Dpresse_collectionne.. - L'espace de l'art concret

“Collectors on site”Opening : Sunday, June 19th, 2011 at 5:00p.m.June 22 through October 30, 2011Artistes : Céleste Boursier-Mougenot, Denis Castellas, Krijn De Koning, Sandra Lorenzi, Pascal Pinaud, FlorianPugnaire & David Raffini, Djamel Tatah, Cedric Teisseire, Richard WoleckIn the framework of the exceptional exhibition, Contemporary Art and the French Riviera, ATerritory for Experimentation, the Espace de l’Art Concret presents a panorama of work by livingartists as seen through the eyes of certain collectors from the region. The project examinesthe practice of installation art and on-site work by offering each artist an occasion to conceive apiece (financed and acquired by the collector) which will first be installed in the Castle gallery ofthe Espace de l’Art Concret and subsequently be integrated into the collector’s private collection.This exhibition brings together ten artists in association with nine collectors, or couples whocollect, for the conception of nine projects which must be integrated into two exhibition spacescompletely different in both architecture and function.The title of the exhibition, « Collectors on site » emphasizes the active role played by thecollectors who experience here a new relationship with a work of art: one with a work in process.The dialogue between artist and collector also opens up to another interlocutor: the institution,initiator and pivot of the project. The Espace de l’Art Concret, fruit of a private initiative and apolitical choice, seems the ideal site for such an exhibition. In the same way the Castle, abuilding from the private sector transformed into an art center open to the public, allows us to putinto perspective the sometimes ambiguous relationships that art maintains with commissionsand decorum.