The above image is the deluxe edition of Valstar, onestar press, 2002, 10 copies accompanied by a signed and numbered certificate.

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.

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his book’s title – or should I say object? – N O N (is it Latin?) can be read from right to left or left to right and mean the same thing. If the word’s meaning is independent of the direction in which weread it, something else is at stake with this word isolated on the page: the empty pages that surround the different signs, words, fragments or phrases of this book (Smoke this page) can be taken for a negation of all context or for a résumé of all the contexts in which these found words figure. Like its first word, the entire book, and this underlines the object nature of the suite of signs as much as that of the visual rhythm of this book, can be read starting at the beginning or the end; this starts, if we keep to five pages, the same way each time: N O N and the mathematical sign for “infinity” alternate. Language is the infinite use of finite means, “finished” can be filed with negation. A day can begin with the first concrete word in the book: CORN FLAKES.
Benedikt Ledebur (Vienna)

Haim Steinbach
N O N
Published September 2002