Interview on Art with Claude Closky

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.