Claire Fontaine
BornFounded in Paris, France 2004
NationalityItalian / British
EducationUniversità degli Studi di Padova, Paris VIII / Glasgow School of Art
Known forConceptual art, Human Strike, ready-made artist
Notable workForeigners Everywhere (Arabic), 2005, In God They Trust, 2004
Websitewww.clairefontaine.ws
Untitled (on vous intoxique!), 2018
Claire Fontaine, Untitled (on vous intoxique!) (2018)
Claire Fontaine, Installation view from top to bottom: (PFW, Dior Autumn/Winter 2020) When women strike the world stops, 2020 / Newsfloor (Le Monde Pixelisé), 2020
When women strike the world stops (2020)/ Newsfloor (Le Monde Pixelisé) (2020)
Claire Fontaine, In God They Trust (2005)
Claire Fontaine, In God They Trust (2005). Twenty-five-cent coin, steel box-cutter blade, solder and rivet.
Claire Fontaine, Untitled (Negative) (2016)

Claire Fontaine is a feminist, conceptual artist, founded in Paris in 2004 by Fulvia Carnevale and James Thornhill, an Italian-British artist duo who declared themselves her assistants.[1] Since 2018 Claire Fontaine lives and works in Palermo and has a studio in the historical centre of the Kalsa near Piazza Magione.

After lifting her name from a popular brand of French school notebooks and stationary, Claire Fontaine declared herself a readymade artist[2][3] and began to elaborate a version of neo-conceptual art that often looks like other people's work. Claire Fontaine translated into English means "Clear Fountain" and can also be conceptually linked to the artwork Fountain by Marcel Duchamp, known as the most famous readymade.[4]

Work

Claire Fontaine uses the concept of the readymade as a way of criticising "production" disguised as a creation of more and more artefacts that are desirable because they superficially appear as new. Generally she works with appropriation on a formal level and she hijacks contents, using sculpture, installation, video and painting to create an emotionally loaded criticism of the author and the forms of authority at this stage of capitalism. This aesthetic approach that she describes as "expropriation", a way of giving an existential use value to pre-existing objects and artworks, also addresses the general crisis of singularity, which she describes as the individual and collective impossibility to give a meaning to one's life under the current political circumstance and the systematic surveillance, repression and countless limitations of our freedom. Claire Fontaine prefers to integrate the existing art circuit to create complicities and foster change which entails partaking in the mechanisms and subjects of the art industry including collectors, dealers and institutions.[5]

In an Interview with Circa Art Magazine in 2008 she states: "I think forming gangs, mafias, collectives, networks, bands of people is a way to survive in the hostile capitalist system and then eventually a way to become a pressure group, in order to transform these particular conditions."[6]

Writing and text based pieces play an important role in Claire Fontaine's work. She distributes texts in her exhibitions and she uses different registers in her writing such as poetry, critical theory, essays and manifestos. The artist criticises the hierarchy between visual and verbal expression.

In February 2020 she was invited by Maria Grazia Chiuri to create the mise-en-scène for Dior's Autumn/Winter 2020 collection for Paris Fashion Week which took place in the Les Tuileries. The artist used the catwalk to perform an operation of Institutional Critique investing the floor and the ceiling; she presented Newsfloor (Le Monde Pixelisé) (2020) and several large suspended LED signs stating for example: Patriarchy Kills Love, When women strike the world stops, Feminine beauty is a ready-made or Patriarchy = Climate emergency.[7][8]

Monographs

Books

Writings

Interviews

Solo exhibitions

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Notes on the state of exception Our emotional environment is poor and dangerous. Artistic work can't change it, but it can transcribe it. It can also give an opinion, which we are never asked for. When armed men kill whatever person in the middle of the crowd because he looks guilty, this reminds us a past that doesn't pass and a future that we would like not to know. Victims are already so numerous nowadays that it would be a mistake to be moved by another one. It would be pathetic to ask for justice : the only justice for a victim is the revenge and revenge feeds the war. Power's violence is not a catastrophe anymore, it is a symptom of something crucial : the end of the democratic lie that used to structure even our more rebellious dreams. The war that includes us has as a main characteristic the fact of looking like a series of casualties. It transforms us all into guilty victims. It makes us into foreigners in our own countries. The state of exception that we live in has become the rule, and the only way to survive it is to abandon our fear and despise the power's terror, through all the means we have left. Remembering everything, resisting through our memory, telling the stories that the domination silences, refusing to become victims of our own idea of security, this could be a beginning. CF 08/2005 Notes sur
Requiem for Jean-Charles de Menezes (2005)

References

  1. ^ Huberman, Anthony; Fontaine, Claire (2008). "Claire Fontaine". BOMB (105): 22–29. ISSN 0743-3204. JSTOR 40428018.
  2. ^ Fontaine, Claire (2014). "Ready-Made Artist". Qui Parle. 22 (2): 57–68. doi:10.5250/quiparle.22.2.0057. ISSN 1041-8385. JSTOR 10.5250/quiparle.22.2.0057. S2CID 146876233.
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  5. ^ "– Interview with Claire Fontaine: "Historical Fiction as Realism"". realism working group. 2008-05-25. Retrieved 2020-05-27.
  6. ^ Harbison, Isobel; Gianni, Ilaria (2008). "The Glue and the Wedge: The Cases of Claire Fontaine and Canell and Watkins". Circa (124): 48–53. doi:10.2307/25564920. ISSN 0263-9475. JSTOR 25564920.
  7. ^ "Artist Claire Fontaine on the Dior Autumn-Winter 2020–2021 Set". Retrieved 2020-05-28 – via YouTube.
  8. ^ "The incredible feminist decor from the Dior show in pictures". Vogue Paris. 25 February 2020. Retrieved 2020-05-27.
  9. ^ CLAIRE FONTAINE : newsfloor. [Place of publication not identified]: Verlag DER BUCHHANDLUNG W. 2019. ISBN 978-3-96098-689-8. OCLC 1126550396.
  10. ^ "VIAGGIO IN SICILIA #8 |Free Energy|Tribute to Ettore Majorana". Planeta Winery. Retrieved 2020-06-09.
  11. ^ Claire Fontaine (Artist collective) (2012). Claire Fontaine : foreigners everywhere. Museion (Bolzano, Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy). Köln: Walther König. ISBN 978-3-86335-170-0. OCLC 811743592.
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Further reading

External links

  1. ^ "Verso". versobooks.com. Retrieved 2020-06-09.
  2. ^ "Out of This Disaster, New Approaches to Art May Emerge". Literary Hub. 2020-05-21. Retrieved 2020-06-09.
  3. ^ "MAY, Quarterly Journal » On Claire Fontaine at Reena Spaulings, Los Angeles". mayrevue.com. Retrieved 2020-06-09.
  4. ^ "MAY, Quarterly Journal". mayrevue.com. Retrieved 2020-06-09.
  5. ^ "PFW FW20: Dior's Ode to the Past is a Path to the Future". Whitewall. 2020-02-26. Retrieved 2020-06-09.
  6. ^ Dürrholz, Johanna. "Paris Fashion Week: Sorry, das ist Poster-Feminismus". Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (in German). ISSN 0174-4909. Retrieved 2020-06-09.
  7. ^ A companion to feminist art. Robinson, Hilary, 1956–, Buszek, Maria Elena, 1971–. Hoboken, NJ. ISBN 978-1-118-92917-9. OCLC 1081376220.((cite book)): CS1 maint: others (link)
  8. ^ "Collettivi di artisti, sul mercato l'unione fa la forza". Il Sole 24 ORE (in Italian). Retrieved 2020-06-09.
  9. ^ "il primo amore". ilprimoamore.com. Retrieved 2020-06-09.
  10. ^ Beech, Dave (April 2019). "Marina Vishmidt: Speculation as a Mode of Production – Forms of Value Subjectivity in Art and Capital". Art Monthly. No. 425. pp. 37–38. ProQuest 2224924770.
  11. ^ Vishmidt, Marina. (2019). Speculation as a mode of production : forms of value subjectivity in art and capital. Chicago, IL: Haymarket Books. ISBN 978-1-64259-051-7. OCLC 1088740454.
  12. ^ Frantzen, Mikkel Krause (29 November 2019). Going nowhere, slow : the aesthetics and politics of depression. Winchester, UK. ISBN 978-1-78904-215-3. OCLC 1124609251.((cite book)): CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
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  15. ^ Mansoor, Jaleh, 1975– (30 September 2016). Marshall Plan modernism : Italian postwar abstraction and the beginnings of autonomia. Durham. ISBN 978-0-8223-6245-6. OCLC 930683605.((cite book)): CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
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  25. ^ Art since 1900 : modernism, antimodernism, postmodernism. Foster, Hal. (2nd ed.). London: Thames & Hudson. 2011. ISBN 978-0-500-23889-9. OCLC 765578047.((cite book)): CS1 maint: others (link)
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  32. ^ "Musings on the Mutinies to Come | The Village Voice". The Village Voice. 11 October 2005. Retrieved 2020-06-09.
  33. ^ Tiqqun. (2011). Conscious organ of the imaginary party : exercises in critical metaphysics (PDF). Paris: libcom.org. ISBN 978-1620490099. OCLC 896732445.
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