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Claude Lévêque at Musée du Louvre, Paris
photo and video by Pascal Gillet

CLAUDE LEVEQUE  Je suis venu ici pour me cacher

CLAUDE LEVEQUE “Je suis venu ici pour me cacher” neon tubes performance exhibition at Mazarine agency on a 2000 m² space. A special collaboration with gallerist Kamel Menour and director of La Mode en Image company Olivier Massart. Cocktail and dj’s ambiance inside and burgers and fries specially cooked by order in the courtyard.
Photos by Pascal Gillet

Claude Lévêque is not a photographer, nor is he an artist who works with photography as Boltanski, Gette, Annette Messager or even Le Gac were in the 1970s. But he is an artist who is constantly making photographs, perhaps even more than photographers themselves. What he records is at once funny and terrible, keen and poetic. Sometimes an observation, sometimes a step aside in reality — as in his others works, which as we know, are made up of tensions between opposite poles, where violence and gentleness, tenderness and terror, mingle and collide. With humor, roars of laughter and a sense of playfulness that delights and, at times, undermines our understanding.This exhibition contains no framed prints. Rather, the images are projected according to different rhythms and in a different formats, accompanied by two neon sculptures in a intimate hanging that maintains associations linked with the images: identification, exploration, observation, research. this is a journey in images from the artist’s universe — that of a major French contemporary artist offering us a glance at his diary, his sketchbook.The title “A dream moment” is, of course, an antiphrasis, a figure of speech in which one expresses an idea by deploying its opposite.

– Text by Michel Nuridsany
– Photo report by Pascal Gillet

LA MAISON EUROPÉENNE DE LA PHOTOGRAPHIE
5/7 Rue de Fourcy – 75004 Paris
Untill 6th of June 2013

Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac announce Only parts of us will ever touch parts of others, a group show curated by Timothée Chaillou. 
Covering twenty years of artistic practice, from the nineties until today, the works featured in the exhibition are all related to collage, montage and fragmentation. The display is itself conceived as a collage in space by the juxtaposition of several mediums (works on paper, wallpaintings, sculptures and videos), the superimposition of works (placed on wallpaintings/wallpapers) and the presence of works composed of mirrors, fragmenting the exhibition and the public.
This project follows on from shows such as Infinite Fold (2010), dedicated to artists who transform the paper’s surface by folding it, and Landscope (2008), which revolved around the notion of landscape in contemporary drawing.

John M Armleder – Jesse Ash – Walead Beshty – Pierre Bismuth – Barbara Breitenfellner – Tom Burr – Anne Collier – Sam Durant – Marcel Dzama – Haris Epaminonda – Angus Fairhurst – Urs Fischer – Brendan Fowler – Luke Fowler – Noa Giniger – Wade Guyton – Robert Heinecken – Camille Henrot – Nathan Hylden – Annette Kelm – Gabriel Kuri – Elad Lassry – Claude Lévêque – Linder – Mathieu Mercier – Jonathan Monk – Sarah Morris – Richard Prince – Collier Schorr – John Stezaker – Catherine Sullivan – Kelley Walker – Gary Webb – Lawrence Weiner – TJ WIlcox – Cerith Wyn Evans

Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac
7, rue Debelleyme, 75003 Paris
30 novembre 2012 – 19 janvier 2013

Dans le cadre de la dixième édition du  parcours Saint Germain, presentation de l’artiste Claude Leveque.
16 octobre — 30 octobre 2012

Photo. Pascal Gillet