until Sunday March 10 2019

Grand-Hornu Images
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7301 Hornu
Belgium

Born in 1967, François Curlet settled in Belgium when he was twenty-two after decisive interludes spent at the National Schools of Fine Arts in Saint-Etienne and Grenoble. For the past thirty years, he has spent most of his time in Brussels, apart from a few, brief evasions. Here, in the wake of the Belgian conceptual artists Jef Geys with whom he developed a human and artistic relationship and the generic figure of Marcel Broodthaers, he has built up several strong friendships with other internationally renowned artists from his own generation, including Michel François and Ann Veronica Janssens. By means of diversion, forgery and atypical usage, the artist got himself noticed through his humour and sense of poetry which virulently question the social, political and economic implications of the everyday objects and ready-made signs produced by our consumer society.