"What is a masterpiece? A work which addresses age-old conventions. The best way to define it is the dictionary. According to the internet: "A consummate work, very beautiful in its own right"."
An Oulipian heir to Magritte and conceptual art, the economy of the sign (designation, signifier and signified ...), Claude Closky is one of the most important figures of contemporary French art. His protean œuvre (paintings, websites, sculptures, photographs, drawings, videos, collages, books, sound works, etc.) is deeply resistant to any spectacularization. His work draws on keen observation of the media and the world of communication to produce an incisive and entertaining critique of tired majority models of representation, especially in advertising. Framing the tautological practice of conceptual art as a form of absurd, farcical paroxysm, the artist tirelessly draws up lists, classifies them, orders them and indexes the images, speech and products of the mass media and of our consumer society.