The Frac is offering Feuilles, pierres, ciseaux (Leaves, stones, scissors) - a series of lectures introducing the public to contemporary art in a s...
The Frac is offering Feuilles, pierres, ciseaux (Leaves, stones, scissors) - a series of lectures designed to introduce you to contemporary art in a sensitive and accessible way. Three meetings to familiarise yourself with art and deepen your knowledge.
Faced with the widespread idea that you have to understand contemporary art to appreciate it, I defend the idea that you first have to believe in it, or rather, want to believe in it!
From this desire to believe, as a prerequisite for establishing a relationship of trust and affection with the works, understanding can then be born: it comes through looking, paying attention, being surprised, feeling emotion, which must arouse the desire to learn, to know more, better. The desire to believe and knowledge together open up the possibility of remaining critical and alert. Do you want to believe?
In three parts, using works from the Frac Franche-Comté's exhibitions and collection, the lectures will explore what works of art do to us, and make us do it.
Lectures by Claire Kueny: Doctor in art history and theory / Art critic / Teacher-researcher at the Institut Supérieur des Beaux-Arts in Besançon.
Awakening (stones)
For our second meeting, we'll be looking at how works of art, by playing with the limits of the visible and the audible, arouse our attention, awaken our senses and demand our involvement.
The works will be likened to stones, always "carriers of an elsewhere, a bygone age". Our awakening will come from delving deeper, discovering the layers of knowledge they contain.
Leaves, stones, scissors: a series of introductory lectures on contemporary art.
Faced with the widespread idea that you have to understand contemporary art to appreciate it, I defend the idea that you first have to believe in it, or rather, want to believe in it!
From this desire to believe, as a prerequisite for establishing a relationship of trust and affection with the works, understanding can then be born: it comes through looking, paying attention, being surprised, feeling emotion, which must arouse the desire to learn, to know more, better. The desire to believe and knowledge together open up the possibility of remaining critical and alert. Do you want to believe?
In three parts, using works from the Frac Franche-Comté's exhibitions and collection, the lectures will explore what works of art do to us, and make us do it.
Lectures by Claire Kueny: Doctor in art history and theory / Art critic / Teacher-researcher at the Institut Supérieur des Beaux-Arts in Besançon.
Awakening (stones)
For our second meeting, we'll be looking at how works of art, by playing with the limits of the visible and the audible, arouse our attention, awaken our senses and demand our involvement.
The works will be likened to stones, always "carriers of an elsewhere, a bygone age". Our awakening will come from delving deeper, discovering the layers of knowledge they contain.
Leaves, stones, scissors: a series of introductory lectures on contemporary art.
