Museo de Huarte

LIBERTY, EQUALITY, FRATERNITY Rooms 1,2 and 3

• Date: 2009-12-02 - 2010-03-07
• Title: LIBERTY, EQUALITY, FRATERNITY
• Author/ess: Group

Organised by: The Government of Navarre and the State Society forCultural Commemorations (SECC)

Onthe occasion of the Bicentenary of the War of Independence, the State Societyfor Cultural Commemorations (SECC), with the co-ordination of the Ministry ofCulture and the Government of Navarre, have organised an exhibition entitledLIBERTY, EQUALITY, FRATERNITY. For this exhibition, 15 Spanish, 14 French and 2Portuguese artists have each been invited to present a work which reflects the developmentstatus of these three ideals of coexistence in today's society, ideals whichcan be traced back to the French Revolution of 1789.

Bernard Marcadé, for France, and Isabel Durán, for Spain, are the curatorsof this exhibition which is showing at the Huarte Contemporary Art Centre and whichbrings together works from the following artists: Antoni Abad, Jean-MichelAlberola, Elisabeth Ballet, Christian Boltanski, José Manuel Broto, Jean-MarcBustamante, Daniel Canogar, Rui Chafes, Chema Cobo, Ninar Esber, JoanFontcuberta, Luis Gordillo, Cristina Iglesias, Cristina Lucas, AnnetteMessager, François Morellet, Jean-Luc Moulène, Antoni Muntadas, FrancisNaranjo, Marina Núñez, Bruno Peinado, Gonçalo Pena, Jaume Plensa, BernardíRoig, Fernando Sánchez Castillo, Alain Séchas, Bruno Serralongue, Niele Toroni,Tatiana Trouvé, Eulàlia Valldosera and Yan Pei-Ming. As an added bonus,Dionisio Cañas and Carlos Edmundo de Ory are also to be present at theexhibition with some of their poems.

 LIBERTY, EQUALITY, FRATERNITY (LEF) is a reflection on the current statusof these three ideals of coexistence, using a medium which most contributes tohuman enrichment: art.

 France and Spain, Spain and France, former enemies, now brothers. Theparticipation of the two Portuguese artists in the exhibition represents aslight deviation, a necessary correction to history, given the fact thatPortugal has been and always will be a brother country, then and now.