Milléniales Exhibition at Frac Nouvelle-Aquitaine Explores Painting 2000-2020
The Frac Nouvelle-Aquitaine Méca in Bordeaux is currently hosting the exhibition 'Milléniales, peintures 2000-2020,' curated by Vincent Pécoil. This showcase features paintings from French collections that have emerged since 2000, exploring the interaction between painting and digital technology. It highlights how traditional genres—such as history, portrait, landscape, and still life—are both challenged and transformed. Among the diverse artists represented are Nicolas Milhé, Kelley Walker, Nina Childress, and many others, totaling over 30 contributors, including notable names like Wade Guyton and Sarah Morris. This exhibition is associated with the artpress dossier 'Abstractions impures' from issue 485, published in February 2021.
Key facts
- Exhibition 'Milléniales, peintures 2000-2020' held at Frac Nouvelle-Aquitaine Méca, Bordeaux, in autumn 2020.
- Curated by Vincent Pécoil, selecting paintings from French collections created between 2000 and 2020.
- Exhibition organized around traditional genres: history, portrait, landscape, still life.
- Works include Nicolas Milhé's red fluorescent on electoral panel and Kelley Walker's chocolate-covered civil rights protest image.
- Portraits feature Jean-Luc Blanc's 'Fireman', Simon Rayssac's hair study, Eliza Douglas's boots and t-shirts, Wade Guyton's X.
- Landscape includes Flora Moscovici's in situ painting, Vincent Ganivet's smoke rings, and works by Ida Tursic & Wilfried Mille.
- Still life includes Bertrand Lavier's silver pylon, Gerald Petit's fires, Jean-Marie Blanchet's wooden slats.
- Exhibition corresponds with artpress issue 485 (February 2021) dossier 'Abstractions impures'.
- Photographs by Gaëlle Deleflie document the exhibition.
- Exhibition argues that figurative painting is not the only resurgence; abstraction also remains vital.
Entities
Artists
- Vincent Pécoil
- Nicolas Milhé
- Kelley Walker
- Nina Childress
- Sadie Benning
- Jean-Luc Blanc
- Simon Rayssac
- Eliza Douglas
- Wade Guyton
- John Miller
- Nicolas H. Muller
- Sylvie Fanchon
- Florian Quistrebert
- Michael Quistrebert
- Philippe Decrauzat
- Jane Harris
- Flora Moscovici
- Vincent Ganivet
- Ida Tursic
- Wilfried Mille
- Bernard Frize
- Peter Halley
- Blair Thurman
- Sarah Morris
- Anne-Charlotte Finel
- Damien Mazières
- Sérgio Sister
- David Evrard
- Mimosa Echard
- Hugo Pernet
- Bertrand Lavier
- Gerald Petit
- Jean-Marie Blanchet
- Gaëlle Deleflie
- Didier Arnaudet
- Michael Scott
Institutions
- Frac Nouvelle-Aquitaine Méca
- artpress
Locations
- Bordeaux
- France
Sources
- artpress —