We Fragment, Collect and Narrate
15 Feb - 27 Apr 2014
WE FRAGMENT, COLLECT AND NARRATE
With works from the collections of FRAC NOrd-Pas de Calais and Kunstmuseum Thun
15 February – 27 April 2014
Curated by: Sayoko Nakahara (FRAC Nord-Pas de Calais)
Co-curated by: Petra Giezendanner and Helen Hirsch (Kunstmuseum Thun)
The juxtaposition of two collections casts a special light on the selected works of the FRAC Nord-Pas de Calais and the Kunstmuseum Thun. The focus of the exhibition is a technique that is more than just familiar in our daily lives – collecting, disassembling and reassembling of knowledge, experiences or images.
We live in a time of fragmentation: all the time we are interrupted in our daily existence by incoming phone calls, SMS, emails, tweets; we are constantly exposed to a flood of partial information of all kinds thanks to the news, advertising or entertainment industry; we constantly google the Internet for information and content. Thus we relentlessly absorb the most varied knowledge, and out of it we derive our explanations and ideologies, our whole personal view of the world. So it is hardly surprising that this procedure plays an important role also in art. Time and again artists disassemble the existing into individual parts and reassemble; time and again they combine thoughts or ideas that have ostensibly nothing in common. Thus they create new meaningful correlations and enable new insights, and also reflect our reality characterised by fragmentation.
With We Fragment, Collect and Narrate the most diverse works from the collections of the FRAC Nord-Pas de Calais and the Kunstmuseum Thun are juxtaposed against each other and queried on the current significance of collage, assemblage or montage. The exhibition focuses its attention not only on the physical "cut and paste" but also considers how contemporary art responds to our complex, fast-paced and blind society.
In cooperation with FRAC Nord-Pas de Calais
With works from the collections of FRAC NOrd-Pas de Calais and Kunstmuseum Thun
15 February – 27 April 2014
Curated by: Sayoko Nakahara (FRAC Nord-Pas de Calais)
Co-curated by: Petra Giezendanner and Helen Hirsch (Kunstmuseum Thun)
The juxtaposition of two collections casts a special light on the selected works of the FRAC Nord-Pas de Calais and the Kunstmuseum Thun. The focus of the exhibition is a technique that is more than just familiar in our daily lives – collecting, disassembling and reassembling of knowledge, experiences or images.
We live in a time of fragmentation: all the time we are interrupted in our daily existence by incoming phone calls, SMS, emails, tweets; we are constantly exposed to a flood of partial information of all kinds thanks to the news, advertising or entertainment industry; we constantly google the Internet for information and content. Thus we relentlessly absorb the most varied knowledge, and out of it we derive our explanations and ideologies, our whole personal view of the world. So it is hardly surprising that this procedure plays an important role also in art. Time and again artists disassemble the existing into individual parts and reassemble; time and again they combine thoughts or ideas that have ostensibly nothing in common. Thus they create new meaningful correlations and enable new insights, and also reflect our reality characterised by fragmentation.
With We Fragment, Collect and Narrate the most diverse works from the collections of the FRAC Nord-Pas de Calais and the Kunstmuseum Thun are juxtaposed against each other and queried on the current significance of collage, assemblage or montage. The exhibition focuses its attention not only on the physical "cut and paste" but also considers how contemporary art responds to our complex, fast-paced and blind society.
In cooperation with FRAC Nord-Pas de Calais