Listen to your eyes :: a twofold exhibition shown simultaneously at 49 Nord 6 Est – FRAC Lorraine and at the École Supérieure d’Art in Metropolitan Métropole (ÉSAMM) :: February 26, 2010 to April 18, 2010 :: Free admission ::
[image: Su-Mei Tse, Das Wohltemperierte Klavier, 2001, Collection Frac Lorraine, © D.R.]
The exhibition Listen to your eyes is the first event in the series. Diagonales : son, vibration et musique (Diagonals: sound, vibration, and music). Originated by Centre national des arts plastiques (CNAP), it combines visits to exhibitions in ten regions in France, as well as in Benelux, and brings together nineteen contemporary art centers around a common issue: the place of sound and music in contemporary creation from the 1960s to the present, as seen through a selection of works from the Centre national des arts plastiques.

This exhibition is, first of all, a site-specific work, conceived and produced for the event: a silent, luminous injunction of an eponymous piece by Maurizio Nannucci. On the roof of ÉSAMM, overlooking the city, Listen to your Eyes made itself at home.

Praise of silence, paradoxically, by those who are confined to it and by those who seek it to better overcome it. A selection of works inciting us to get rid of our automatisms and preconceptions, to detach ourselves from the norm, and to open up to possibilities.

Artists /
Frac Lorraine : Manon de Boer, Benjamin Dufour, Jakob Gautel et Jason Karaïndros, On Kawara, Zilvinas Kempinas, Eva Koch, Jirí Kolár, Roman Signer, Rémy Zaugg, Artur Żmijewski

ÉSAMM : Carl Andre, Ziad Antar, Julije Knifer, Rainier Lericolais, Bernard Moninot, Maurizio Nannucci, Aurélie Nemours, Su-Mei Tse

A collaboration between the Centre national des arts plastiques – Ministère de la culture et de la communication, 49 Nord 6 Est – Fonds régional d’art contemporain de Lorraine, and the École Supérieure d’Art de Metz Métropole – ÉSAMM.

Media partners supporting Diagonales: sound, vibration, and music: Le Nouvel Observateur, Les Inrockuptibles, Mouvement,
Le Journal des Arts, France Culture