From 2 to 29 August in the Year of Russia - Moscow will host France in a series of exhibitions "What makes art, the one who makes art", organized by the National Center of Contemporary Art and the Regional Fund for Contemporary Art in Brittany

from 2 to 29 August in the Year of Russia - Moscow will host France in a series of exhibitions "What makes the art, the one who makes art", organized by the National Center of Contemporary Art and the Regional Fund for Contemporary Art in Brittany (FRAC Bretagne).

Regional Contemporary Art Fund was created by the French authorities in 1981 during the program to decentralize cultural heritage. To this day, the main objective of the fund is to support contemporary art in the French region through the acquisition of products and orders for artists, promotion of contemporary art and the organization of thematic conferences.

Collection Regional Fund for Contemporary Art in Brittany - one of the first and most representative regional collections in France. Collection consists of almost 3,500 works by over 500 artists. Among them - the work of not only French authors, and artists from other countries, including such renowned masters of modern art, like Vito Acconci, Christian Boltanski, Miroslav Balka, etc. An important part of the collection of FRAC Bretagne - the historic part of showcasing key milestones development of French art in the second half of XX century.

to display in Russia curators selected works of 30 artists, grouped into three thematic exhibitions.

When Painting

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Participants: John M. Armleder, Cecile Bart, Jean-Pierre Bertan, Barry K. Ball, Christian Boltanski, Marie Bourget, Jacques Villegle, Bernard Voigt, Noel Dolly, Remy Zogg, Fabrice Ibert, Bertrand Lavieu, Francois Morellet, Olivier Mosse, Tania Muro, Pascal Pineau, Claude Ryuto, Sarkis Sarkis, Pierre Soulages, Dominique Figarella, Rebecca Horn, Thomas Huber, Remy Tsaugg, Tom Hubert.

Exhibition which opens today at the exhibition hall of the National Centre of Contemporary Art, offers dive into the space of painting, which at the beginning of the XXI century does not cease to demonstrate the viability and amazing variety. By mixing all genres and generations, the spectrum of the selected works is a painting in the classic sense, and experiences of artists, beyond the boundaries of painting. In the dialogue enter the black works by Pierre Soulages, torn posters, Jacques Villegle, spatial deformation of the old (ancestral) technician Jean-Pierre Bertrand, a thorough assessment of Remy Sorted film "House of the hanged man" by Paul Cezanne, the effects of transparency and turbidity scrims Cecile Bart, the measurement of time by Rebecca Horn, songs, animated in the spirit of the game, François Morellet and others. History of painting - this is a common heritage, to which artists eagerly seek to develop their own language. The exhibition includes works by artists of other countries, showing the intersection with the fundamental interests of French art.

exhibition runs until August 29, 2010.

The test of reality

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Participants: Dennis Adams, Vito Acconci, Miroslaw Balka, Christian Boltanski, Rodney Graham, Marcel Dinae, Paul-Armand Zhett, Pierre Paolo Calzolari, Patrice Kara, Jean Le Gac, Tony Matelli, Haim Steinbach

in the hall "shop white" Center for Contemporary Art "Winery" will be the second exhibition of the project - "The test of reality. Works together in this exhibit, pointing to the eternal question of the ability of art and the artist to change the world, affecting themes of memory and social utopia, exploring the various forms of life and transforming the surrounding space, subjecting the elements and forming a special habitat. The exhibition includes addressing the issue of collective memory of the anonymous "Archives" by Christian Boltanski, reflections on the body memory Miroslaw Balka, the monumental Variations on a theme of living space - «Adjustable Wall Bra» Vito Acconci, "Coffin /Couch" Haim Steynbaha, "Mattress" Pier Paolo Calzolari. Fabrice Ebro proposes to populate the world with new "Cupid" - green men-fountains. Patrice Carré launches in flight "Carpet instant action, and Dennis Adams reflects on the problems of the divided space of the city and society. Rodney Graham is landscape upside down - as it appears on the screen of a camera obscura, and Marcel Dinae, preferring "natural" view of nature, let the camcorder to float on the water. Daniel Spoerri, known for his unexpected collections, collecting "Bretagne kit", consisting of vesicles with the waters of the sacred sources of Brittany. The exhibition presents the collection of experimental artists, not only facing the reality of the environment on the strength, but also offering its new form, created with the help of the new art.

exhibition runs until August 25, 2010.

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parallel with the "reality test" on Winzavod in the hall "red shop" an exhibition - a dialogue French and Russian artists of different generations "in the present." The exhibition presents the work of ten artists from different generations, each of which succeeds in its history, and not just art history, and each lives in his time, knowledge of which displayed an image of life and mode of action. Considering the various issues - history and memory, and the perceived reality of playing the role and tools of art - they discover new dimensions to the present time.

Curators Dominique Abensur and Ulrike Kremeyer so characterize the position of each Exhibitors:

Yuri Albert first asks : "What makes art and what makes art". His works examine the parameters of art, as well as its methodology, boundaries, and the principal actors in the installations, in the center of which is the spectator himself.

If art should refuse to change the world, it changes the artist himself to the world. Jean-Luc Moulin reverses advertising and marketing stereotypes that define our system of perception and shape our view of images and objects. Peter White to create designs that can give a historical form of consciousness that exists in the present. Installation Christina Solomoukha revising the urban environment, the landscape which was not only a geographical concept, but also social, political, economic.

David Ter-Oganyan proceed to action. In the acute form of his installations and performances defend the position of civil disobedience, protest and resistance inaction. For Nicolas Flock artistic act - a way to penetrate into the sphere of economy, enrich the scope of design, dance, review the legacy of art history.

Others have adopted the search strategy in the everyday. Pascal Pineau believes that there are hidden the most prominent form of art. His polymorphous works based on the discussions about the history of modern and contemporary painting, represent artisanal or mass production techniques. Olga Chernysheva removes the video, photographs, and paints a scene typical of Russian life, capturing the reality of those fragments, which throws the case . Benoit-Marie Mauriceau itself provokes accidents and surprises: his performances are changing perceptions, as usual given us a space which is filled with traps and ridiculous designs. As Victor Alimpiev, it works with microphenomena in painting and minor details of the relationship between people, making them the subjects of their videos. These records are recorded by the group, combined mechanically movement, which, however, opens up the space where the first expression of sincerity and spontaneity.

exhibition will run until Aug. 25, 2010.

Source: russia-france2010.ru , artinvestment.ru