Exhibition – Video Installations
Sept 14 – 27.09.2021
In partnership with:
Frac Centre-Val de Loire (Regional Fund for Contemporary Art)
At a time when urban planning is constantly investing in the field of contemporary art research, the exhibition presents several aspects of the relationship between “art and architecture” today.
The presented selection of works brings together the creations of artists and architects from six countries, for whom the city is both an object of analysis and a field for intervention.
The exhibition creates a dialogue between contemporary works and proposals that emerged during the radical movement of the 1960s and 70s. It allows us to return to the role of the architect and showcase attempts to rewrite the origins of cities and their architecture.
Through 11 works by artists and architects, the exhibition offers an opportunity for an urban walk from afar and up close, revealing both the utopias of the 1960s and the fragility of the present in the face of ecological and industrial disasters.
A program of lectures is held as part of the exhibition:
Lecture schedule: 6:30 PM – 7:30 PM
September 14: Nabila Metaïr, Architect and Art Historian: “Landscapes of the Frac Centre-Val de Loire Collection: From the Architectural Utopia of the 1960s to New Fields of Experimentation.”
Simultaneous interpretation French/Bulgarian
September 15: Todor Mihaylov, Architect: “Architectural and Literary Utopias”
September 16: Aleksandar Yonchev, Architect: “The Role of Architectural Utopia in the City of the Future”
September 20: Lyubo Georgiev, Architect: “The Interested Researcher”
September 21: Venelin Shurelov, Visual Artist: “New Media, Promises and Dangers”
September 23: Stefan Asparuhov, Architect: “Peri-urbanization Processes and Transformations of Agricultural Territories in Bulgaria”
The exhibition is organized by the French Institute in Bulgaria in partnership with Frac Centre-Val de Loire and the French Institute in Bulgaria
Free admission. The exhibition and lectures are held in compliance with current anti-epidemic measures.
