François Curlet, Vintage Discounter, 2012. Installation view. Courtesy the artist and Galeire Micheline Szwajcer. Photo: Sven Laurent
François Curlet
Vintage Discounter
6 December 2012 – 26 January 2013
at Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, Antwerp
“The whole forms a keyboard shortcut to the human food chain, as reflected in the words of French singer Philippe Katerine in relation to the sweaters he purchased at a thrift store: “I love wearing the clothes of dead people.†Here, the film of historical comfort—still present in the memory of the exhibitions Le Vide by Yves Klein (1958) and Le Plein by Arman (1960) at Galerie Iris Clert in Paris—has burst; its fragments are replayed in the lottery of compulsory compositions. They have fallen into another stratum, namely that of vintage, which amnesic archaeologists devour. What remains is poetry, attempting to create a breathing space in the chinks of the profit margin.” – François Curlet
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