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Claude Lévêque

Born in 1953 in Nevers. Lives and works in Montreuil and in Pèteloup.

Claude Levêque's work is poetic, dream-like and imbued with a sense of danger. It contains a gentle violence which invites us to explore reality and in which we swing between attraction and repulsion. His approach draws on the sensorial appropriation of spaces. To feel, to sense the places, to retain the impressions, the smells. To enter into contact in order to understand, to rub up against reality, to live with it. For What Comes, Claude Lévêque will exhibit Le réveil de la jeunesse empoionnée (The Rize of Poisoned Youth). This phrase inscribed on six meters of red neon, is taken from the song of the same title by the hardcore group Terror from Los Angeles. It is written in a child's handwriting which renders it both aggressive and fragile, the image of the present state of the world, according to the artist. On show in the Couvent des Jacobins, the work takes on added weight by the way it radiates red onto a damaged wall of the site. For Claude Lévêque "The rize of poisoned youth awakens from ambiguous territories along with inevitable corruption".

Together with les Ateliers de Rennes, the art galery Lendroit -artist and printed art publishers- have asked Claude Lévêque to create posters which echo his proposition and which will be on view through out the town during the event.