Frédéric Clavère
Frédéric Clavère is an Astérides Resident in 2006. The archives of Triangle-Astérides do not allow for the determination of the exact dates or the duration of this residency in 2006.
Frédéric Clavère was born in Toulouse (FR) in 1962, he lives and works in Marseille (FR)
Frédéric Clavère paints calvaries.And suffering. And violence. He doesn’t know what this does for him. He knows he needs it. He builds his paintings around myths and mythology. He works around the secret. Around the secret and the unspeakable. He isn’t the first.
Frédéric Clavère works around a knowledge acquired through the secret. He says painting is obscene and can surprsie him when he’s forgotten it. He seeks nothing. Or else he seeks something on time’s side. On the side of time and the secret.
Excerpt from Jean-Pierre Ostende’s text in Lundi Jamais, ex. cat., Galerie du Tableau, Marseilles and Kunsthaus Hamburg, Hamburg, 1998
Frédéric Clavère’s work is on display during the exhibitions Un été à Nantes, 1999; Art et bande dessinée, 2000; Fictionary, 2000 and Trabendo, 2003.