new generation - FRAC Nord

PRESS RELEASE
“NEW GENERATION” EXHIBITION
17/05/14 TO 31/12/14
NEW GENERATION
17 MAY 2014 TO 31 DECEMBER 2014
FONDS RÉGIONAL D’ART CONTEMPORAIN, NORD-PAS DE CALAIS, DUNKIRK
OPENING: 17 MAY 2014
CURATOR: HILDE TEERLINCK
With:
Adel Abdessemed, Boris Achour, Emmanuelle
Antille, Nina Beier, Bless, Victor Boullet, Elina
Brotherus, Angela Bulloch, Tom Burr, Anne
Collier, Matali Crasset, Robert Doisneau,
David Douard, Ruth Ewan, Jenny Gage, Ryan
Gander, Georg Gatsas, Daiga Grantina, Ali
Hanoon, Annika Von Hausswolff, Sarah Jones,
Richard Kalvzar, Anna Klamroth, Klara Liden,
Ken Lum, Helen Marten, Liza May Post, Ciprian
Muresan, Arno Nollen, Nomeda & Gediminas
Urbonas, David Noonan, Elodie Pong, L.A.
Raeven, Torbjørn Rødland, Collier Schorr,
Hedi Slimane, Meredyth Sparks, Martine
Stig, Mika Tajima, Gerald Van Der Kaap, Daan
Van Golden, Erik Van Lieshout, Frederik Van
Simaey, Mark Wallinger, Gillian Wearing,
Stephen Willats, Margot Zanni.
Elina BROTHERUS, Der Wanderer 4, 2004
Colour chromogenic photograph, 105x119 cm
Courtesy H+F COLLECTION / © ADAGP Paris, 2014
Frac Nord-Pas de Calais’ second
exhibition since its opening, NEW
GENERATION occupies the Forum
on Level 4.
Construction, dissolution,
disconnection and reconnection of
identities, emancipation, independence.
The implicit postulates of adolescence
are tottering. Unable to put a
singular case in the plural, a typology
cannot exist if a vision of dissimilar
beings is not furnished. The artists
presented here endeavour to express
this situation. Their work brings out
the rituals, roles and life paths of the
members of this generation. This
taking stock of their reality offers
in addition specific and subjective
perceptions by a section of society, the
New Generation.
The exhibition is made up of four
parts: music, rebellion, fashion and
passions. The first, devoted to the
influence of music, sees the way
teenagers wear their musical tastes
on their sleeve as a vector of their
identity. The second theme underscores
how adolescence is associated with
concepts of violence and revolution
(sexual, ideological, political, etc.).
The desire to define certain positions
and to champion them and forms
of oppression which encourage
rebellion are some of the sources of
the tensions at play. Opening up to
fashion also is not without significance.
Adolescents prefer to wear a garment
whose ornamentation functions as
a sign of recognition. Finally, the
last theme examines adolescents’
particular conception of the world
and the relations it establishes between
macrocosm and microcosm in human
society. Teenagers’ relations with
their bodies and minds take various
forms: self-destruction, exclusion,
stigmatisation, emotional repression,
rebirth and self-liberation.
This exhibition consists of a selection of
works from the FRAC collection. This
selection, even as it supplies a historical
grounding, makes it possible to come
up with a new approach to the subject,
demonstrating that Frac Nord-Pas de
Calais is attentive to social, political,
aesthetic and ethical questions. Visitors’
sensibility to various issues concerning
the new generation is touched, giving
rise to reflection, discussions and actions
around this topic.
PRESS RELEASE
“NEW GENERATION” EXHIBITION
17/05/14 TO 31/12/14
ELSEWHERE AT THE FRAC/AP2
Belvedere
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VITRINE
CINema
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Starting in 2014, the programming in
the FRAC/AP2’s exhibition galleries
will become autonomous. Here is a
summary of upcoming events in the
different spaces.
EXPO 1 and EXPO 2: Between
the semi-permanent furniture in the
Café, Module #3 and Beautiful Curtain
#1, designed by Lang/Baumann, and
Gabriel Kuri’s artwork-coat check
Items in Care of Items, the EXPO 1
space initiates, with the exhibition
“Constellations”, the discussion of
the make-up of Frac Nord-Pas de
Calais collection by exhibiting only
its acquisitions. EXPO 2, whose walls
are covered with the semi-permanent
installation by Latifa Echakhch, A
chaque stencil une révolution, will for its
part invite Isa Genzken’s work Blick to
enter into dialogue with it.
SALON: Matthew Darbyshire’s semipermanent installation The Soft Shape
Room will host presentations of work
from the collections of individuals and
partner institutions, such as a selection of
objects representative of the personality
of Valentine Vanesse, author of the blog
www.helloitsvalentine.fr; the exhibition
‘Modes appliquées’, which will include
textiles and children’s toys on loan
from the Château de Louvignies (BE);
personal effects of youth in the region as
part of a novel presentation organised by
Morgan Pavaut entitled ‘Les essentiels’.
VITRINE: This space, devoted to the
FRAC’s off-site projects, will present
numerous exhibitions: ‘Using Images’
brings together a body of work from the
Centre
Régional de la Photographie Nord-Pas
de Calais in Douchy-les-Mines on the
topic of re-appropriation (curator: Erik
Verhagen, art historian); a Carte Blanche
to the photographer Marie-Noël Boutin
by invitation of the Château Coquelle
in Rosendaël; an exhibition organised
by an association in Lille of independent
curators on the topic of immigration;
and works by young artists in every
discipline.
CINEMA: Every two weeks, visitors
will be able to discover a unique video
or programmes of three to ten different
videos. These are from the Frac NordPas de Calais collection, but also from
the Centre Régional de la Photographie
Nord-Pas de Calais in Douchy-lesMines, Fresnoy – Studio national des
arts contemporains in Tourcoing, SMAK
in Ghent (BE), Argos – Centre for Art
and Media in Brussels (BE), and the
Musée des Arts Contemporains of the
Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles (MACs)
in Boussu (BE).
PRESS RELEASE
“NEW GENERATION” EXHIBITION
17/05/14 TO 31/12/14
INFORMATION
Address of the Frac :
503 Avenue des Bancs de Flandres
59140 Dunkirk, France
[email protected]
www.fracnpdc.fr
CONTACTS :
COORDINATION ET
RELATIONS PRESSE
Agence Heymann Renoult
Associées
Presse nationale, régionale
et internationale
—
Sarah Heymann et Eléonora
Alzetta
e.alzetta@heymann-renoult.
com
www.heymann-renoult.com
+33 (0)1 44 61 76 76
Presse anglaise
—
Agence Arts Europe
Kathryn Hone
[email protected]
+44 (0) 783 3595 626
How to Get to the
Frac:
By Car (from the highway):
A16/E40: exit 62 Dunkerque
Centre – follow “Pôle Art
Contemporain: FRAC–LAAC”
A25: follow RN 225 – at the
roundabout follow “Pôle Art
Contemporain: FRAC–LAAC”
By Bus (from Dunkirk train
station):
Line 8 (the “Escale” stop)
Partners:
Support for Frac Nord-Pas
de Calais comes from the
Ministère de la Culture et de
la Communication/Direction
générale de la création artistique,
the Direction régionale des affaires
culturelles Nord-Pas de Calais,
the Conseil Régional Nord-Pas
de Calais, the Dunkerque Grand
Littoral/Communauté urbaine, the
Ville de Dunkerque, the Conseil
Général du Nord, the Conseil
Général du Pas-de-Calais and the
Rectorat de l’Académie de Lille.