Somewhere Everywhere Nowhere

Collections sans Frontiéres III
Contemporary art from the French Regional Art Collections
Dundee Contemporary Arts and The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh

For the first time, two of Scotland's major public contemporary art spaces are collaborating to produce an exhibition of the finest international contemporary art. Selected from France's 'Fonds Régionaux d'Art Contemporain' (FRACs), Somewhere Everywhere Nowhere is presented simultaneously at The Fruitmarket Gallery and Dundee Contemporary Arts.

Courtesy: Thomas Struth & Dundee Contemporary Arts

It is a major event within Britain and France's calendar of celebrations to mark the centenary anniversary of the 'Entente Cordiale'.

Courtesy: Lisa Milroy and Dundee Contemporary Arts

Somewhere Everywhere Nowhere is an exhibition selected from the holdings of five of the FRACs, the FRACs du Grand Est – Alsace, Bourgogne, Champagne-Ardenne, Franche-Comté and Lorraine. In recognition of the FRACs’ particular status as regionally-based, national institutions with an international remit, and the fact that collections are tied to a locale but are often without a permanent ‘home’, the exhibition highlights notions of place, space and context.

The Entente Cordiale Scotland programme is part of the wider festivities being organised by the French and UK governments, to commemorate the signing of the Entente Cordiale on April 8, 1904. Scotland is conducting its biggest programme of overseas promotion and exchange since devolution.

Courtesy: Hiroshi Sugimoto & Dundee Contemporary Arts

The works presented are in a wide range of media including film, photography, sculpture and video, with subjects from landscapes to interiors, some of which have never been seen previously in the UK.  Reflecting the great richness of the FRACs’ collection, the exhibition includes works by major French and international figures:

Lothar Baumgarten (Germany) Alighiero e Boetti (Italy) Martin Boyce (Scotland) Willie Doherty (Northern Ireland) Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster (France) Douglas Gordon (Scotland) Pierre Huyghe (France) Thomas Struth (Germany) Hiroshi Sugimoto (Japan) and Jeff Wall (Canada) among many others – and offers an inspiring vision of the breadth and quality of contemporary art being collected.

Courtesy: The Fruitmarket Gallery

             
Courtesy: The Fruitmarket Gallery        Courtesy: The Fruitmarket Gallery

The Fruitmarket Gallery Exhibition 16 October - 28 November 2004 45 Market Street, Edinburgh , EH1 1DF Tel: 0131 2252383 E-mail: bookshop@fruitmarket.co.uk Dundee Contemporary Arts Exhibition 16 October - 4 December 2004 152 Nethergate, Dundee, DD1 4DY Tel: 01382 909900 E-mail: mail@dca.org.uk