A cross channel art collaboration, as part of a contemporary art trail linking France, Belgium and England, has included a work now installed and on show at Dover Museum. The art trail, Shadows In Paradise, is themed as memorials to the 1st and 2nd World Wars. It links artworks across three countries, including works installed at Dover Museum, Dover Castle and the Spitfire and Hurricane Memorial Museum in Ramsgate.
The initiative, organised by French authorities, is part of the work of the Fonds Regional d'Art Contemporain (FRAC), Nord - Pas de Calais. The FRAC, Nord - Pas de Calais aims to build up a collection dedicated to international contemporary art, and to show this collection as widely as possible by developing an international network, working on traveling exhibitions and lending works to other institutions.
The work loaned to Dover Museum is "Armenie" by artist Michel Aubry, and will be on display until Remembrance Day on 11 November 2007. Over the last fifteen years, Michel Aubry has created for himself an unusual place in the world of contemporary art by developing a body of work in which his conceptual approach cultivates tradition and modernity, music and visual arts, sound and sculpture.
For more information on Dover Museum, please log onto www.dovermuseum.co.uk or for more information on FRAC Nord - Pas de Calais, please see www.fracnpdc.fr.
