Wow! Yeah!
Claude Closky
2/5 series
Captures éditions
English and French
Softcover
1 A2 folded format sheet
Housed in a vanilla envelope with other publications from the 2/5 series (2020–2022)
420 x 594 mm
2022
ISBN 9782491549220
Claude Closky (born in Paris, 1963) proposes a continuation of his work on the relationship between abstraction and language: an image that is too open versus a discourse that is too closed; an image that is difficult to grasp versus a discourse that is difficult to avoid. The project is based on the 2/5 collection’s opposite formats of the A6 booklet and A2 poster.
(Source: https://captures-editions.com/en/produit/2-5-copie)
About the Artist
Claude Closky was born in 1963 in Paris. He lives and works in Paris. The work of Claude Closky is mainly immaterial. Language is his model to articulate images, text, numbers, and sounds collected in our environment, or made in his studio. Although reluctant to producing objects and spectacular effects, Closky’s work still addresses issues about visibility and space appropriation. Claude Closky’s projects always find alternative ways to emancipate themselves from the formats imposed by the sites where they are exhibited. He seeks to point out the contradictions of our contemporary society and its representations, but also to question the role of art as producer of a cultural consensus and set of values. His works confront and question our environment, the conditions and benefits of artistic production, its relation to an audience.
https://www.closky.info
(Source: https://www.artsy.net/artist/claude-closky)
About the Publisher
2/5 falls into the artists’ books series published by Captures. Four guests per year work within the same space of an open A2 format sheet (420 x 594mm), giving rise to various proposals depending on how the sheet is folded.
https://captures-editions.com/en
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