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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.