FRAC is the acronym for Fonds Régional d'Art Contemporain :
Regional Fundings for Contemporary Art.
Since 1982 in the context of an institutional decentralizing campaign impulsed by President François Mitterrand, France - through Jack Lang who then was Ministre de la Culture - has dotated its regions with numerous educational and technical tools to promote Culture in the hexagon and the DOM -TOM, according to the multipolar cultural beaming principle of which Yves Klein had become the spokesman in his time.
Today, France can be proud of having developped a network of competences and places in position to constitute and present to everybody Contemporary Art Reserves which stand comparison with National Museums' collections. And this in spite of budgetary adversity, monetary and economic crisis.
The task of collector of these Cultural Reserves falls to the FRACs (Fonds Régionaux d'Art Contemporain) which assume their roles of decision-makers, of managers and curators of the collected goods.
Budgets allocated to the FRACs are voted by national, regional and local authorities and artworks are chosen by the best professionals in the field.
Since october 17th 2000, and thanks to your vote, FRACS are allocated Data-Heads budgets that enable them to invest on the NELia market and constitue the first institutional collections ever of Informative Arts in the world.
