CLAUDE CLOSKY, Invisible Books, 2022
set of 5 postcards, cellofan envelope
edition 250
mint
published by Edition Taube, Munich-Zurich
For purchase see:
Taube Books – Claude Closky
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This set of 5 postcards in transparent envelope shows and describes five kinds of books: Unseeable Books, Imperceptible Books, Invisible Books, Ethereal Books and Undetectable Books. None of these categories is present in the depicted book cases. Claude Closky imagined to have them filled with these five kinds of books as a kind of wish to show the “unmanifested” among the incessant flow of images that surrounds us.

CLAUDE CLOSKY, Dada DIY, 2012
chain 71 cm / letters 2 cm, box
mixed media
edition 100
published by Galerie de Multiples, Paris, France

Claude Closky is known for making Appropriation art using advertising, fashion and commodity items. Making a fashionable bracelet and at the same time referring to a protest movement like Dada is a kind of double Appropriation art, i.e.  a kind of contamination of Prada and Dada Do It Yourself. See also Jonathan Monk’s ‘Dada Necklace’ (2012) apparently has responded to this multiple.

History of prices:
Galerie de Multiples, Paris, France      €  80,-  October 2012
Galerie de Multiples, Paris, France      € 100,-  January 2013
Artspace, New York, USA                  € 312,- / US$ 400.- April 2013

CLAUDE CLOSKY, 2000 tentatives de designer un petit circle / 2000 attempts to draw a small circle, 1998
19 x 19 cm
black biro ink on blank invitation card
hand made drawing
edition 2000
published by Maison Levanneur, Chatou, France
condition excellent
uncommon
€ 195,- plus € 15,- Track & Trace EU registered mail
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Ref. Claude Closky: ‘82 Attempts at drawing a circle freehand’, 1991, 21,5 x 14,5 cm, ballpoint pen on sketch pad, 164 pages.