Currently showing


  • John M. Armleder
    Furniture Sculpture 21, 1981
    Collection FRAC Nord-Pas de Calais, Dunkerque, FR

    Credit: ©John M. Armleder / Photo Emmanuel Watteau
     

  • Maurizio Cattelan
    Sans Titre, 1997
    Collection FRAC Nord-Pas de Calais, Dunkerque, FR

    Credit: ©Maurizio Cattelan / Photo A.Morin
     

  • Fleury
    Bedroom Ensemble (Hommage à Claes Oldenburg), 1997
    Collection FRAC Nord-Pas de Calais, Dunkerque, FR

    Credit: ©D.R. / Photo Jens Ziehe, Berlin
     

  • Marti Guixé, Skip
    Furniture Statement Chair : Stop
    Discrimination Of Cheap Furniture, 2004
    Collection FRAC Nord-Pas de Calais, Dunkerque, FR

    Credit: ©Marti Guixé / Photo Inga Knölke
     

  • Denis Santachiara
    Lit
    Pisolo, 1997
    Collection FRAC Nord-Pas de Calais, Dunkerque, FR

    Credit: ©D.R. / Photo Emmanuel Watteau
     

  • Ralph Ball & Maxine Naylor
    Chaise
    Greystack, 2003
    Collection FRAC Nord-Pas de Calais, Dunkerque, FR

    Credit: ©Design Ralph Ball and Maxine Naylor / Photo David Spero
     

  • SUPERFLEX
    Copy Right (Colored Version), 2007
    Collection FRAC Nord-Pas de Calais, Dunkerque, FR

    Credit: ©D.R. / Courtesy Nils Staerck Contemporary Art, Copenhaghe
     

  • Barbara Visser
    Detitled, 2000
    EAARS20001205/FT/S/bw
    Collection FRAC Nord-Pas de Calais, Dunkerque, FR

    Credit: ©Barbara Visser / Courtesy Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam
     

From February 24, 2010
to May 24, 2010

Destroy Design
Contemporary Art and/or Design

Collection du Frac - Nord Pas de Calais

http://www.fracnpdc.fr

The Destroy Design exhibition, featuring a selection of works on loan from France's Frac-Nord Pas de Calais (Regional Contemporary Art Collection), grants viewers an overview of the contemporary art and design realms. The shared focus of all the displays is on objects; mostly mundane, these are diverted, repurposed or at times manhandled.

As such, they become installations, manifestoes, photographs or sculptures. Artists and designers alike relate to certain design icons, repurposing them through parody and pastiche, but also by way of tributes.
Each of the two exhibition rooms will feature a short film on the works presented; conceived by the curatorial team, these will underscore the links among the displays. The showing at the mudac is the first leg of this exhibition's tour of Europe.

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