and participated in individual and group exhibitions, primarily in Europe and Lebanon. In her paintings, Caland has brought out the sensuous properties of color, the emotive qualities of line, and the tensions that can be created by the juxtaposition of different colors and lines in compositions that often involve the innovative use of negative space. She has participated in major exhibitions in Europe, notably the Venice Biennial.
Bibliography
Khal, Helen. The Woman Artist in Lebanon. Beirut: Institute for Women's Studies in the Arab World, 1987.
— JESSICA WINEGAR
