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Lyon
Biennale 2003
Biennale d'art contemporain de Lyon
3, rue du Président Edouard Herriot
BP 1137 - 69203 Lyon Cedex 01 - France
T. 33 4 72 07 41 41
F. 33 4 72 00 03 13
http://www.biennale-de-lyon.org
E-mail : info@biennale-de-lyon.org
presse.art@biennale-de-lyon.org
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The Lyon Biennale will run from late September 2003 to early January
2004.
For the first time it will enjoy a central, newly renovated location
the
Sucrière and four additional venues: the Lyon Museum of
Contemporary
Art, the Villeurbanne Institute of Contemporary Art, the Lyon Fine Arts
Museum and the Lyon Rectangle.
Organisation of the Biennale has been in the hands of Thierry Raspail
and
Thierry Prat since 1991. This time round they've opted for working with
the team from Consortium, the Dijon contemporary art centre. Consortium
directors Xavier Douroux, Franck Gautherot and Eric Troncy have in turn
invited three freelance curators: Anne Pontégnie from Brussels, Jan
Winkelmann from Leipzig and Robert Nickas from New York.
The objective for 2003
"Fresh experience, but less in the sense of experimentation than of a
formal, cognitive experience for the visitor and ultimately the
experience offered by artists whose commitment is to creative command.
A mix of artistic generations, with the underlying notion that what is
currently being said by many long-time figures on the art scene goes to
the heart of immediately contemporary experience.
A view of the creative landscape entailing no emphasis on the eccentric
and openly concerned more with individual characteristics than with
matters of provenance or identity.
Such are the choices that make a Biennale, where works caught at the
"right moment" provide their own right moments for the visitor, and
where
a quest for internal narrative will encounter the stories and
commentaries
the exhibition seeks to generate. The Lyon Biennale, then: a stance
backed
by a few brief words."
Biennale d'art contemporain de Lyon
3, rue du Président Edouard Herriot
BP 1137 - 69203 Lyon Cedex 01 - France
T. 33 4 72 07 41 41
F. 33 4 72 00 03 13
http://www.biennale-de-lyon.org
E-mail : info@biennale-de-lyon.org
presse.art@biennale-de-lyon.org
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