Event

Interview on Art with Claude Closky

Thursday 10 February 2022 at 7 pm

Tautological games, logical jokes, economic comedy, the poetry of codes and dictionaries, the pleasure of lists: after a period of display-picture making that still seems to leave him skeptical, Claude Closky asserted himself in the 1990s as a playful conceptualist. His work, which manifests itself in a variety of forms and media, from websites to drawings, publishing, collage, installation, photography, poetry, video, and performance, eludes any attempt to define an identifiable visual style (although he often takes a minimalist approach). For as much, his work is always carrying a criticism of the media languages and the technological environments, criticism which accomplishes the feat to be simultaneously subtle and acerbic (for who wants to pay attention). We will find no great discourse, and no temptation of erudition, but a replication of the systems of information and representation pushed to the extreme, which sends back the languages of the advertising, the social networks, the company, and all this small propaganda of the everyday life, to their radical absurdity.

Claude Closky was born in 1963 in Paris. Lives and works in Paris.

installation adhesif 10 blocs de dessins détachables offerts au public dimensions variables. Vue d'exposition Interface Dijon 2021
installation adhesif 10 blocs de dessins détachables offerts au public dimensions variables. Vue d'exposition Interface Dijon 2021
Speakers

Jill Gasparina

Date
Time
19h00
Location
Fondation Pernod Ricard
1 cours Paul Ricard
75008 Paris
Free entrance
Free admission, without reservation