Claude Closky

Claude Closky
Claude Closky, ‘Manège [Roundabout]’, 2006, sixteen 32" flat screens, sixteen pairs of stereo speakers, computer, dimensions variable, unlimited duration. Exhibition view ‘Manège’, Centre Pompidou, Paris. 16 May - 31 July 2006. Curated by Jean-Pierre Bordaz.
Born	1963 Paris
Works	Drawing, painting, new media
Awards	Marcel_Duchamp_Prize (2005)
Website	http://www.closky.info

Claude Closky is a French artist, born in Paris in 1963.

Reception

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

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, Tall, Daniel Buren, and Andy Warhol."^[3]

Monographs

• And - Éditions Laurent Godin, Paris, 2013
• Claude Closky, Yazı mı Tura mı - Ali Akay - Éditions Akbank Art Center, Istanbul, 2010
• Claude Closky, 8002-9891 - Essaie: Michel Gauthier, design graphique: Jérôme Saint-Loubert Bié, direction de la publication: Julie David. Éditions Mac/Val, Vitry, 2008
• Climb at your own risk - Eduardo Cicelyn, Katy Siegel & Paul Mattick, interview by Marie Muracciole - Electa, 2007
• Claude Closky - Jean-Pierre Bordaz, Marie Muracciole, François Piron, Katty Siegel & Paul Mattick - Edition Centre Georges Pompidou, 2006
• Hello and Welcome - Carole Boulbès, Lynne Cooke, Alexandra Midal, Frédéric Paul, François Piron, David Platzker, Eric Troncy - co-édition domaine Kergéhénec/Le Parvis, 2004
• Claude Closky - Frédéric Paul - Hazan 1999
• Claude Closky - Magazines - Olivier Zahm - Purple Books, 1998
• Claude Closky - Le Parvis - Pascaline Cuvellier - edition Le Parvis, 1996

Solo show selection

• Jackpot, Esbama, Montpellier, 2013^[4]
• Seven and Not Seven, JAP, Brussels, 2013^[5]
• Diplopie, Laurent Godin Gallery, Paris, 2013^[6]
• Dönüp Durmak, Şekerbank Açıkekran Yeni Medya Sanatları Galerisi, Istanbul, 2013 ^[7]
• Barking and Meoing, AC Institute, New York, 2012 ^[8]
• Animations, Le Quartier, Quimper, 2012 ^[9]
• Inside a Triangle, MFC-Michèle Didier, Paris, 2011 ^[10]
• ZNASDNAR, Mitterrand+Sanz, Zürich, 2011 ^[11]
• Rarori, Galerie Mehdi Chouakri, Berlin, 2010 ^[12]
• Laloli, Galerie Laurent Godin, Paris, 2010 ^[13]
• Yazı mı Tura mı, Akbank Art Center, Istanbul, 2010 ^[14]
• Town and Country, Mitterrand+Sanz, Zurich, 2009 ^[15]
• Illumination, Le Creux de l’Enfer, Thiers, 2009
• 8002-9891, Mac/Val, Vitry-sur-Seine, 2008
• Music Video, 韩之演当代空间 (Han Ji Yun Contemporary Space), Beijing, 2008
• Yes, Galleria Enrico Fornello, Prato, 2008
• Love and Fear, Concert Hall, Threshold Artspace, Perth, 2007
• Do not cross, Galerie Mehdi Chouakri, Berlin, 2007 ^[16]
• Climb at your own risk, Museo Madre, Napoli, 2007
• Nouvelles peintures, Galerie Laurent Godin, Paris, 2007
• Journal, Banff Centre, Banff, 2006
• Manège, Centre Pompidou, espace 315, Paris, 2006
• Roue de la fortune, Galerie Edward Mitterrand, Genève, 2005
• Journal, GEM, Museum of Contemporary Art, La Haye, 2005.
• You want you have, Galerie Mehdi Chouakri, Berlin, 2004
• U, Fondation Miró, Barcelone, 2004
• Galerie Roger Pailhas, Marseille, 2004
• New paintings, Galerie Nicola - Fornello, Turin, 2003
• Television, Location 1, New York, 2003^[17]
• La salle de bain, Lyon, 2003
• Domaine de Kerguéhennec, 2003
• World News, Galerie Jennifer Flay, Paris, 2002
• Les Dîneurs, Le Parvis - Pau, 2002
• Dundee, Contemporary Art, Dundee, 2001
• Galerie Edward Mitterrand, Genève, 2001
• Hello and Welcome, Base, Florence, 2001
• Objets fétiches, Vitrine de l’Union Centrale des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, 2000
• Yiyi, Galerie Jennifer Flay, Paris, 2000
• Ski, Mala Galleria, Moderna Galerija, Ljubljana, Slovénie, 2000
• Weekend, The Deep Gallery, Tōkyō, 1999

Group show selection

• Women at Work, Coachangdi Photospring Festival, Beijing, 2012^[18]
• Intense Proximity, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, 2012. Curated by Okwui Enwezor, Mélanie Bouteloup, Abdellah Karroum, Emilie Renard, Claire Staebler^[19]
• Print/Out, MoMA (Museum of Modern Art), New York, 2012^[20]
• You have been there - departures, bifurcations, Gallery Marian Goodman, New York, 2011^[21]
• Foreclosed. Between Crisis and Possibility, The Kitchen, New York, 2011 ^[22]
• Replay, Mudam, Luxembourg, 2011 ^[23]
• French Window: looking at the contemporary art through the Marcel Duchamp prize, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, 2011 ^[24]
• Noches eléctricas, LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial, Gijon, Asturias, 2011 ^[25]
• 21st Century: Art in the First Decade, Queensland Art Gallery - Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, 2010 ^[26]
• Les Nuits Electriques, Multimedia Complex of Actual arts (MCAA), Moscow, 2010 ^[27]
• Second Degré, Mudam, Luxembourg, 2010 ^[28]
• Covering the wall. Contemporary wallpapers, Museum of Design and Contemporary Applied Arts, Lausanne, 2010 ^[29]
• Let's Dance, Musée d'art contemporain du Val-de-Marne (Mac/Val), Vitry-sur-Seine, 2010 ^[30]
• ¡Sin techo está pelón!, University of Guanajuato Gallery, Guanajuato, 2010 ^[31]
• Liberty B, Open Space, Baltimore, 2010 ^[32]
• Happy is a place, S.A. de C.V., Mexico City, 2010 ^[33]
• A Map, Bigger Than Its Territory, Gallery Rotor I, Gothenburg, 2010 ^[34]
• A to B, MKG127, Toronto, 2010 ^[35]
• (İstanbul) Transit-Topos, Akbank Sanat, Istanbul, 2010 ^[36]
• Chefs d'oeuvre?, Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz, 2010^[37]
• Michael Jackson Doesn't Quit: Part 3, The Future Gallery, Berlin, 2010 ^[38]
• Selecties & Collecties, Johan Deumens Gallery, Haarlem, 2010 ^[39]
• Quantified Aesthetics, Minnesota Center for Book Arts (MCBA), Minneapolis, 2010 ^[40]
• One Shot! , B.P.S.22 space for contemporary creation, Charleroi, 2010 ^[41]
• Everyday(s), Casino Luxembourg, Luxembourg, 2010 ^[42]
• Le Prix Marcel Duchamp, Galerie Mehdi Chouakri, Berlin, 2010 ^[43]
• Pourquoi attendre !, Centre d'art contemporain, Genève, 2009 ^[44]
• Mille e tre, Musée du Louvre, Paris, 2009 ^[45]
• Nuit Blanche, Gymnase Jean Jaurès, Paris, 2009 ^[46]
• Sweep me off my feet, Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec (MNBA), Québec, 2009 ^[47]
• Scritture Silenziose, Palazzo Dugnani, Milan, 2009 ^[48]
• Multiplo_6 “Uno, nessuno, centomila”, N.O. Gallery, Milano, 2009 ^[49]
• Keep your options open, Galerie Hervé Bize, Nancy, 2009 ^[50]
• The Real Thing, MU, Eindhoven, 2009 ^[51]
• Veisalgia, Galerie de multiples, Paris, 2009 ^[52]
• Outsourced Critics 2006-2009, AC [Institute Direct Chapel], New York, 2009 ^[53]
• N'importe quoi, Musée d'arc Contemporain (MAC), Lyon, 2009 ^[54]
• Replaying Pictures, Musée des beaux-arts, Le Locle, 2009 ^[55]
• Art, Price and Value, Centro di Cultura Contemporanea a Palazzo Strozzi (CCCS), Firenze, 2008^[56]

Selection of artist's publications

• Inside a Triangle, 2011, Brussels: MFC-Michèle Didier^[57]
• My People followed by Biennials, Marseille: Al Dante, 2009^[58]
• Repartir à zéro [starting from scratch], Marseille: (un)limited store^[59]
• Sex, Roma: Electa, 2007^[60]
• A meeting at home, Amsterdam: NEROC'VGM, 2005
• Les Euros, Paris: M19, 2003^[61]
• Mon père, Paris: M19, 2002^[62]
• Beautiful faces, Paris: Trans-photographic press, 2001^[63]
• Coloriage, Paris: onestar press,^[64] Paris, 2001
• Calendrier 2000, Paris: Centre Pompidou, 2000
• Mon Catalogue [my catalogue], 1999, Limoges: Frac Limousin^[65]
• A 1000 things to do, 1994-1996, Paris: Galerie du Jour agnès b.
• De A à Z, Paris: galerie Jennifer Flay, 1992
• The first thousand numbers classified in alphabetical order, self-published, 1989^[66]

References

External links

• Claude Closky offline works.
• Claude Closky news.
• Claude Closky online works.
• Text by Lynne Cooke about Closky's commission for the Dia Art Foundation, 1997.
• Text by Dike Blair about Closky's art pieces for the web, 1999.
• Text by Marie Muracciole about Closky's exhibition at Museo Madre, Naples, 2007.
• Text by Marie Muracciole about Closky's exhibitions Laloli and Rarori, 2010.
• Square One, text by Katy Siegel and Paul Mattick, 2007.
• Internet Site of the Musée d'Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Mudam Luxembourg, conceived by Claude Closky, 2000-2006.
• This & There, web site of the 2012 exhibition Closky has curated to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Pavillon, Palais de Tokyo Creation Lab (Paris).