Spatial City: an Architecture of Idealism June 4, 2010

'Spatial City' is a major touring exhibition of international contemporary art drawn from the French regional contemporary art collections (the Frac). 'Spatial City' brings together an international, multi-generational array of artists--with an emphasis on artists living in France--whose work contends with idealism, utopian thinking, and, in counterpoint, the cynicism that follows failed revolution and the retreat of optimism in the face of pragmatic reality. The exhibition traces the connection between the vanguard concepts of urban space dominant in the mid-twentieth century and championed by Yona Friedman to the art of the present, bringing together historical and recent examples of artists from the US and abroad.