Flow (2002-2004)
By Claude Closky
Claude Closky, ‘Flow,’ 2002-2004, art-netart, Paris. Video, silent. Coproduction art-netart, Noël Solutions, realisation Sandrine Rivière, unlimited duration. Claude Closky’s 2000s 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. flux uses in a simplified way, reduced with the logotypic sweetening of forms inherited from a modernistic geometric abstraction (circle and line), one of the characteristic patterns of contemporary economics, consisting in representing displacements, material and immaterial, between masses. In extracting these fluxes from any intention and any context, Closky makes their movements intransitive until absurdity, but al…
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