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Exhibition
L’art dans tous ses états
Whether they symbolise original Chaos, are considered figures of evil, or treated as subjects of research, monsters are timeless. According to Yvanne Chenouf, psychoanalysis and Surrealism in the 20th century led monsters to gradually creep into the individual… Has the man of the 20th century become a monster?
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Frac île-de-france is launching a new review: L’Homme aux cent yeux. This new review – in a nod to its glorious ancestors of the 30s and to the spirit of the Music Hall – proposes an annual programme of live interventions, open to all kinds of artistic creation (acoustic, filmic, choreographic, etc.), by artists invited to occupy the exhibition spaces.
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The works from the frac collection gathered in the display are all clues that remind us of the importance of language in contemporary art. By playing on letters, words, their…
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“Use the forms to pave a path that’ll lead us from the – tensed – space of art to the open, or perhaps freer, street.” Quality Street is Nicolas Chardon’s new project for the Window Display.
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Frac île-de-france, in partnership with the Théâtre des Amandiers in Nanterre, proposes a selection of art videos that echo the Theatre’s programme in the Vidéothèque mobile. Created in 1998 by Fabrice Gygi, this installation made out of simple elements (benches, rows of seats, monitors…), which easily create a resource and meeting space.
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Video projections with works from the frac île-de-france collection, at MuCEM, Marseille.
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Violin and bass amplified
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Why Artivism
Organized in support of the freedom of artistic expression, Why Artivism is a transnational public marathon reading of The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt. The event will deal with the potentialities of Artivism today -he event will deal with the potentialities of Artivism today – artistic research as an instrumental of social transformation – and with the totalitarianism and the current, political situation in Europe, including issues as surveillance, individual and collective freedoms.
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The frac île-de-france was asked by the artist Johanna Fournier to provide pieces from its Collection to be exhibited in the city of Fosses. Five works were chosen in close cooperation with the residents of Fosses, to resonate with Johanna Fournier’s sculpture, for the forecourt of the recently built Pôle Civique in Fosses as part of the 1 per cent-for-art programme.
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Opening on Tuesday 12 May, from 6-9 pm Boyle Family, a mental map, a waterfall, a desert, FM Einheit, an exhibition, an event, a factory paint, Ellen Fullman, Gilles Furtwängler,…
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