Claude Lévêque: Le Grand Soir

Claude Lévêque represents France at the Venice Biennale.

With an installation consisting of images, light and sound. Entitled Le Grand Soir, it directly refers to the concept of revolution and evokes the oscillation from the present to a moment immediately afterwards in which everything has changed. “When you’re in a vulnerable situation, consuming art is not a priority,” states Lévêque with regards to art’s position in the contemporary world. “But it can help get back in touch with life, with not being stuck in suffering. That’s what will save art: if it stays only in the merchant circuit, it will die very quickly.” To underline this in this project, the artist – one of the most important and best known on the contemporary French scene – has chosen Christian Bernard as curator, the director of the museum of modern and contemporary art in Geneva. E.S.

French Pavilion, Giardini di Castello

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