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Marie-Jo Lafontaine (born 17 November 1950) is a Belgian sculptor and video artist.[1][2][3] She lives and works as a Professor of Media Arts at the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design in Brussels.[4][5][6]

Lafontaine is from Antwerp (Anvers), Belgium.[1] She studied from 1975 to 1979 at l'École nationale supérieure d'architecture et des arts visuels.[6]

She has worked in many media including "tapestries" in which she weaves black-dyed wool into linear patterns; sculptural work using plaster, concrete, and lead; and photography. In 1980, Lafontaine started using video in her sculptures and has created installations and environments utilizing video.[6][7]

She was awarded the Prix de la Jeune Peinture Belge in 1977;[8] a FIACRE grant from the French Ministry of Culture in 1986,[9] and in 1996 the European Photography Award.[10][2]

Critic Konstanze Thümmel describes the dominating themes in her post-1980s video work as "association between Eros and Thanatos, passion and reason," and that Lafontaine explores these "...through powerful images of people and animals in extreme situations."[11][9]

Partial View of Les larmes d'acier

Lafontaine is best known for her work Les larmes d'acier (1986).[12][7]

References

  1. ^ a b Blakey, Richard (1990). "'Marie-Jo Lafontaine' and Those Who Would Seek to Know, to Fix and to Hold That Which Is Not". Third Text. 4 (12): 41–58. doi:10.1080/09528829008576277 – via JSTOR.
  2. ^ a b "Marie-Jo Lafontaine". www.ewva.ac.uk. Retrieved 2020-03-09.
  3. ^ "Art Wiki : MariejoLafontaine". www.artwiki.fr. Retrieved 2020-03-09.
  4. ^ "Marie-Jo Lafontaine". the-artists.org. 2008-12-28. Retrieved 2020-03-09.
  5. ^ "Marie-Jo Lafontaine". Artspace. Retrieved 2020-03-09.
  6. ^ a b c "Marie-Jo Lafontaine | ZKM". zkm.de. Retrieved 2020-03-09.
  7. ^ a b "Marie-Jo Lafontaine". IMMA. Retrieved 2020-03-10.
  8. ^ "Marie-Jo Lafontaine : kunstenaar / artist at GALERIES.NL". www.galeries.nl. Retrieved 2019-03-04.
  9. ^ a b "Marie-Jo Lafontaine | ZKM". zkm.de. Retrieved 2019-03-04.
  10. ^ "Marie Jo Lafontaine". DLD Conference. Retrieved 2019-03-04.
  11. ^ Klotz, Heinrich (1997). Contemporary Art: The Collection of the ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe. Munich, New York: Prestel. pp. 172–177, 309. ISBN 3-7913-1869-1.
  12. ^ "Lafontaine Works". www.ewva.ac.uk. Retrieved 2020-03-09.

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