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Borough Council Museum, Ipswich, Royaume-Uni
Bun Voyagi
Commissariat : Gavin Turk

17.07 > 28.08.2010

Bun Voyagi is a partnership between the Town Hall Galleries Ipswich and Commissions East as part of ‘FLEET: Art in the Haven Ports’ and shows a selection of work form the FRAC Nord-Pas de Calais. The exhibition, about language and journeys, takes its title from Gavin Turk’s experience of the travel process during his journey from Dover to Calais.

On checking-in as a foot passenger at Calais Ferry Terminal Turk was issued with a plastic card for the transit. These re-usable tokens, the dimensions of a credit card, exist as something to present or redeem at Customs as proof of crossing. Unremarkable, plain red in colour they wish their carriers well on their cross-channel journeys with the French farewell sentiment ‘BON VOYAGE’. The card issued on this particular occasion was well travelled with incidental wear and tear to its surface. Some of the black text had rubbed away to reveal a revised statement, ‘BUN VOYAGI’. Nonsensical and unrecognizable yet suggestive of another language, the transition and changed meaning implied some sort of cultural exchange.

Gavin Turk’s selection for Bun Voyagi demonstrates the FRAC’s historical focus on the interaction between art and design together with more recent acquisitions from emerging contemporary artists including works that consider geographical location and borders. Further ideas about identify, language, journeys and transience are implied though artist’s use of (transportable) media, systematic and coded identification as communicated trough text, maps, flags and grids.

Core to the project is Turk’s own contribution to ‘FLEET: Art in the Haven Ports’, a major programme of art and artists along the Suffolk and Essex coastline developed by Commissions East. Les bikes du bois Rond is a fleet of 20 hand-customised bicycles inspired by André Cadere’s transportable, striped wooden staffs. One of which is included in Bun Voyagi. A bike will be exhibited in the gallery as part of the crated exhibition. The others will be used to connect Fleet sites across two bike ride events before being displayed at Key Arts, St Mary at the Quay.

Artistes : Stanley Brouwn, André Cadere, Achille et Per Giacomo Castiglioni, Volker Albus, Alighiero Boetti, Claire Fontaine, Pierre Huygue, Bertrand Lavier, Urs Luthi, Stephen Maas, Roman Signer, Jacques Villeglé

Town Hall Galleries
Cornhill
Ipswich IP1 1QH
Tel: 01473 432863
www.visualarts-ipswich.org.uk

Opening times
Tuesday - Saturday, 10.00 - 17.00.
Free

Bun Voyagi
Borough Council Museum, Ipswich (GB)
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Bun Voyagi
Borough Council Museum, Ipswich (GB)
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Bun Voyagi
Borough Council Museum, Ipswich (GB)
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Bun Voyagi
Borough Council Museum, Ipswich (GB)
©D.R.

Bun Voyagi
Borough Council Museum, Ipswich (GB)
©D.R.