François Curlet
trois fois par jour
01 Feb - 30 Mar 2019
François Curlet
The Yummy Patriot, 2018
film HD, projection et affiche M/M (Paris)
1 min 47 sec, en boucle / affiche 175 x 118,5 cm
Edition de 5
Avec Stéphane Roger
Production: Altitude 100
The Yummy Patriot, 2018
film HD, projection et affiche M/M (Paris)
1 min 47 sec, en boucle / affiche 175 x 118,5 cm
Edition de 5
Avec Stéphane Roger
Production: Altitude 100
FRANÇOIS CURLET
trois fois par jour
1 February - 30 March 2019
FRANÇOIS CURLET
Born in 1967, Paris
Lives and works Piacé, Brussels and Arles
«Born in France, François Curlet moved to Belgium at the age of twenty-two, after crucial stopovers at the national art schools in Saint Étienne and Grenoble. Periods of French leave aside, for the last thirty years he’s been living in Brussels. In the meantime cultural hijacking, piracy and contrarian repurposing have built a reputation for a mix of wit and the poetic that assails the social, political and cultural implications of the everyday objects and readymade signifiers churned out by our consumer society.»
François Curlet has had numerous solo exhibitions in France and Europe, in venues including the MAC’s Grand Hornu, the Palais de Tokyo in Paris, Le Plateau/Frac Île de France and the Regional Centre for Contemporary Art in Sète. His work has been acquired by leading public collections in France and Europe, among them the Centre Pompidou, Tate Modern, Grand Hornu in Belgium and the Van Abbe Museum in the Netherlands...
The work of the American artist Dan Graham, Two Adjacent Pavilions, located in the park of the KröllerMüller Museum, challenges the Modernist architecture and the curtain walls of glass skyscrapers designed for executives that wish to see without being seen. Made of one-way mirrors, Two Adjacent Pavilions invites the public to experience this by placing oneself either on the inside or outside of the glass walls. In Air Graham François Curlet stretches the social criticism of his elder by hiring two mimes to enact an imaginary replica / extension of the two pavilions in which they end-up finding themselves locked-up.
trois fois par jour
1 February - 30 March 2019
FRANÇOIS CURLET
Born in 1967, Paris
Lives and works Piacé, Brussels and Arles
«Born in France, François Curlet moved to Belgium at the age of twenty-two, after crucial stopovers at the national art schools in Saint Étienne and Grenoble. Periods of French leave aside, for the last thirty years he’s been living in Brussels. In the meantime cultural hijacking, piracy and contrarian repurposing have built a reputation for a mix of wit and the poetic that assails the social, political and cultural implications of the everyday objects and readymade signifiers churned out by our consumer society.»
François Curlet has had numerous solo exhibitions in France and Europe, in venues including the MAC’s Grand Hornu, the Palais de Tokyo in Paris, Le Plateau/Frac Île de France and the Regional Centre for Contemporary Art in Sète. His work has been acquired by leading public collections in France and Europe, among them the Centre Pompidou, Tate Modern, Grand Hornu in Belgium and the Van Abbe Museum in the Netherlands...
The work of the American artist Dan Graham, Two Adjacent Pavilions, located in the park of the KröllerMüller Museum, challenges the Modernist architecture and the curtain walls of glass skyscrapers designed for executives that wish to see without being seen. Made of one-way mirrors, Two Adjacent Pavilions invites the public to experience this by placing oneself either on the inside or outside of the glass walls. In Air Graham François Curlet stretches the social criticism of his elder by hiring two mimes to enact an imaginary replica / extension of the two pavilions in which they end-up finding themselves locked-up.