X: an exhibition (20 November 2020 - 2 January 2022) that took place at the Frac des Pays de la LoireTo mark the reopening of the Frac site in Carquefou after having been closed for over a year for major work on its collections, the Frac des Pays de la Loire French Regional Collection of Contemporary Art is hosting an exhibition project by artist Claude Closky, entitled X.
“When Laurence Gateau invited me to create an exhibition based on the Frac des Pays de la Loire collection, I designed a project revolving around temporal rhythms, using works from the collection, which I supplemented with pieces loaned from other artists, some of whom are already featured in the Frac and others who are not. What all of these works have in common is the fact that they look at the course of everyday life, the effect of time on work, or that they adopt a specific timeline in their modes of display. The viewing systems implemented throughout the exhibition, from November to June, will give visitors the chance to explore two forms of temporal pace in the work: the portrayal of the passage of time and the time required to accomplish the artistic act.
The installation layout of the works will itself be conditioned by the length of the exhibition, thus allowing each work to have its own rhythm. The sequential parts of a series or individual components of a work will always be presented separately: one a day, one a week, one a month, and so on. This method of displaying each element in turn will highlight the actual duration of the time spent working. And in this staggered arrangement, each piece will carry the same value as the ensemble.
This approach seeks to shed light on how the works are streamed over time rather than their spatial occupation, focusing attention on the actual moment of experience as much as on its occurrence. It gives the installation layout a performative dimension.
In addition, the exhibition will present original works, editions and reproductions of works in equal measure. This equilibrium is a way of setting time before space, and also of relegating to the background an object’s materiality and rarity.
The title X (‘choice’ and ‘multiplication’) gives shape to the spatial aspect of the exhibition display.”
Claude Closky
Artists:
Martine Aballéa
Boris Achour
John Armleder
Silvia Bächli
Julie Béna
Irma Blank
Eva Eszter Bodnar
Alighiero Boetti
Louise Bourgeois
Marie Bourget
Sophie Calle
Hsia-Fei Chang
Claire Chevrier
Claude Closky
Delphine Coindet
Anne‑Lise Coste
Hanne Darboven
David de Tscharner
Dector & Dupuy
Claire Dehove
Denicolai & Provoost
Mirtha Dermisache
Carole Douillard
Ernest T
Richard Fauguet
Hans‑Peter Feldmann
Esther Ferrer
Antonio Gallego
Dora Garcia
Marie-Ange Guilleminot
Raymond Hains
Helene Hellmich
David Horvitz
Pierre Huyghe
Fabrice Hyber
Ana Jotta
Véronique Joumard
Valérie Jouve
On Kawara
Annette Kelm
Martin Kippenberger
Karen Knorr
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Suzanne Lafont
Emmanuelle Lainé
Louise Lawler
Lefevre Jean Claude
Micah Lexier
Hanne Lippard
Peter Liversidge
G. Mahé et J.-P. Lemée
Genêt Mayor
Allan McCollum
Annette Messager
Aleksandra Mir
Jonathan Monk
Mrzyk & Moriceau
Julien Nédélec
Valère Novarina
Camila Oliveira Fairclough
Kristin Oppenheim
Bruno Peinado
Emmanuel Péreire
Benoit Platéus
Eric Poitevin
Hanna Putz & Sophie Thun
Patrick Raynaud
Silvana Reggiardo
Pierre‑Lin Renié
Rafaël Rozendaal
Jean‑Jacques Rullier
Matthieu Saladin
Yvan Salomone
Seth Siegelaub
Alfred Stieglitz
Mladen Stilinović
Batia Suter
Eva Taulois
Niele Toroni
Endre Tót
Penelope Umbrico
Sofi Urbani
Corinne Vionnet
Eric Watier
Elsa Werth
Heidi Wood
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