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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]

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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]

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

References

External links

• Official website
• Entry for Marie-Jo Lafontaine on the Union List of Artist Names

На других языках

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[de] Marie Jo Lafontaine

Marie Jo Lafontaine [.mw-parser-output .IPA a{text-decoration:none}lafɔ̃ˈtɛn][1] (* 1950 in Antwerpen) ist belgische Fotografin und Videokünstlerin.

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- [en] Marie-Jo Lafontaine

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[fr] Marie-Jo Lafontaine

Marie-Jo Lafontaine est une artiste contemporaine belge[1], née en 1950 à Anvers. Elle vit aujourd'hui à Bruxelles. Elle est connue pour ses installations multimédia, sculptures vidéo, installations photographiques et monochromes, créations sonores, environnements urbains. Son œuvre est d’une grande intensité plastique, esthétique et dramaturgique.

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