20th century AD

CASINO-LUXEMBOURG

Born in 1939 in Liege, Belgium, Jacques Charlier is a sedentary artist, showing mostly in his own country. This first retrospective, which brings together some sixty pieces, pays overdue homage to a body of work that knows few limits on form (painting, music, assemblage, photography, Super 8 film, performance). Indeed, Charlier's La surface de l'art, a work realized in 1997 by cleaning a rectangular patch of the Casino's facade (making it look as if a painting had just been removed), suggests a devotion to satirical explorations of the ways in which images accrue meaning - putting him squarely in the tradition of compatriot Marcel Broodthaers, with whom he rubbed elbows in the late '60s. Oct. 23, 1999-Jan. 5, 2000.

Translated from French by Jeanine Herman.

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