LOAN
28 MAY - 21 AUG 2011
FRI ART - FRIBOURG (CH)
Landscapes with Absent Figures
On loan from the FRAC Lorraine Collection: Nina Beier & Maria Lund, Mario Garcia Torres
The Fribourg Art Center takes pleasure in presenting its latest exhibition, mounted in conjunction with the festivities marking twenty years of activity within its walls. In a twist on a title belonging to the Swiss poet Philippe Jaccottet, Landscapes with Absent Figures features the work of eleven international artists.
Anniversaries tend to involve the processes of remembering and of compiling archives, all of which could seem somewhat paradoxical for an art center—a venue that, by definition, is firmly entrenched in the present or even the future, given its eye on emerging talents. Contrary to museums, art centers do not collect, do not accumulate anything other than documentary achives set up to counter the inevitable oversights, fadeouts and omissions that are equally part of their history. Only imperfectly can exhibitions convey what they have to say through remaining texts and images. And just as imperfectly, although ever so accurately, are they reflected in views of them held by visitors: views that are subjective, entailing fragments of recollections and exchanges of impressions, accounts that for better or for worse substitute for the erstwhile direct relationship with the works, while nonetheless very much the essence of that relationship with the oeuvre.
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