hanks to onestar press, claude Lévêque pays tribute to the Groseille family beer (see the movie “La vie est un long fleuve tranquille”, ed.), punks and bums. Valstar is a collection of press cuttings by the artist. Parish celebrations, country fairs, majorette parades, vacation scenes, supermarkets, accidents, a helicopter crash, the simple meeting/ collision of these images suffices to provoke discomfort in the reader. Without hierarchy or formatting, the artist privileges an aesthetic of rupture.
The cover of Valstar by Claude Lévêque, onestar press
The few texts extracted from articles, relating sordid miscellaneous events and acts of inter-familial torture, intensify the violence of the images. The horror and barbarism hide behind the repertoire of banality. An apology for boredom and disillusion, Valstar is the press revue of a world with no future. It’s where Joe Ramone confides to Paco Rabanne, murmuring to him “Now, I Wanna Sniff Some Glue”. Claire Staebler (Paris)
The above image is the deluxe edition of Valstar, onestar press, 2002, 10 copies accompanied by a signed and numbered certificate.
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