Regional Fund for Contemporary Art
The regional funds for contemporary art (French: Fonds régionaux d'art contemporain , FRACs for short) are public collections of contemporary visual art in 23 major cities in France .
They were set up from 1982 under Culture Minister Jack Lang during the presidency of François Mitterrand ( PS ). The Ministry of Culture secures the financing together with the regional councils. It was an attempt to collect and exhibit contemporary art outside the metropolis of Paris as part of the decentralization of the country (the Musée National d'Art Moderne collects there ). FRACs are available in the capitals of the regions in metropolitan France , as well as in Fort-de-France , Martinique and in Saint-Denis , Réunion . 26,000 works by 4,200 artists have been acquired so far. The FRACs' exhibitions take place at home and abroad.
New buildings have been planned and implemented in recent years: museums in Dunkerque , Rennes (2012), Orléans (2013), Besançon (2013; cost 46.4 million euros) and Marseille (opened in 2013, built by Kengo Kuma ) have already been inaugurated .
A new building is to be opened in Bordeaux in 2017 .
See also
Web links
- www.lescollectionsdesfrac.fr (English)
- frac-platform.com (French)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Information on the FRACs on the website of the Ministry of Culture (French) ( Memento of December 13, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on January 17, 2014
- ↑ Information on the FRAC Rennes website (French) ( Memento from January 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on January 17, 2014
- ↑ Information on the page Cité des arts et de la culture (French) ( Memento from January 15, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on January 17, 2014
- ↑ Information on baunetz.de, July 10, 2014 , accessed on January 17, 2014
- ↑ Information with photos (French) ( Memento from April 30, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on January 17, 2014