Zébra3 & Lieu-Commun present

RUN, RUN, RUN, an exhibition around the notion of artist-run space, designed by around twenty European structures and over sixty artists, transforming the Villa Arson into a vast site of creation and experimentation. Project carried out on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of La Station (Nice).

Based in Nice, La Station is an artist-run space, i.e. a production and exhibition space founded and managed by artists (http://www.artist-run-spaces.org/) . These are places which, for the most part, allow artists' studios and exhibition spaces to coexist, but also mediation activities intended for all audiences. They are strongly registered in the local territory, while developing programs of an international dimension. Their scope is as much aesthetic as social.
The Station is now 20 years old. It has seen about forty resident artists, currently twelve, who take care of keeping the structure alive on a daily basis, managing its administration, proposing artistic projects, welcoming the public, ensuring the assemblies, the dismantling ... Everyone, in their own way and on their own scale, has contributed and still contributes to the development of the association. Everyone also has their own vision, their own interpretation of their passage through the structure. The Station is today the sum of these individual and familiar stories. Like most artist-run spaces, it is a plastic structure, deformable and modular, sometimes anarchic, always alive, voluntary, resistant.
For its 20th anniversary, La Station is invited to exhibit at Villa Arson, where most of its residents are trained. So back to basics, but also recognition by the institution of its action during all these years. Faced with the symbolic significance of this invitation, it wished to remain faithful to its founding principles. She thus asked some of her current or past residents to invite other artist-run spaces to participate in this adventure. More than an invitation, artists are offered to work together, to invent collaborations or original production methods. About twenty structures and more than sixty artists are involved in this networking project.

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Most of the works will be produced for the exhibition. From the end of summer 2016, the Villa Arson welcomes artists in the form of residencies during which all can work on the realization of their works. They will be able to benefit from individual or technical workshops, transforming the establishment into a vast creative project.

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RUN, RUN, RUN, with an evocative title that embodies the spirit of endurance as much as that of the Velvet Underground (eponymous song written by Lou Reed in 1967), is therefore built as an open and plural exhibition, thought and conceived by artists , complex and experimental, but in any case deliberately determined to reflect the generous and transversal spirit of artist-run spaces. The plurality and diversity of practices in no way prevent “doing together”, the sharing of work and production. It is neither a subjective vision of art, nor an alternative posture, but indeed a pragmatic vision of the world, at least of what it should be.

List of invited structures (in progress): LM (Paris), CAN (Neuchâtel), LIEU COMMUN (Toulouse), CULTURAL ENTERPRISE (Paris), EXPERIMENTAL WORKSHOP (Clans), MACUMBA NIGHT CLUB ÉDITIONS (Paris), SNAP (Lyon), DAC (Dolceacqua), BF15 (Lyon), LE BON ACCUEIL (Rennes), WONDER (Paris), ZEBRA3 (Bordeaux), NUMBER 13 (Brussels), CLOVIS XV (Brussels), TANK ART SPACE (Marseille), RED DISTRICT (Marseille) ), PALAIS DES PARIS (Tokyo), MINDSCAPE UNIVERSE (Berlin, Paris), L'ESPACE D'EN BAS (Paris), FONDATION RENÉ D'AZUR (Nice) ...

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