Claude
Lévêque
Claude
Lévêque
Lévêque
Using a minimalist and often autobiographical language, Claude Lévêque explores childhood memories and the codes of society, staging them in sensory and poetic installations. Between light and shadow, individual and universal mythologies, the artist’s works, which do not conceal his disillusionment with the world, seek above all to destabilise us.
Lévêque studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Bourges in the 1970s before moving to the Paris region, where he immersed himself in punk and new wave music, experimental cinema and counter-cultures. At first, he was interested in objects before gradually turning away from them in order to work only with sound and light, especially neon lights. The artist draws inspiration from specific places, appropriating their worlds with the aim of turning them into mind spaces, sources of both gentleness and anxiety.
Lévêque’s works in the Pinault Collection were shown in 2009 during the "Qui a peur des artistes ?" (“Who’s Afraid of Artists?”) exhibition at the Palais des Arts in Dinard.
Lévêque studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Bourges in the 1970s before moving to the Paris region, where he immersed himself in punk and new wave music, experimental cinema and counter-cultures. At first, he was interested in objects before gradually turning away from them in order to work only with sound and light, especially neon lights. The artist draws inspiration from specific places, appropriating their worlds with the aim of turning them into mind spaces, sources of both gentleness and anxiety.
Lévêque’s works in the Pinault Collection were shown in 2009 during the "Qui a peur des artistes ?" (“Who’s Afraid of Artists?”) exhibition at the Palais des Arts in Dinard.
