Residence/ exhibition "Storefront"

Name: Residencia/ exposición "Storefront"
Start: 2020-09-20T16:00:00+02:00
End: 2020-09-20T20:00:00+02:00
Location: Les Bains du Nord

Meet the artists of the collective Walc, Wolf Cuyvers and Alethia Lecoq, in residence at Frac Bourgogne.

Domingo 20 septiembre 2020, 16:00Passed

Herramientas de registro

WALC, Wolf Cuyvers et Alethia Lecoq

Since Monday, August 31, the collective of artists Walc occupies the shop of Bains du Nord in Dijon.
Winner of the 4th edition of this residency organized in partnership with Ensa Dijon, the collective Walc, composed of two artists Wolf Cuyvers and Alethia Lecoq, will work for 7 weeks in public. Meetings with artists will be organized to share with them their artistic universe.
An exhibition of the work produced will be held in this same space at the end of the residence.
This residency is part of the program of Parac (Pôle d'Action et de Recherche en Art contemporain de Dijon).
This residence is supported by the City of Dijon and the Adhex company.

About the location

Les Bains du Nord

16 rue Quentin, 21000 Dijon

Côte-d'Or
Bourgogne-Franche-Comté

The TAIL COAT(FRAC) Bourgogne: a history(story), an evolution. Arisen in 1983 from a partnership between the Ministry of Culture and Communication and the Region Bourgogne, the TAIL COAT(FRAC) Burgundy has as mission the constitution and management of a collection of contemporary art, as well as promotion(class) and distribution(broadcasting) of 650 works, representing 240 artists, which make(compose) it up. A visible(obvious) movie in the "Baths of the North", the birth of the collection redraws. The works of the collection are presented through temporary exhibitions(exposures), or circulate(run) by means of long-lasting(sustainable) loan or deposit(warehouse) in region Bourgogne, in France and on the international stage. Finally, the TAIL COAT(FRAC) leads awareness-raising activities to contemporary art and training(formation), to affect(touch) the widest possible public. Every year since 1984, the collection grows rich of new works proposed by a technical Committee of purchase compound(made up) of personalities of the world of contemporary art chosen for their expertise. Today 23 TAIL COAT(FRAC) are so divided on all national territory and all the collections include 20 000 works of 5 000 artists. In 2013, a politics(policy) and new orientations are committed(hired). The TAIL COAT(FRAC) Bourgogne intends to concentrate more than ever on its missions of origin." The Baths of the North": the space of exhibition(exposure) of the TAIL COAT(FRAC) Bourgogne in Dijon. On May 18th, 2013, the TAIL COAT(FRAC) Bourgogne inaugurated its new permanent place of exhibition(exposure) in the regional capital, "The Baths of the North". This space of 500 m2, old(former) public baths, then electrical goods store, has already made the object of a rehabilitation in 1980s, becoming spaces it out of exhibition(exposure) of the Contemporary Arts Centre The Consortium. Persuaded of the necessity of a pedagogy of look, the TAIL COAT(FRAC) Bourgogne proposes, in touch with main exhibition(exposure), exhibition(exposure)-workshop confided(entrusted) to a creator, aimed at(bound for) all, from 5 years. Weekly workshops/visits(studios) are also proposed to the public: small and big(great), accompanied by an artist in load(responsibility) of "Meetings with contemporary art", are invited to see, to perceive(collect), to feel …