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Claude Lévêque

09.26.08 - 10.19.08
Exhibition — Maison Eclusière

Claude Lévêque, Maison Éclusière, 2008, ©DR, Le Printemps de septembre - à Toulouse

Claude Lévêque, Maison Éclusière, 2008, ©DR, Le Printemps de septembre - à Toulouse

Claude Lévêque, Maison Éclusière, 2008, ©DR, Le Printemps de septembre - à Toulouse

Born in 1953 in Nevers (France), he lives and works in Montreuil (France) and Peteloup (France).

 

Deeply involved, first, in the punk scene and the trash energy of the 1980s, Claude Léveque is nowadays a figure at once well established and invariably offering alternatives in the French art scene. As a dark genie of places, he revisits exhibition venues by way of environmental and light works, with objects and sounds contributing to a very specific atmosphere.

 

What is the nature of your project?

Autumn rendez-vous is the title of a Françoise Hardy song which will be used in the exhibition, sung by the choir from an old people's home.

 

It's a circuit you invite onlookers to take...

I never reveal too much about things before they're made, and first and foremost because they may change. For the time being, I'm imagining a “stepped up” autumnal atmosphere, with rotting dead leaves everywhere on the ground, as much in the storeroom as in the small private apartments in the lock house, upstairs. I love this place, and I very quickly had this idea of an invasive autumnal situation.

 

What does the dictum “Wherever I am going, I am already there” do for you?

It's a superb credit-like title; it could have been the title of my work. It's very mental, like a sort of schizophrenic inside-out thing opening onto a circuit, but with nothing beyond.