James Fuentes LLC is pleased to announce Claude Lévêque"s forthcoming solo exhibition LES ROSES
BLANCHES. The exhibition is in collaboration with Galerie Kamel Mennour, Paris.
“Scattered across the floor, in the installation LES ROSES BLANCHES, are plates, cups, cutlery and
disposable foo... Read more
James Fuentes LLC is pleased to announce Claude Lévêque"s forthcoming solo exhibition LES ROSES
BLANCHES. The exhibition is in collaboration with Galerie Kamel Mennour, Paris.
“Scattered across the floor, in the installation LES ROSES BLANCHES, are plates, cups, cutlery and
disposable food packaging – all entirely white. Powder and broken windscreen glass herald death. The
items, scattered in a state of distress, refer to the collective experience of mourning; their colour evokes
the whiteness of a shroud. The whole is specked with swirling spots of light, produced by a disco ball
that gives a vertiginous sensation. The melancholic and piercing singing of a child"s voice permeates
us. The song speaks of the death of a mother who takes with her the last white roses brought by her
son. The fragile, disposable and standardised nature of the items on the floor provides a stark contrast
to the evocation of disappearance.”
Claude Lévêque represnted France in the 53rd Venice Biennial in 2009. Most recently he created the
scenography for Angelin Preljocaj’s ballet# at the Opéra Bastille (Paris). Currently Lévêque has a solo
exhibtion on view at Verrière Hermès, (Belgium). Forthcoming solo exhibitons include; Centre régional
d"art contemporain Languedoc Roussillon (Sète), Galerie Kamel Mennour (Paris), Galerie Duplex
(Sarajevo) & Cabaret Voltaire (Zürich).
