Claude Closky
dal 16/5/2006 al 30/7/2006
Segnalato da
16/5/2006
Claude Closky
Centre Pompidou, Paris
Manege. He is the fifth winner of the Prix Marcel Duchamp. The show consists of 16 flat screens regularly spaced along the walls, showing moving images that shift from screen to screen before being followed by another. These graphic or photographic sequences depict actions, gestures decomposed into stills. Curated by Jean-Pierre Bordaz.
Manege
curated by Jean-Pierre Bordaz
Claude Closky is the fifth winner of the Prix Marcel Duchamp, and like Thomas
Hirschhorn, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Mathieu Mercier and Carole Benzaken before
him, he has been invited to create a work to be shown at the Centre Pompidou. His
Mane'ge can be seen in Espace 315 from 17 May to 31 July 2006.
Closky was honoured by the jury and for the maturity and complexity of a visual
language that he has succeeded in raising to universality; He is an
omnipresent figure in Paris, where he is represented by Galerie Laurent Godin, and
has had more than 200 exhibitions abroad, showing in Germany, Switzerland, Italy,
the United States, Japan and elsewhere.
The artist is no stranger to the Centre Pompidou: he designed the admission ticket
and the wallpaper for the administrative offices.
Mane'ge, especially conceived for Espace 315, consists of 16 flat screens
regularly spaced along the walls, showing moving images that shift from screen to
screen before being followed by another. These graphic or photographic sequences
depict actions, gestures decomposed into stills. They are accompanied as they move
round by a repeating instrumental, a jingle. Mane'ge marries progression (the
succession of images) with repetition (the jingle) but relies more particularly on
the passage of linear time marked by the punctual division of continuous movement.
The flat screens are more like paintings than video monitors: their role is only to
pass on what is given them. Although now a familiar feature on gallery walls, the
screens are entirely ordinary and merely passive in their role.
The circulation of the image from one screen to the next relies on the cutting, the
image disappearing abruptly to appear equally abruptly elsewhere, drawing the
viewer's eye behind it. Only the jingle escapes to fill the whole space, parodying
the surround sound of the cinema.
Opening: 17 May 2006
Centre Pompidou
Place Georges Pompidou 01 - Paris
Hours: from 11am to 9pm