François Curlet




Out of Space
2013
Copper, paint
92 x 61 cm

“The industrial form likes to be cut, to be chosen, reproduced, distributed, and sold everywhere. To achieve this, it needs the falls of matter outside the frame of its own form to exist. Its backstage colleagues, against shadow forms, once again become extras and actresses on the copper draped on the fabrics of an imaginary art deco,” says François Curlet to explain Out of Space, a series of copper paintings that oscillates between repetition and uniqueness. And the French artist marks them with an almost invisible line, a kind of graffiti that fights against the dictatorship of the brand. “A spray can marks them on the screen for a particular dance far from the mass distribution of the first chosen ones,” says Curlet.