Horizons in motion
Since 1991, the Frac Centre-Val de Loire has brought together contemporary art and experimental architecture dating from the 1950s to the current day in a single collection. With more
than 20,000 works and almost 500 artists and architects represented, the critical dimension of architecture is presented, as well as its power for vision and utopia. The works create an
interdisciplinary dialogue around the idea of “project”, where architectural drawings and models can intersect with the exploratory phases of the artistic process.
The permanent gallery invites visitors to immerse themselves into 4 of the main acquisition focuses of this collection, revealing a history of forward-looking architecture, rooted in an interdisciplinary approach. Firstly, Architecture-sculpture, championed from the 1950s onwards by a generation calling for a new synthesis of the arts. Then, radical architecture, whose protagonists, in the 1960s, adopted a rebellious and provocative stance in the face of the dehumanisation engendered by rationalism. Next came the iconic projects of Deconstructivist architects, theorising and opening up to newly-developing digital tools in the 1980s. These tools were at the heart of hybrid and interactive architectural practices, presented here to show their biomimetic potential.
Download the exhibition’s leaflet
Exhibited artists and architects :
Saâdane Afif, Ant Farm, Architecture Principe, Archizoom Associati, Ila Bêka et Louise Lemoine, Bernd & Hilla Becher, BIOTHING (Alisa Andrasek), André Bloc, Santiago Borja, Chanéac, Constant, Hernán Díaz Alonso, Diller + Scofidio, ecoLogic Studio, Peter Eisenman, Günther Feuerstein, Hiromi Fujii, Mathias Goeritz, Zaha Hadid, Angela Hareiter, Aglaia Konrad, Eustachy Kossakowski et Alina Slesinska, Daniel Libeskind, marcosandmarjan, MaterialEcology, New-Territories (S/he), OCEAN, OMA, ONYX, Open Source Architecture, Ricardo Porro, Ruy Klein, Nicolas Schöffer, Massinissa Selmani, Beniamino Servino, SITE (James Wines), Ettore Sottsass Jr., Bernard Tschumi, Zünd-Up
Exhibition images
Angela Hareiter, Crack, Plastik explodiert (détail), 1965. Collection Frac Centre-Val de Loire