The Frac Centre-Val de Loire, formerly known as Frac Centre, is a public collection of
contemporary art
Contemporary art is a term used to describe the art of today, generally referring to art produced from the 1970s onwards. Contemporary artists work in a globally influenced, culturally diverse, and technologically advancing world. Their art is a ...
of the
Centre-Val de Loire
Centre-Val de Loire (; ,In isolation, ''Centre'' is pronounced . ) or Centre Region (, ), as it was known until 2015, is one of the eighteen Regions of France, administrative regions of France. It straddles the middle Loire Valley in the interior ...
region in France, part of the national Frac network. It is based in
Orléans
Orléans (,"Orleans" (US) and Jakob + MacFarlane.
History
Since 1999, the Frac Centre-Val de Loire has organized a series of contemporary art exhibits featuring both local and global work, titled ''ArchiLab'' and focused on architecture. The collection includes some 13,000 works, 700 architectural models and more than 12,000 drawings. It traces the history of the visionary architects of the 1960s, the utopian and radical architecture of the 1970s, and the deconstructivists of the 1980s. It also features contemporary Japanese architects and illustrates the impact of digital technologies on architecture.
Other museums have held exhibits dedicated to the Frac Centre-Val de Loire collection, including Tokyo's Mori Art Museum and the Barbican's ''Future City'' exhibit in 2007.Alison, Jane, Brayer, Marie-Ange, Migayrou, Frédéric, Spiller, Neil, ''Future City. Experiment and Utopia in Architecture'', Ed. Thames & Hudson, 2007