From July 1st, 2010
Born in 1974
Lives and works in Brussels, Belgium
Claude
Born in 1975
Lives and works in Brussels, Belgium
We think only in the flat
Patrice Gaillard and Claude produce postures, a term rarely used in sculpture but appropriate to them because their objects so clearly manifest a studied, maintained attitude.
The precision of the pose. Their attitude is all about ergonomics, in a subtle delegation to the economic model in order to achieve optimisation, another term that has become rare in art since we ceased to be modern.
If contemporary art objects often serve as logos, then Patrice Gaillard and Claude propose the option of the island or block, in that the combined elements seem to be part of a synthetic fragment. A collective autonomy, because they pursue a tendency towards the average: a tie will not be an already established model but a morphed version of what already exists. By means of this generic aesthetic, they use wefts and follow patterns in order to attain their favoured field in a lascivious association of tertiary languages. Immediately cold. Discrepancy at its finest.
“We think only in the flat.” Patrice Gaillard and Claude didn’t say this but Jacques Lacan did when uttering one of his island dictums during a seminar. The comparison is my own but that is the effect they create: set-ups in three mental dimensions, their works seem subconscious. In order to formalise, they come back to “entry points” borrowed from computer language, which implies that there is a system behind all this and that the choice is a calculated one, accessible to all.
Jean-Paul Jacquet
Extract from "Texts", Loevenbruck Editions, Paris, 2009
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25-10 / 06-12 - Avenue Actuelle Galerie Loevenbruck, Paris Pictures of the show |
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01-06 / 13-07 - Varnish deserts furnitures club Zoo galerie, Nantes |
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16-05 / 13-07 - Optrium 40mcube, Rennes |
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24-11 / 12-12 - Heidi Musée des Beaux-Arts, Ho Chi Minh City |
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16-04 / 21-04 - Patrice Gaillard & Claude Galerie Corentin Hamel, Paris |
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16-05 / 29-05 - Extra 40mcube, Rennes |
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29-11 / 06-12 - Heidi accès-s, Pau |
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26-03 / 28-03 - Exposition Odense Kunsthal, Odense, Danemark |
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05-02 / 16-05 - Buy-Sellf // Retour vers le Futur CAPC - Musée d'Art Contemporain, Bordeaux |
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21-10 / 25-10 - FIAC 2009 Cour carrée du Louvre, Paris Pictures of the show |
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26-06 / 31-07 - Exposition Galerie Loevenbruck, Paris Pictures of the show |
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08-06 / 13-06 - Volta 5 Markthalle - Viadukstrasse 10, Bâle, Suisse Pictures of the show |
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21-11 / 18-12 - Go Golf (after Tron) Galerie Commune, Tourcoing |
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22-10 / 26-10 - FIAC 2008 Cour carrée du Louvre, Paris Pictures of the show |
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04-09 / 25-10 - Curiositat Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, Antwerp, Belgique |
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04-07 / 31-08 - Toute la Collection du FRAC Île-de-France (ou presque) MAC/VAL, musée d'art contemporain du Val-de-Marne, Vitry-sur-Seine |
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02-06 / 08-06 - Volta Show 04 Ultra Brag, Südquaistrasse, 55, Bâle Pictures of the show |
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18-04 / 21-04 - Art Brussels 2008 Brussels Expo, Halls 1 & 3, Bruxelles |
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01-12 / 20-01 - Série Noire Villa Bernasconi, Lancy, Suisse Pictures of the show |
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10-11 / 26-01 - Interdit aux moins de 18 ans Maison Grégoire, Bruxelles, Belgique |
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08-11 / 22-12 - La Crise du Logement Galerie Dominique Fiat, Paris |
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18-10 / 22-10 - FIAC 2007 Cour carrée du Louvre, stand B07, Paris Pictures of the show |
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19-09 / 06-01 - 00s, the story of a decade that has not yet been named 9e Biennale de Lyon, Lyon |
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30-03 / 05-05 - Speed-dating Galerie Espace Mica, Rennes |
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08-11 / 14-01 - All that is solid melts into Air XXe Ateliers internationaux du FRAC des Pays de la Loire, Carquefou |
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25-02 / 19-03 - Hradacany La Générale, Paris |
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04-10 / 09-10 - Itanomthub Mains d’œuvres, St Ouen |
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09-09 / 09-10 - Produckt and Vision Kunstfabrik, Berlin |
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08-10 / 13-11 - It's hip to be square Zoo galerie, Nantes |
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18-06 / 19-06 - Entrepôt Electro CAPC Musée d’art contemporain, Bordeaux |
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11-10 / 23-10 - We don't play La ménagerie de verre, Paris |
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00-09 / 00-12 - Ma petite entreprise acces-local, CAC Abbaye St André, Meymac |
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05-03 / 05-04 - Un peu plus à l’ouest Friche de Belle de Mai, Marseille |
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01-03 / 19-04 - Nurseryworld galerie Jennifer Flay, Paris |
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04-02 / 09-02 - Fashion week Barcelone |
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29-05 / 06-10 - Multipatchs Le lieu unique, Nantes |
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09-11 / 16-11 - 9+kk Studio Retezova, Prague |
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