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Somewhere Everywhere Nowhere

An exhibition of international contemporary art from the French Regional Arts Collections (Fonds Regional d’Art Contemporain). Presented in collaboration with Dundee Contemporary Arts.

Alighiero e Boetti, Lothar Baumgarten, Bernd & Hilla Becher, Martin Boyce, Jean-Marc Bustamante, Chen Zhen, Willie Doherty, Luciano Fabro, Fischli & Weiss, Andrea Fraser, peter Garfield, Douglas Gordon, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Graham Gussin, Pierre Huyghe, Richard Long, Aernout Mik, Lisa Milroy, Sarah Morris, Cady Noland, Thomas Struth, Hiroshi Sugimoto and Lily Van der Stoker are just some of the artists whose work features in the collections of the French ŒFracs¹’ (the Fonds Régionaux d¹Art Contemporain’) and is coming to Scotland in October.

The Fracs were set up in 1983. Institutions with a remit to collect, commission and present the art of our times, they have mapped out a territory for contemporary art in France as resolutely international as it is local. With more than 15,000 works made by more than 3,000 artists held in the 23 Fracs which between them cover the whole of France, the Fracs now provide a powerful reference point for the recent history of contemporary art.

Somewhere Nowhere Everywhere is an exhibition selected from the holdings of the five Fracs du Grand Est for simultaneous exhibition in Dundee and Edinburgh. Working with the Fracs offers an unrivalled opportunity for bringing outstanding, world-class art of recent years to Scotland. The exhibition highlights notions of place, space and context, from landscapes to interiors, with works ranging from the slick sophistication of Sarah Morris¹s film shot in Manhattan, Midtown or the knowing irony of Andrea Fraser¹s alternative guide to Frank Gehry¹s Guggenheim Bilbao, Little Frank and his Carp; to the poetic simplicity of Richard Long¹s Cornish Slate Ring or the exuberant colour which invades the Gallery in Lily Van der Stoker¹s Curlicue in Red.