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Christoph Draeger and Berdaguer & Pejus
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14/6/2002

Christoph Draeger and Berdaguer & Pejus

Fri Art - Kunsthalle Fribourg, Fribourg

Christoph Draeger (1965), a Swiss artist who has been living and working in New York since 1996, invites us to share in his fascination with the beauty of destruction and chaos. Berdaguer & Pejus This French duo who live and work in Marseilles present one of their living spaces. Skilled in radical and utopian architecture, Berdaguer & Pejus reject the role of artist: who plays house.


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Christoph Draeger (1965), a Swiss artist who has been living and working in New York since 1996, invites us to share in his fascination with the beauty of destruction and chaos.
Through his productions which abound in complexity and extremes (Apocalypso Place, installation 1999/2000, Tueur né, installation 1997/2001), Draeger uses parody to reflect on reality. The "Apocalypso Place" installation is a desolate living room, in which a sitcom set in the post Great Disaster era is playing. In a second living room equally desolate as the first, three individuals are waiting impatiently for the next alarming newsflash. Their euphoria is only reached when they become the subjects of a report on disaster victims by MSNBC 24 Disaster and Survival Channel.
The first version of this project was created for the Roebling Hall Gallery, New York in September 2001. The events that rocked this city have given this exhibition a certain uneasy resonance. Nevertheless the exhi-bition went ahead.
The Der letzte Ritter/Le dernier chevalier/The Last Rider deals directly with the familiar world of leisure, of good times, and death, lurking in the background, which finally catches up with us all. Once more, the artist examines subjects which have become his stock-in-trade: natural and human destruction, and their in-herent devastating shock value.
Christoph Draeger is responsible for the Beaufort 12 exhibition at the Neuchâtel arteplage, part of Expo 02.

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Berdaguer & Péjus
This French duo who live and work in Marseilles present one of their living spaces. Skilled in radical and utopian architecture, Berdaguer & Péjus reject the role of artist: who plays house. The focus of their work is neurological malfunctions, using them as translators, filters, or projects of spatial reality. Les Habitats neurodomotiques, 1999, are the fruit of this research. Take the example of a subject suffering from hemi-anopia (who has lost his left field of vision). Berdaguer &Péjus recreates this by constructing a house where the right is non-existent: it is round, spins, never comes into contact with the right, and with a slightly slanted floor which constantly redirects objects and paths to the right.
Locked-chamber-sas/design neuronal, 2001: an enormous, heavenly transparent ball installed in a chemi-cal environment, bathed in phosphorescent light and veiled in an artificial mist, is the piece/atmosphere which the duo will recreate in Fri-Art.
This project is defined by the artists as: An artificial psychophysiological landscape aimed at placing the viewer in a transitory space between the inside of his own body and his external environment.
They have a coined a language which defines a landscape as an immersive installation or a reduced model. The duo considers art a trick or device of the frequently deceptive subject/object or inside/outside interface, which exacerbates or substitutes the world as such. It is difficult today to create art which would only exist outside the body, only reproducing visual forms to be decoded semantically. (Philippe Rahm).

The Berdaguer & Péjus exhibition is a joint project with the Belluard Bollwerk International (BBI).

Opening on Saturday June 15, 5 p.m.

Every Thursday during the exhibition, Sushi in La Cuisine
Reservations (before Wednesday evening): 026 323 23 51

Thursday 20 June at 8 p.m.: Guided tour of the exhibition with Michel Ritter, Director of Fri-Art

Opening hours: Tues.-Fri. 2-6 p.m., Sat.-Sun. 2-5 p.m., Thursday evenings 8-10 p.m.

Next exhibition: Carte blanche for Hou Hanru, guest curator, 01.09-20.10.02 Opening Saturday August 31st, 5 p.m.

FRI-ART Centre d'Art Contemporain - Kunsthalle - Petites-Rames 22 - CH 1700 Fribourg
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