Text : Ole Bouman
600 x 840 cm (format plié : 30 x 21 cm)
ill. coul. et n. & bl.
Prix : 4 Euros

Artist’s book, 2009
Introduction: Lara Almarcegui
Texts: Lara Almarcegui, Sandrine Rebeyrat, Siloé Pétillat, Jo-Ann Campion
Photography: Lara Almarcegui
Bilingual French / English
170 pages, 18 x 12 cm, b. & w. ill.
Ed. Frac Bourgogne
Coproduced by: Frac Bourgogne, Écomusée Creusot-Montceau
Distributor: Les presses du réel, Dijon
ISBN 978-2-913994-35-5
Price: 30Euros

The work of Lara Almarcegui (born in 1972 in Zaragoza, Spain) develops outside the specific arena of art. Her praxis explores our relations with the built environment, with a preference for abandoned areas: waste land, allotments, ruined buildings and buildings being demolished, all manifestations of the territory’s unconscious, which she prompts us to observe, identify, and visit. “The artist thus sheds light on the materiality and temporality which turn a constructed environment (a city, or a garden…) into a breathing ecosystem. As a result, Lara Almarcegui’s projects usher in a line of thinking about order, power sharing, and the laws which govern us.” (Chloé Nicolas, La Box, Bourges, 2008).
Ruins in Burgundy XIX-XXI includes more than 150 architectural sites grouped by département. Each site, photographed by the artist, is accompanied by a notice. “These ruins and abandoned buildings—writes Lara Almarcegui—have no use, no function. This means that they are left open to all kinds of possibilities. At a time when every inch of land seems to be organized and used with the utmost efficiency, the existence of these blank spaces is something to be grateful for. But it is important to remember that although some of these ruins will remain standing for some time, others will be renovated, and many of them will be demolished before long. It is important to visit them before they disappear.”

1:1 x temps, quantités, proportions et fuites
Group catalogue, 2007
Interviews: Eva González-Sancho § Frédéric Oyharçabal, Carla Lonzi, Sarah McFadden, Manuel Olveira, Anne Pontégnie, Antonella Soldaini, Mats Stjernstedt, Lise Viseux and the artists
Bilingual : french / english, 104 pages - 24 x 19 cm, ill. n. & b. and col.,
Biographies
ISBN: 978-2-913994-16-4

Price : 25 euros


The catalogue devoted to the exhibition 1:1 x temps, quantites, proportions et fuites(25.10.2003 to 20.12.2003 in Dijon) ushers in a series of publications about group shows held in the FRAC Bourgogne exhibition venue in Dijon--shows bringing together works from its collection and productions made specifically for the venue. It includes a series of interviews with the artists involved, conducted by art critics and exhibition curators, and an interview with Eva González-Sancho, director of the FRAC Bourgogne.
1:1 x temps, quantites, proportions et fuite is a “programme“ exhibition dealing with the artistic orientations of the FRAC Bourgogne, as they were defined by Eva González-Sancho when she took up her post in 2003. These orientations focus essentially on the exploration of the theme of space from several angles: the public space from the viewpoint of legislation, individual liberty, social linkage, architecture and city- or town-planning; and the issue of the exhibition space and its different parameters—production, time-frame, reception and social practice—for which this group show puts forward an approach.
The interview between Eva González-Sancho and Frederic Oyharçabal covers the different aspects of the exhibition and the working processes, both applied and called upon to be developed in future projects. It sketches the outlines of an exhibition and acquisitions policy which goes “beyond events”, based on an on-going accompaniment and follow-up of the artists’ work in relation to an editorial and publications policy marked by the temporal hindsight required by any production of writings about exhibitions.
The interviews with the artists do not focus solely on the works on view. The reader is invited to make his/her way inside the catalogue, and undertake constant to-ings and fro-ings between the different interviews and conversations, in order to see the goal of this publication gradually taking shape—a publication which strives not to “confine” the approach adopted by each artist within an idea, or theme.

Journal, 2008
Essays by: Eric Chauvier, Peio Aguirre
About the artists : Marcelo Cidade, Knut Asdam et Johanna Billing
Bilingual French/English
Graphic design: www.bisdixit.com
12 pages, 420 x 600 mm (closed 210 x 150 mm), b/w ill.
Published by: Fonds régional d’art contemporain de Bourgogne - Dijon [FR] with the backing of the Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication (Direction régionale des affaires culturelles de Bourgogne), the Conseil régional de Bourgogne and the Conseil général de la Côte d’Or.
Co-produced by: Fonds régional d’art contemporain de Bourgogne (FRAC), Dijon [FR] · Bis – Barcelone, Figueras [ES].

Price : 3 euros


Putting a collection together, showing it in different venues, working with artists n a long-term basis, and producing works and exhibitions, all this calls for a critical line of thinking which is attested to after the fact by editorial policy. Posters, artist’s books, and catalogues for solo and group shows published by the Frac Bourgogne are invariably the product of a line of thinking developed after the event represented by the exhibition, acquisition, and/or production of a work of art. There is the time required for selecting authors and publishing and editorial partners; there is the understanding necessary for grasping the far-reaching links between works belonging to one and the same set or ensemble; there is the appearance of hitherto unseen forms of coherence within the collection, and there is the invitation to produce other forms of discourse on art in order to incorporate things that are different and eclectic. The Frac Bourgogne is keen to describe this slow process of maturation that involves a new kind of thinking.