Claude Closky, won the "Grand prix des Arts Plastiques" (1999) and the Marcel Duchamp Prize (2006), whose Works displayed in more than two hundred exhibitions abroad France and plenty of times in France, partaken of important museums collection, is a world-famous post-conceptual artist. The Works of the French artist, borne in 1963 and lives in Paris, are primarily been exhibited in Turkey, with the exhibition opened in Akbank Art Center in 16th of January, named ‘Heads or Tales’, curated by Ali Akay.
The artist, known with the Works problematizing The funny and vapid abundance of consumption society, questions the absurdity of symbols turning into an object with the juxtaposition of meanings, depends on the opposition, lets the audience to perceive the illusion of personal choice and its manipulation in absurd systems with a terrific and gently radical expression.
He criticize the categorization through ambiguous use of meanings imposed to images by the images he took from Mass media and internet, precluding the aesthetical meanings and he paraphrases the bond between form and content with a multi-faceted point of view. He explicates the components of systems and daily life through embedded explanations, with objectifying meanings, which puts the value judgments, affirmed being objective but based on relativity, in their subjective nakedness hidden.
Despite focusing on the Logic between systems and entity in his early works, he majors on chronological, alphabetical and numerical explanations in systems with his recent works.
With this exhibition, named after the two-dimensional opposition of number (heads) and writing (tails), designating the disappearance and permeability of discrimination of the images, words and voices, the artist reminds the viewer of being stuck in bilateral choices and contrariety of life, referring to transience of meaning and absurdity, impossibility of choice in accelerated daily life through information age. This also refers the congestion in art as a part of this explanation frame like other systems.
According to Ali Akay, the curator of this exhibition, the artist through this exhibition, by standing silently, making us think about significance or insignificance of images, creating contradictory and binary oppositions where he gives some hints of the recent past of art history, of world of information and news, of labels in consumer society's everyday life, of images between words and of echoes in sounds and similarities to the viewer stuck into oppositions of no choice and double-sided images.
Three Works of artist is being displayed in this exhibition which are an installation, a dia-projection and a video animation. The work on the grounding floor named as ‘Flat World’, is composed of thousands of double-sided images put on a huge white table, makes the viewer feel that he/she is going to be transcribed by moving in the gallery. They are denoting that the naiveté of own with the white color of the table, the demotion pressure toward multidimensionality with the two dimensional images, the perception shaped with bilateral relations of meaning with double-sided printing.
‘No Choice’ displayed in the big room of second floor, through incompatible but relevant images projected to the walls facing one another, which makes the concurrent view impossible, refers the randomicity of choice, meaning’s permeability and incomparability created by dualism.
‘Geo Metry’ being displayed in the small room of the second floor, makes us feel the symbols partaking to the unavoidable flow of time, through cyclically stretching geometric forms on world map.
It is ironic to choose a gallery fort his exhibition at Istiklal street where adjacencies and oppositions are highly permeable, coding and decoding, significance and insignificance occur fast. Don’t forget to visit Akbank Art Center until 6th of march to see one of the most important figure of contemporary art in the world, if you have a choice…
Alper Karabatak
1 February 2010
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