| Dates: | born 1953
| | Biography: | 1953 Born in Nevers, France.
Lives and works in Seine-Saint-Denis,
France
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
1998 Plus de Lumiere, Villa Arson, Nice
The World is the Game, La Villeneuve, Le
Magasin, Grenoble, FRAC, Nantes
Game's Over, Galerie du jour agnes b,
Paris
1997 Troubles, Kasseler Kunstverein,
Kassel
Fri Art, Kunsthalle Fibourg, Suisse
Ecole des Beaux-Arts
1996-97 Claude Leveque, Galerie Toxic
New Art, Luxembourg
1996 My Way, ARC Musee d'Art
Moderne, Paris
Galerie du jour agnes b, Paris
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
1998 Biennale Internationale de
Montreal, Montreal
Premises, Storefront for Art and
Architecture, Guggenheim Museum,
New York
Gare de l'Est, Casino, Luxembourg
Cet ete-la, Centre d'Art Contemporain,
Sete
Do All Oceans Have Walls? Kunsthalle
Bremen, Bremen
Threshold, The Power Plant, Toronto
1997 Objects, Images, Scenes, La
Magasine, Grenoble
Les nouveaux commerces-Art dans la
ville, Le Havre
Panique au Faubourg, Ouartier des
Recollets, Montreal
Foire de Chicago, Galerie du Jour Agnes
b, Paris
1995 "On Board," La Biennale di
Venezia 46,
Esposizione Internazionale d'Arte, Venice
1994 l’Hiver de l'Amour, ARC Musee d'Art
Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris;
PS1 Museum, New York
FURTHER READING
My Way (exh. cat.), ARC Musee d'Art
Moderne, Paris 1996
Balkenhol, B. and K. Rahn. Troubles
(exh. cat.), Editions Kunstverein, Kassel
1997 | | | Source: | "Trace, 1st Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art", Festival catalogue | | | Date of source: | 1999 |
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| | Description: | Claude Lévêque transforms architectural
space with light and colour. His
installations, which are site-specific,
render familiar environments ambiguous
and disorienting. Reflective surfaces
where we least expect them bring
movement into a room while dissolving
the stability of walls and ceilings.
For TRACE the artist has developed a
piece called War Games. Upon entering
the main doors to the exhibition the
visitor is confronted by a barrage of light.
This luminous assault is entirely
unexpected: the windows and glass
doors of the gallery space are covered
with a dark grey solar filter, mirrored on
one side. Leveque has covered a false
ceiling with reflective foil, and all the
walls are painted with bright aluminium
coloured paint.
On the wall facing the entrance three
rotating lamps project bright white
flashes. The entire inner surface of the
room reflects this intense light, which
appears to rebound endlessly into space. | | Description Source: | "Trace, 1st Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art", Festival catalogue | | Description Source Date: | 1999 | | Gender: | male | | Type: | person |
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