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31/5/2012

Songe d'une nuit d'ete (Midsummer Night's Dream)

Frac Pays de la Loire, Carquefou

From early April to early November 2012, thirteen sites in the Loire Valley will play host to around one hundred artworks from the collections of the Frac Centre, the Frac des Pays de la Loire and the Frac Poitou-Charentes, as well as new offerings, in an ambitious trail combining contemporary art and heritage.

The trail, entitled Songe d’une nuit d’été (Midsummer Night’s Dream), explores artists’ fascination with the world of dreams. This theme, the stuff of mythological history (Morpheus is a case in point) and fairytales (such as Sleeping Beauty or Snow White), also inspired Renaissance artists who depicted indolent beauty in the form of sleeping Venuses.

Present in classical art history, the theme of dreams enjoyed unprecedented development during the twentieth century. Whether in the Surrealists of the 1920s and their fascination with the unfettered imagination of dreams or in Pop art — with its most famous exponent, Andy Warhol, filming a young poet asleep — the sleep, dreams and oneiric visions born of our unconscious at rest have fuelled artists’ inspiration and given rise to great masterpieces of contemporary art.

Through thematic units, the exhibition explores artists’ various approaches to and questions on the great mystery of sleep, a state that allows the emergence of ghostly visions and ideas now frightening now fascinating. Natural or artificial sleep (hypnosis, meditation) that gives rise to dreams and nightmares offers a gateway to the unconscious, a fertile breeding-ground for the imagination.

The exhibition also evokes the intimate zone of sleep and shows sleeping bodies, disturbing images of confusion with a more eternal rest. It also looks at sleeping areas, both individual and collective (dormitories), architecture designed to accommodate sleeping bodies (beds, capsules, etc.) and insomnia that is conducive to urban excesses. Finally it explores childhood, a time when dreams and reality merge, and revisits famous myths and legends associated with sleep.

Exhibitions locations:
Frac des Pays de la Loire, Carquefou;
Château d’Angers;
City of Thouars (La Chapelle Jeanne d’Arc art centre, Musée Henri Barré and the Galerie of the chateau’s stables);
Château d’Oiron;
Fontevraud Abbey;
City of Chinon (Musée d’Art et d’Histoire and Galerie Contemporaine);
Frac Poitou-Charentes, Linazay;
Domaine de Chaumont-sur-Loire;
Château de Chambord;
Frac Centre, Orléans.



Artists (provisional listing):

Martine Aballéa, Boris Achour, Saâdane Afif, Jean-Michel Alberola, Archigram (Peter Cook), Architecture Principe (Claude Parent, Paul Virilio), Pierre Ardouvin, Asymptote, Neal Beggs, Christophe Berdaguer & Marie Péjus, Rut Blees Luxemburg, Sylvie Blocher, Bernhard Johannes Blume, Christian Boltanski, Monica Bonvicini, Michel de Broin, Angela Bulloch, Gérard Byrne, Bernard Calet, Sophie Calle, Mircea Cantor, Davide Cascio, James Casebere, Chanéac, Cloud 9 (Enric Ruiz-Geli), Nathan Coley, Constant, Coop Himmelb(l)au, Marc Couturier, Justus Dahinden, Philippe Decrauzat, Guy Debord, Marie-Céline Delibiot, Brice Dellsperger, Liz Deschenes, DOGMA, Lili D ujourie, Hubert Duprat, Christelle Familiari, Ant Farm, Bernard Faucon, Valérie Favre, Spencer Finch, Alain Fleisher, Yona Friedman, Hiromi Fujii, Dora Garcia, Gérard Gasiorowski, Karim Ghelloussi, Piero Gilardi, Liam Gillick, Marco Godinho, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Gramazio & Kohler & Raffaello d’Andrea, James Guitet, Pascal Häusermann, Haus-Rucker-Co, Bernard Hafner, Mona Hatoum, Jim Hodges, Jean-Charles Hue, Eilfried Huth et Günther Domenig, IaN+, Wendy Jacob, Ann Veronica Janssens, Anne-Marie Jugnet, Sieglinde Klupsch, Jiri Kovanda, Yvan Le Bozec, Jean Le Gac, Claude Lévêque, Loriot et Mélia, Goshka Macuga, Stéphane Magnin, Henri Michaux, Minimaforms (Theo Spyropoulos) et Krzysztof Wodiczko, Jean-Luc Moulène, Tania Mouraud, Patrick Neu, Nox (Lars Spuybroek), OMA (Rem Koolhaas), Philippe Oudard, Claude Parent, Florence Paradeis, Javier Pérez, Drago Persic, Gianni Pettena, Pierre et Gilles, Jack Pierson, Présence Panchounette, Arthur Quarmby, Jean-Pierre Raynaud, Jean Renaudie, Aldo Rossi, Allen Ruppersberg, Claude Rutault, Sam Samore, Bojan Sarcevic, Sarkis, Miri Segal, Bruno Serralongue, Charles Simonds, Pierrick Sorin, Ettore Sottsass, Simon Starling, Georgina Starr, A.J.S. Aérolande (Antoine Stinco), Benjamin Swaim, Pierre Székely, Marion Tampon-Lajarriette, Mario Terzik, Patrick Tosani, Daniel Tremblay, Bernard Tschumi, Umbo, UNStudio (Ben van Berkel, Caroline Bos), Patrick Van Caeckenbergh, Jean-Luc Verna, Jean-Luc Vilmouth, Bernard Voïta, Madelon Vriesendorp, Ian Wallace, Krzysztof Wodiczko, Akram Zaatari, Olivier Zabat.

Trail's exhibitions:

Frac Pays de la Loire (Carquefou)
Paramor
From June 2 to October 14, 2012
Opening : Friday, June 1st, 6.30 pm
Paramor suggests a dive into an hypnotic, unreal and fantasied mood, continuing on an imaginary history of art, like an artist's dream.

Château d'Angers
Sarkis au Château d'Angers
From June to October 2012
Sarkis creates a monumental installation for the chapel of the Castle of Angers, where his iron chandeliers illuminate the Porte des champs.

Abbaye de Fontevraud
Mort en été
From Juin 23 to September 30, 2012
Opening : Saturday, June 23
Mort en été, 2012 and La nuit, 1984, two works by Claude Lévêque inviting to explore his dreamlike and intimate universes.

City of Chinon : Musée d’Art et d’Histoire and Galerie Contemporaine
La part des anges
From May 19 to September 17, 2012
Opening : Saturday, May 19
The city of Chinon presents at the gallery and at the museum two exhibitions entitled La part des anges with artworks of Sophie Calle, Charles Simonds, Martine Aballéa, ...

City of Thouars :

Musée Henri Barré
Les rêveries d'Henri
From May 19 to September 16, 2012
Opening : Saturday, June 23, 4.15 pm

Centre d'art la Chapelle Jeanne d'Arc
Le Somnambule
From June 23 to October 21, 2012
Opening : Saturday June 23, 5 pm

Ecole d'arts plastiques
Le Somnambule, contrepoint
From June 23 to September 2, 2012
Opening : Saturday June 23, 3.30 pm
In Thouars the Songe d'une nuit d'été (Midsummer night's dream) takes place in three places : the Arts Center the Chapelle Jeanne d'Arc, the plastic arts school and the museum Henri Barré.

Château d'Oiron
Dérives et des rêves
From June 24 to September 30, 2012
Opening: June 23, 6 pm
Floatting cities, flying objects, suspended constructions, the exhibition will show models of dreams conceived by contemporary architects and artists.

Frac Poitou-Charentes (Linazay)
Sunset
From June 16 to August 19, 2012
Opening : Saturday, June 16, 3 pm
Sunset organizes in chiaroscuro themes inspired by Shakespeare's theater play : the world withdrawal, the shared utopia, the sensuality, the constrained body, the intensity of desire and the strengthes of spirit.

Domaine de Chaumont-sur-Loire
Songeries végétales
From April 6 to November 7, 2012
Opening : Friday, April 6, 5 p
Patrick Tosani, Tania Mouraud and Jean-Luc Moulène: three photographers explore the themes of arts and nature developed by the estate of Chaumont-sur-Loire.

Château de Chambord
Fragments d'un discours onirique
From May 11 to October 7, 2012
Opening : Friday, May 11, 6 pm
Chambord is the château of fantasy. The exhibit underlines this characteristic, through the relationship between man and wild life and generally our relation to otherness.

Frac Centre (Orléans)
Véhicules rêvés
From May 16 to July 15, 2012
Opening: Tuesday, May 15
This exhibition tackles the issue of housing as an extension, natural or mechanical, of the body, which has become a nomadic architecture.

More informations on: www.frac-platform.com

Image: Claude Lévêque, La Nuit, 1984, installation © adagp œuvre de la collection du Frac des Pays de la Loire

Press relations:
Lorraine Hussenot T. + 33 (0) 1 48 78 92 20 lohussenot@hotmail.com

Opening: Friday, June 1st, 6.30 pm

Frac des Pays de la Loire
La Fleuriaye 44470 Carquefou

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