Installations, paintings, photographs, video art and objet d’art of the FRAC Bretagne’s collection (Regional Foundation for Contemporary Arts which lists up to 3, 500 works of art and over 500 artists) have set the basis for the exhibitions.

“La peinture apres la peinture" (Painting After Painting) at the National Center for Contemporary Arts brings together works by some of the key and most versatile French artists, including Christian Boltanski, as well as the “painter of black”, Pierre Soulages, among many others. The display is a fusion of genres, generations and experiences from such gurus of contemporary art as Jacques Villeglé, Rémy Zaugg, François Morellet and Cecile Bart.

Two other exhibitions – “Au present” and “Mastering the World” – will open at the Winzavod Contemporary Art Center.

While “Au Present” brings together ten artists of different generations, such as Victor Alimpiev, Jean-Luc Moulène, Pascal Pinaud, Yury Albert and Nicolas Floc’h, “L’expirience Du Monde” (Mastering The World ) sees its main challenge in finding an answer to the “eternal question” of whether art can change the world through timeless works by Miroslaw Balka and Christian Boltanski, Vito Acconci and Pier Paolo Calzolari, Tony Matelli and Marcel Dinahet.

Given that “painting is just another way of keeping a diary”, according to Pablo Picasso, the exhibition offers many individual “diaries” capable of shedding some light on ambiguous contemporary art.