Contemporary art and sport come together in honor of the Olympic Games in 13 French cities

Thirteen eclectic exhibitions, for a “generous event which abandons clichés about contemporary art to embrace an ode to diversity”, summarizes Fabien Donesi, director of the Regional Contemporary Art Fund (FRAC) Corsica and general curator of exhibitions .

So many places which will become, for the duration of an exhibition, a new playground to respond to “the first ambition” of this project “Art & Sport”: “democratize contemporary art by reaching out to sports users and taking works out of art centers or museums”, Fabien Danesi explains to AFP. From Sartène (South Corsica) to Nevers, Grenoble, Paris or Saint-Brieuc (Côte d’Armor), “the ambition was to link art and sport in this year of the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games”.

Drawing on the collections of the 22 FRACs in France, which are celebrating their 40th anniversary this year, “these sports establishments will become unexpected exhibition spaces in which videos, photographs and installations will appear to encourage a step aside”, he continues.

It will begin at the Nevers sports center (Nièvre) from May 5 to June 2 with the presentation of a selection of video and photographic works focused on the hand.

Then at the Saint-Brieuc convention center from May 8 to 12, during the 26th national games of the future for disabled sports, an exhibition around neon will try to “tell in a magical way the new impetus that people with disabilities are capable of finding”.

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