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PRESS RELEASE |
December 10, 2002 |
SITUATIONS FRANÇAISES:
ATLANTA PRESENTS CONTEMPORARY ART FROM FRANCE
A set of provocative exhibitions mounted by three distinctive venues designed to showcase exciting new art from France.
January 18 - February 28, 2003 Georgia State School of Art and Design Galleries presents Pulse Field, an exhibition featuring an array of international sound art - including Francis Dhomont, François Bayle, Henry Chopin, Luc Ferrari and the French sound art collective known as Ouïe Dire. Curated by Craig Dongoski, Robert Thompson and Cathy Byrd. L'Object Sonore, a companion exhibition of sound art objects, curated by Adam Overton, will be presented at Eyedrum Art & Music Gallery.
| Pulse
Field and l'Object Sonore |
OPENS:
Saturday, January 18, 2003 |
6:00-10:00 pm |
January 30 - March 9, 2003 Atlanta College of Art Gallery presents Lick the Window, a group exhibition highlighting young artists of the Buy-sellf collective, whose projects - from design to performance art - are conceptually oriented and often sharply witty. Characterized by a spirited inventiveness, the Buy-sellf artists create objects intended to inject the exceptional, absurd or poetic into everyday life. Curated by Lisa Fischman and Frederic Latherrade, Lick the Window marks the first North American Buy-sellf presentation.
| Buy-sellf:
Lick the Window |
OPENS:
Thursday, January 30, 2003 |
5:00-7:30 pm |
March 27 - May 4, 2003 Atlanta College of Art Gallery presents Mélik Ohanian's You're mY destinY, a multimedia installation project predicated on the entanglements of fate and identity. A young French-Armenian artist, Ohanian (b. 1969) is a leading member of the "new generation," a contemporary French artistic echelon distinguished by the diversity, conceptual orientation, technological and theoretical savvy of its participants. Curated by Lisa Fischman, You're mY destinY is an ACAG commission and marks Ohanian's first solo exhibition in the US.
| Mélik
Ohanian: You're mY destinY |
OPENS:
Thursday, March 27, 2003 |
5:00-7:30 pm |
Coming this Fall, from September 13 to November 1, 2003, Atlanta Contemporary Art Center presents Nouvelles Vagues, a survey of groundbreaking work in film and video curated by the Centre Georges Pompidou's New Media Curator, Christine van Aasche. The exhibition showcases work by experimental film pioneers, Jean-Luc Godard and Chris Marker, in tandem with film and new media work by a younger generation of Paris-based artists, Claude Closky, Pierre Huyghe and Mathieu Laurette.
Situations Françaises: Atlanta Presents Contemporary Art From France is presented with the support of Etant Donnés: The French-American Fund for Contemporary Art and the Cultural Services of the French Embassy.
Press information on individual exhibitions follows.
Contacts:
Georgia State School of Art and Design Galleries
Cathy Byrd, Director, 404/651-0489 cathybyrd@mindspring.com
Atlanta College of Art Gallery
Kelly Robinson, Director of Communications, 404/733-5008 kelly.robinson@woodruffcenter.org
Lisa Fischman, Gallery Director, 404/733-5051 lisa.fischman@woodruffcenter.org
Atlanta Contemporary Art Center
Mary Walton, 404/688-1970 x23 mwalton@thecontemporary.org