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	Claude Closky - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Claude Closky is a French artist born in Paris in 1963.
		At first sight, Claude Closky is an artist who rubs shoulders with immateriality.
		Closky takes hold of the most ordinary modes of everyday communication and lays open its forms by discreetly re-articulating it, or redistributing visibility or words.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Claude_Closky (321 words)

	claude closky, flux, dvd'art, art-netart
		Claude Closky’s recent work clings to the hyper-consumption of signs, and particularly advertising signs, among which one will easily include the graphic vocabulary of economics, in so far as one agrees to accept that its significance, its capacity of effective representation of a reality, fades away behind a diverting abstraction, which produces a tapestry effect.
		Closky upgrades these signs by taking into account only the stating of meaning, and its function overwhelming reality, cancelling any message in favour of a decorative reason, whose infinite variations produce only one tireless reproduction of same.
		Beyond the smooth surface of the spheres and vectors, beyond the fluidity of their quiet animation, the violence of a reality cleverly cleared of these invariably positivist representations is revealed: the violence of the obliteration of the possible causes and consequences of these exchanges.
	www.art-netart.com /an/nouveauartnetart/claude_closky_flux_an.htm (213 words)

	Claude Closky \| World News \| Galerie Jennifer Flay, Paris
		Claude Closky se livre à un exercice d'uchronie, livrant par centaines ces messages comme autant d'amorces de fictions, autant de synopsis possibles pour des ouvrages de science-fiction.
		L'oeuvre de Closky s'intéresse à la fonction dévorante des signifiants sur la réalité, considérant l'art comme un questionnement des représentations avant d'être un rapport au réel et à la vérité.
		Le regard critique de Closky s'exerce à cet endroit : un ensemble d'énoncés, au sein d'un cadre immuable et prédéfini (la dépêche AFP, les trente minutes du journal de 20 heures, le ton de voix du speaker, etc.), devient fatalement un motif décoratif, une tapisserie d'informations d'où le sens est banni.
	closky.online.fr /expositions/galerie_jennifer_flay_2002/communique.htm (361 words)

	DIKE BLAIR \| Writing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Because Closky often lightly tailors his work to specific contexts, TPI is probably a small dig at America, the land of abundant and vapid TV.
		Closky had always used a computer, and in the mid '90s, when CD-ROMs and the World Wide Web became part of his toolbox, his art found a medium that was a perfect fit.
		Closky is brilliant at both playing with and being played by the culture of media.
	www.thing.net /~lilyvac/writing02.html (944 words)

	Royal The Hague - What's on - The Hague - Exhibitions at the GEM
		This winter at GEM: the film Journal by award-winning filmmaker Claude Closky and a retrospective of the work of Aline Thomassen, to coincide with her exhibition in Marrakech, being staged as part of the celebrations to mark 400 years of relations between Morocco and the Netherlands.
		Journal is a 24-minute account of the world Closky has observed at his desk over the past three months, consisting of rapidly changing images and sounds (a different sound for each image) from the media.
		GEM is holding a retrospective of the work of Aline Thomassen, to coincide with her exhibition in Marrakech, being staged as part of the celebrations to mark 400 years of relations between Morocco and the Netherlands.
	www.holland.com /denhaag/gb/whatson/thehague/gem.html (508 words)

	DIKE BLAIR \| Writing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Closky's sites usually involve some kind of "list" making and/or some wry usage of marketing lingo that is simultaneously absurd and poignant.
		Closky's sites and CD-Roms (which he makes with the assistance of programmers and are sometimes adapted from non-digital works) are direct extensions of his work in other media.
		But what I particularly like about the evolution of Closky's work, and where his art starts to feel expansive and global, is that he has progressed through the Gaulish tendency to subordinate the tactile and the retinal (the sensual) to the theoretical/critical and allows sensualityalbeit a mediated and distanced oneto function on a primary level.
	www.thing.net /~lilyvac/writing10.html (820 words)

	homestudio - revue audiolab (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		But by endlessly deferring a final or culminating question, he preempts the anticipated tallying, crystallization, and definitive determination: the implications and consequences of one's responses to this farrago of options cannot be systematized into fixed or conclusive interpretation.
		Closky's anomalous twist to the familiar pop-psychological quiz privileges the act of choosing, for every answer is followed by another apparently randomly generated question.
		This, together with the subtly deranged playfulness that stems from his engaging affection for the absurdity of life, its mundane values and ideals, has resulted in a body of work at once singular and unmistakably his.
	homestudio.thing.net /revue/content/closky.htm (767 words)

	French Culture \| Visual Art \| Claude Closky: Television (Sept. 12-Dec. 30, 2003) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Location One is pleased to present Television, a new multimedia solo installation by French artist Claude Closky.
		One of the most innovative emerging artists of his generation, Closky's imagery draws on mass media culture with sources of material ranging from everyday life to images taken from fashion magazines, billboards and television.
		Claude Closky was born in 1963 in Paris.
	www.frenchculture.org /art/events/03closky.html (453 words)

	Paris en creation - Claude Closky (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Closky collects images, photographs, and sounds which we are constantly exposed to by the mass media, and visualizes contemporary illusions.
		August Vacation, 1997-1998, video projection of digital images, 60 min., Closky reveals the hidden desires of the French, found in ordinary advertisement, using continuous images of blue sky and ocean and beautiful people.
		Claude Closky : 12 h = 10 h
	www.muse.co.jp /paris/artists/closky/closky_e.html (93 words)

	MODERNA MUSEET - The 1st at Moderna: typO-Writing with Style
		Playing with Western notions of what is "Chinese" and "exotic", the signs that appear on the screen when we write on a standard Western keyboard are the artist's own personal memories of Chinese calligraphy, something which he himself does not master.
		Claude Closky has developed a series of fonts named after ski resorts, making subtle visual hints towards the act of skiing.
		Here Closky has reversed the corporate practice of having a font substitute a logo and instead uses logos as individual signs.
	www.modernamuseet.se /v4/templates/template1.asp?lang=Eng&id=2229 (678 words)

	Fundació Joan Miró
		Claude Closky (Paris, 1963) likes to question the use of signs and make a play on their appearance.
		Drawing, books, video, photography, objects, sound and computers are different media – or, rather, different means of expression – that Closky uses according to what he wants to say.
		As Fréderic Paul so rightly says in his book on the artist published by Éditions Hazan in 1999, “His entire work is rooted in a world overdetermined by the encoded use of language and by the hyper-encrypted expansion of commerce and publicity.
	www.bcn.fjmiro.es /angles/_exposicions/_espai13/03-04/uclosky.html (513 words)

	closky- Sepola Search 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Closky tue Paul--kill de child with your, tomahawk dar: 'twasn't you, no--ole Pete allus...
		Claude Closky (French, 1963) Find works of art, auction results and sale prices at galleries and auctions worldwide...
		Lynn Closky, 1302 Gill Court, stated that their biggest issue is that the slab was poured approximately...
	www.sepola.com /closky.html (1110 words)

	Introduction to Do you want love or lust? by Claude Closky (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Self-help guides, New Age divinations, magazine quizzes, psychoanalysis, rituals of confession and expiation (religious and other), these multiple modes and models for self-scrutiny entertain as they enlighten -- or is it the converse?
		Closky's early works played with that seemingly irresistible desire to construct taxonomic systems, and with the equally ubiquitous wish to identify order to any apparently inchoate or amorphous entity -- or, with its converse, an instinctive compulsion to disrupt the systematic by taking it to its logical if absurd conclusion.
		The graceful deprecatory wit that informs much of his art places it in a lineage that stems as much from Marcel Broodthaers and Ed Ruscha as from Minimal and Conceptual art, from which it also derives certain strategies and stylistic influences.
	www.diacenter.org /closky/intro.html (775 words)

	Claude CLOSKY "Quit Clicking and Surf" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		He began counting with pathetically simple means, a pencil and a piece of paper, doing collages of similar scenes from films, or compiling the hard-core bits from erotic novels (Vacation in Arachon).
		But Closky also seems to follow the Indymedia slogan, "Don't hate the media, become the media!" He doesn't just carry out a détournement of the images that inundate us, but also moves in the opposite direction, infiltrating the media to produce work from the inside.
		What counts here is the contract established between the seller and the buyer, the certificate attached to the work, or simply the bill made out by the artist, and not the medium of the goods being exchanged...
	www.arpla.univ-paris8.fr /~canal2/archeo/closky/index2.html (1853 words)

	Rhizome.org: Do You Want Love or Lust? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Self-help guides, New Age divinations, magazine quizzes, psychoanalysis, rituals of confession and expiation (religious and other), these multiple modes and models for self-scrutiny entertain as they enlighten — or is it the converse?
		Closky's early works played with that seemingly irresistible desire to construct taxonomic systems, and with the equally ubiquitous wish to identify order to any apparently inchoate or amorphous entity — or, with its converse, an instinctive compulsion to disrupt the systematic by taking it to its logical if absurd conclusion.
		Claude Closky was born and works in Paris.
	rhizome.org /object.rhiz?1827 (805 words)

	Claude Closky - Exhibitions
		Claude Closky Do you want love or lust?
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	www.artincontext.org /artist/c/claude_closky/selected_exhibitions.htm (39 words)

	Claude Closky: Do you want love or lust?
		Closky, who often draws on mass media as sources for his work, presents a seemingly endless series of questions addressed directly to the website visitors.
		The artist chose teasing questions of a type exemplified in popular magazine quizzes that promise to help us understand ourselves better.
		The site is meant to suggest the seductive, yet necessarily inconclusive and even futile tenor of the questions we are confronted with daily, questions which, though often futile or absurd, are still entertaining and enlightening.
	www.artincontext.org /listings/pages/exhib/z/lt13hdhz/press.htm (97 words)

	Heather Felty Kouris
		In Hello and Welcome, Claude Closky shows how we look for friendly familiarity when shopping - the welcoming gesture provides a comfortable state in which to consume.
		Focusing on the stereotypes we see in advertising and the repetitive nature of many commercials, Closky points out our dulled awareness of how we unconsciously try to fit into the models our society produces.
		In the early 1990s, Sprite, a soft drink division of the Coca-Cola Company, began an anti-marketing campaign aimed at teenagers who were hip to the marketing "enemy." As years progressed, these youngsters became skeptical of such promotion.
	www.apexart.org /exhibitions/felty.htm (1273 words)

	Parachute: Contemporary Art Magazine: Claude Closky: une dehumanisation dont vous etes le heros.@ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Claude Closky: une dehumanisation dont vous etes le heros.
		C'est en une parfaite concordance avec l'epoque, la mode, la morale, la passion, selon les termes baudelairiens, que l'on aborde les travaux de Claude Closky, tant nous sommes captives par les processus, methodes, rangements, taxinomies, classements et categorisations que celui-ci applique a diverses sortes d'objets ou de situations.
		Lorsqu'il nous montre Toutes les facons de fermer une caisse en carton (1989), c'est-a-dire seize fois, ni plus ni moins, ou Tout ce que je peux faire avec 5 francs (1993), c'est-a-dire au moins 330 facons de disposer les pieces de monnaie, ou encore...
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:30141952&refid=holomed_1 (207 words)

	Glass Fab: Three Exhibitions of Artists Working in Glass - Gandy Gallery - Absolutearts.com
		Closky is certainly one of the most mysterious actors of the french scene.
		Using with pertinence one medium and after an other, questioning about image statute, play with it, making transfers and interpretations but always seeking meaning.
		http://closky.online.fr Pour Glassfab, Claude Closky has imagined Glasscone The first Glasscone in crystal we can suck.
	www.absolutearts.com /cgi-bin/news/arts-news-elaborate.cgi?output_number=20&find=5387 (637 words)

	Dia bookshop: category name (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		However, because they have been less documented, Oldenburg's happenings and performances have not been fully integrated into the critical discourse surrounding his work.
		Claude Closky's work takes a variety of forms and incorporates almost all the means and ways of expression available to this modern dabbler: collage on paper, video encrustation, folding paper, sound recording, drawings, and silkscreen prints, etc. Closky, it seems, never aims for gratuitous spectacular effects.
		Michael Clegg & Martin Guttmann have specialized in investigating historical topics, including the institution of the library and the tradition of portraiture.
	www.diabooks.org /diabooks/category.jsp?categoryID=105&page=12 (945 words)

	French Culture \| French Contemporary Art in US: Archive Sept. 1, 2002- Sept. 1, 2003 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Group Exhibition with Louise Bourgeois, Claude Closky, Jochen Gerz, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Marie-Ange Guilleminot, Yves Klein, Matthieu Laurette, and Anri Sala.
		Selected for the different ways in which they explore light as medium and metaphor, the eight works offer a variety of experiences and interpretations.
		Baudevin works with graphic design from industrial packaging, Mercier is interested in the relationship between mass-produced consumer objects and the history of twentieth century art and design.
	www.frenchculture.org /art/events/0203archivec.html (4741 words)

	Claude Closky - Le 11 Aout 1999; Author: Closky, Claude; Paperback
		Claude Closky - Le 11 Aout 1999; Author: Closky, Claude; Paperback
		> Claude Closky - Le 11 Aout 1999
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	www.netstoreusa.com /pmbooks/291/291268417X.shtml (138 words)

	Events: TELEVISION @ Location One
		created for Television, others borrowed by Closky from the web.
		One of the most innovative emerging artists of his generation, Closky's
		Sydney Biennial, the Taipei Biennial, and in exhibitions at the Centre
	www.16beavergroup.org /events/archives/000456print.html (406 words)

	Artifact: Full Record for Claude Closky : do you want love or lust?
		Description: Launched on 11th December 1997, this Web project was commissioned by Dia: Chelsea (formerly called the Dia Center for the Arts) in New York.
		In a text based site French artist Claude Closky presents thousands of questions taken from popular magazines.
		A short introductory essay to the project, written by Lynne Cook, is also provided.
	www.artifact.ac.uk /displayoai.php?id=2133 (142 words)

	Gallery 9 - Interview with Claude Closky (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Philippe Vergne: Would you rather spend vacation in Corpus Christi (Texas) with Andy Warhol or in Bali with Naomi Campbell, and why?
		Claude Closky: As Neiman Marcus® says: "Art provides great table conversation", but as Clairol® advises: "I will follow my "Natural Instincts®" and invite Naomi to come with me to Bali.
		First published by Gallery 9/Walker Art Center for Calendar 2000 by Claude Closky.
	gallery9.walkerart.org /midtext.html?id=138 (191 words)

	3 Exhibitions Magasin Grenoble - Pressrelease
		The Ann Lee project is based on an animated character, whose rights have been bought by the initiating artists, each of whom has created a film that adds to or extends those that already exist.
		Exhibition conceived by Claude Closky with 60 artists
		From 21 January 2006, the works created by the sixty invited artists for the website homepage will be shown at MAGASIN.
	www.undo.net /cgi-bin/undo/pressrelease/pressrelease.pl?id=1138361490 (802 words)

	YouWorkForThem \| Magazines: Textfield III
		Contributors include: Andreas Angelidakis, AUDC, Nina Jan Beier, Andrew Burgess, Claude Closky, Trinie Dalton, etc....
		Andreas Angelidakis, AUDC, Nina Jan Beier, Andrew Burgess, Claude Closky, Trinie Dalton, John Freedom, Marie Jager, Peter Kim, John Knuth, Marc Kremers, Gonzalo Lebrija, Vincent Lehrkopf, Marie Jan Lund, Doreen Morrissey, Angelo Plessas, Rafael Rozendaal, Eduardo Sarabia, Nikola Tosic, Michael Wells, Sandy Yang and Amy Yao.
		Textfield is a new magazine that addresses the outside realms of design and communication.
	youworkforthem.com /product.php?sku=P0478 (249 words)

	News Detail - USC Roski School of Fine Arts
		Artists: David Bunn, Claude Closky, Nico Dock, Rainer Ganahl, Rodney Graham, Raymond Hains, Jonathan Monk, Simon Morris, Allen Ruppersberg, Joe Scanlan, Tlfrique, Klaus Scherbel, William Wegman
		Artists' Books: Barbara Bloom, David Bunn, Claude Closky, Meg Cranston, Rainer Ganahl, Rodney Graham, Raymond Hains, Sol Lewitt, Gilles Mah, Jonathan Monk, Simon Morris, Hermann Pitz, Richard Prince, Allen Ruppersberg, Klaus Scherbel...
		Collecting books, compiling bibliographies, making lists in libraries, re-writing existing texts, planning to write a book one day, or just sitting quietly and reflecting - these are some of the methodologies that demonstrate the close relationship some artists have with the book and the scene of writing.
	finearts.usc.edu /news/detail.cfm?id=105&printer=1 (199 words)

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