Claude Closky
Birth date22 May 1963 (age 63)
Birth placeParis, France
WorksDrawing, painting, new media
AwardsMarcel Duchamp Prize (2005)
Websitehttps://www.closky.info

Claude Closky (born 22 May 1963) is a French artist who lives and works in Paris.

Reception

Closky won the "Grand prix des Arts plastiques" (1999)[1] and the Marcel Duchamp Prize (2005)[2] awarded by the ADIAF.[3]

Dike Blair wrote in Artforum Magazine that "The lightness of Closky's art belies the depth of its absurdist heredity. Working in a post-modernist mode, Closky's art works combine aspects of the Situationists, Fluxus, Beckett, Daniel Buren, and Andy Warhol."[4]

Life and career

Claude Closky has no formal training as a visual artist. He entered the ENSAD (Ecole National Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs) in 1982, but quit at the end of the first year to co-found The Ripoulin Brothers, a street artist collective, with Bla+Bla+Bla, Nina Childress, Jean Faucheur, Pierre Huyghe, Manhu, Ox, Trois carrés. In 1988, he left the group to develop his independent work, using voluntarily poor means such as drawing and printed matter.[5]

He has participated in the Biennials of Lyon (1995),[6] Sydney (1996), Taipei (2000),[7] València (2001), Sharjah (2005),[8] Venice (2017),[9] Mardin (2024).[10][11] In 2000, the Mudam (Luxembourg Art Museum) commissioned him to conceive and manage its website, for which he made a magazine and a gallery dedicated to the internet. The site was launched at the Luxembourg Pavilion in the 2001, Venice Biennale. It presented specific works by Heath Bunting, François Curlet, Pierre Leguillon, Aleksandra Mir, Peter Kogler, David Shrigley, among others. Since 2005, he has taught at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris. In 2012, he curated This & There, an exhibition to celebrate the tenth year of the Pavilion, Palais de Tokyo Laboratory for Creation (Paris) which presented the work of 74 artists in 74 different spaces.[12] He has curated in 2020 X[13] at the Frac Pays de la Loire[14] and in 2023 Offset[15][16] at the Centre des livres d'artistes.

Work

The work of Claude Closky is mainly immaterial. Language is his model to articulate images, text, numbers, and sounds collected in our environment, or made in his studio. Although Closky is reluctant to produce objects and spectacular effects, his work still addresses issues about visibility and space appropriation.[17]

Claude Closky's projects always find alternative ways to emancipate themselves from the formats imposed by the sites where they are exhibited. He seeks to point out the contradictions of our contemporary society and its representations, but also to question the role of art as producer of a cultural consensus and set of values. His works confront and question our environment, the conditions and benefits of artistic production, its relation to an audience.[18]

References

  1. ^ "Les Grands Prix nationaux 1999" (in French). Le Monde.fr. 1999-06-15. Retrieved 2023-02-06.
  2. ^ "Claude Closky :". centrepompidou.fr. Retrieved 23 April 2017.
  3. ^ "Claude Closky – ADIAF". adiaf.com. Retrieved 23 April 2017.
  4. ^ "Openings: Claude Closky. – Free Online Library". thefreelibrary.com. Retrieved 23 April 2017.
  5. ^ "Claude Closky". newmedia-art.org. Archived from the original on 14 July 2014. Retrieved 23 April 2017.
  6. ^ "Biennale d'art contemporain Lyon 95". labiennaledelyon.com. Retrieved 23 April 2017.
  7. ^ "2000taipei biennial". sinica.edu.tw. Retrieved 23 April 2017.
  8. ^ "'Divisions', Claude Closky's work at the 7th Sharjah Biennial". sharjahart.org. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 23 April 2017.
  9. ^ "HyperPavilion". hyperpavilion2017.com. Archived from the original on 15 April 2017. Retrieved 13 May 2017.
  10. ^ "The 6th Mardin Biennial: Gazing “Further Away”! | Hitit Seramik". www.hititseramik.com.tr. Retrieved 2024-06-21.
  11. ^ "Çağdaş sanatın rotası Mardin Bienali’ne çevrildi - Artam Antik A.Ş. Müzayede". artam.com. Retrieved 2024-06-21.
  12. ^ "Ça & là – This & There". online.fr. Retrieved 23 April 2017.
  13. ^ "X: works presented at the Frac Pays de la Loire". x.sittes.net. Archived 2021-07-09 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 2021-07-02.
  14. ^ Jaumouillé, Laure (Winter 2020–21). "Claude Closky, X, Frac des Pays de la Loire, Carquefou, 16.12.2020–04.07.2021" (in French). Zérodeux / 02. ISSN 1622-8324. Retrieved 2021-07-02.
  15. ^ Arnaudet, Didier (2023-02-02). "Sortir de l'ordre établi" (PDF). Junkpage. p. 28. ISSN 2268-6126. Retrieved 2023-02-19.
  16. ^ cdla (2023-01-18). "Offset". le cdla. Retrieved 2023-02-19.
  17. ^ "Artslantstreet.com". artslantstreet.com. Archived from the original on 2017-04-24. Retrieved 23 April 2017.
  18. ^ "Claude Closky". centrepompidou.fr. Retrieved 23 April 2017.