Exposition collective : Le Cyclope n'avait qu'un oeil mais c'est le bon
Group show: Le Cyclope n'avait qu'un oeil mais c'est le bon at 19 Crac.
Free admission
With works by Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Ulla Von Brandenburg, Alfred Courmes,
Sylvie Fanchon, Dora García, Shilpa Gupta, Sharon Hayes, Estefania Peñafiel Loaiza,
Matthieu Saladin, Marie Velardi from the Frac Franche-Comté collection.
The exhibition at 19, Crac brings together works from the Frac Franche-Comté collection. Its title is borrowed from an enigmatic painting by Alfred Courmes in 1960, Ave Maria, le Cyclope n'avait qu'un œil mais c'était le bon, a work that has been in the Frac collection since 1986.
This painting by an artist who was once associated with surrealism, shows a clergyman observing a little girl whose face is taken from an enamelled plate produced by the Japy company for Meunier chocolate. Already presented in Montbéliard in 2013 at the Musée du Château des Ducs de Wurtemberg, the work enabled the institution to echo the local industrial heritage and its links with religion. The same cannot be said of today's exhibition, which uses the Frac's collection to present a range of artists' views of our world.
Since 2006, the Frac Franche-Comté has been building up its collection around the vast issue of time and its corollaries: duration, movement, space, entropy, memory.... The collection includes plastic, sound, performance and immaterial works, and has opened up to trans-disciplinary works, in the image of artists who are constantly exploring new artistic territories. The selection made for the exhibition at 19, Crac brings together ten artists from a wide range of backgrounds who are committed to recounting the turbulence of our world and imagining its future in works that use language for its narrative and political dimensions. These singular voices express themselves through sculpture, installation, film, painting and sound works, recounting historical facts, accounts of trauma in a hostile environment, anecdotes, fictions and visionary perspectives.
Le Cyclope n'avait qu'un qu'un œil mais c'était le bon (The Cyclops had only one eye, but it was the right one) questions the way artists look at our society and our environment, as well as their perspicacity and vigilance. It also explores the way in which a public collection in turn tells the story of our times and our world, when it tells itself through the works that make it up, and when it is shown in a context that encourages reflection and debate.
Exhibition co-curators: Adeline Lépine and Sylvie Zavatta
Free admission
With works by Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Ulla Von Brandenburg, Alfred Courmes,
Sylvie Fanchon, Dora García, Shilpa Gupta, Sharon Hayes, Estefania Peñafiel Loaiza,
Matthieu Saladin, Marie Velardi from the Frac Franche-Comté collection.
The exhibition at 19, Crac brings together works from the Frac Franche-Comté collection. Its title is borrowed from an enigmatic painting by Alfred Courmes in 1960, Ave Maria, le Cyclope n'avait qu'un œil mais c'était le bon, a work that has been in the Frac collection since 1986.
This painting by an artist who was once associated with surrealism, shows a clergyman observing a little girl whose face is taken from an enamelled plate produced by the Japy company for Meunier chocolate. Already presented in Montbéliard in 2013 at the Musée du Château des Ducs de Wurtemberg, the work enabled the institution to echo the local industrial heritage and its links with religion. The same cannot be said of today's exhibition, which uses the Frac's collection to present a range of artists' views of our world.
Since 2006, the Frac Franche-Comté has been building up its collection around the vast issue of time and its corollaries: duration, movement, space, entropy, memory.... The collection includes plastic, sound, performance and immaterial works, and has opened up to trans-disciplinary works, in the image of artists who are constantly exploring new artistic territories. The selection made for the exhibition at 19, Crac brings together ten artists from a wide range of backgrounds who are committed to recounting the turbulence of our world and imagining its future in works that use language for its narrative and political dimensions. These singular voices express themselves through sculpture, installation, film, painting and sound works, recounting historical facts, accounts of trauma in a hostile environment, anecdotes, fictions and visionary perspectives.
Le Cyclope n'avait qu'un qu'un œil mais c'était le bon (The Cyclops had only one eye, but it was the right one) questions the way artists look at our society and our environment, as well as their perspicacity and vigilance. It also explores the way in which a public collection in turn tells the story of our times and our world, when it tells itself through the works that make it up, and when it is shown in a context that encourages reflection and debate.
Exhibition co-curators: Adeline Lépine and Sylvie Zavatta
Horaires et ouvertures
Next date
From 2026-02-07 to 2026-05-03 (14:00 à 18:00)
Tarifs
Free
19 Crac
19 Avenue des Alliés
25200
MONTBELIARD
