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A special artist curated booth by Claire Fontaine will be presented at the Code Art Fair 2017, scheduled to be held at Copenhagen.
Read MoreThe exhibition at Museo Pietro Canonica is the first ever of Ciprian Mureşan in a public institution in Rome.
Read MoreTake Me (I’m Yours) is a re-staging of a show that first appeared at the Serpentine Gallery in 1995, when it was conceived of by curator Hans Ulrich Obrist and artist Christian Boltanski. In this 2016 New York edition, curators Obrist and Jens Hoffmann feature more works by 42 artists.
Read MoreFirst ever exhibition of the collective in a public institution in Rome, the project by Claire Fontaine at Museo Pietro Canonica is part of a series of exhibitions titled “Fortezzuola”, and sponsored by Roma Capitale—Sovrintendenza Capitolina ai Beni Culturali.
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Read More“Claire Fontaine: Love is Never Enough” is currently on view at Air de Paris in Paris.
Read MoreIf I had a spirit animal, it would probably be a toaster. So the cloud of spiritual incense that floats around in Stephen Mueller’s paintings has always prevented me from enjoying them. My mind wanders when religious imagery demands to be acknowledged.
Read MoreAt the center of Claire Fontaine’s new show, “Stop Seeking Approval,” is a series of monochrome paintings, in gray, a burnt red, and black. They have been painted using anti-climb paint, their colors dictated by price and availability.
Read MoreSo much of what passes for neo-conceptual art — and there is a glut of it these days — would be more accurately labeled "conceptually art."
Read MoreNew National Museum in Monaco presents the exhibition Construire une Collection (Building a Collection), a selection of works purchased over the past ten years. It takes place in both exhibition areas of the NMNM, first of all from January at the Villa Paloma, and then from March at the Villa Sauber.
Read MorePicasso at MoMA, Cézanne at the Met, Benglis, Abbott, Hockney, Riley, Bourgeois, Arcangel and many more
Read MoreA Mission Street art gallery may be in trouble after San Francisco firefighters responded Tuesday night to a fire intentionally set there, apparently as part of an art piece.
Read MoreHow do maps age? Perhaps they transform as they decay, changing from tools into documents of historical relations, artifacts of visual design
Read MoreCondo, Staging Action at MoMA, Lichtenstein, Mapplethorpe, Toulouse-Lautrec, Kentridge, Nutt, Tuymans and many more.
Read MoreA little boy holds a kite reel; next to him, a girl holds the kite's string as another flings her arms up to the kite in the hope of catching it.
Read MoreThe 13th Istanbul Biennial opens its doors to the public on Sept 14 and its exhibits, on display in venues situated in the centre of the city,
Read MoreMOSCOW.- "Who needs a world view?" This panel discussion caused a big rush during the 11th International Istanbul Biennial of Contemporary Art. There
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Read MoreThe CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts is pleased to present a new set of limited editions created by renowned artists
Read MoreA Mission Street art gallery may be in trouble after San Francisco firefighters responded Tuesday night to a fire intentionally set there, apparently as part of an art piece.
Read MoreHow do maps age? Perhaps they transform as they decay, changing from tools into documents of historical relations, artifacts of visual design
Read MoreA little boy holds a kite reel; next to him, a girl holds the kite's string as another flings her arms up to the kite in the hope of catching it.
Read MoreThe 13th Istanbul Biennial opens its doors to the public on Sept 14 and its exhibits, on display in venues situated in the centre of the city,
Read MoreMOSCOW.- "Who needs a world view?" This panel discussion caused a big rush during the 11th International Istanbul Biennial of Contemporary Art. There
Read MoreLast year, "In The World But Don't Know The World" by Ghanaian artist El Anatsui at London's October Gallery was one of Art Dubai's most talked-about
Read MoreThe Bolzano show presents a selection of previous works and new creations: videos, neon signs, installations and the collective’s “machinery-sculptures"
Read MoreThe Serralves Museum in Oporto, Portugal presents an exhibition titled “To the arts, citizens!”
Read MoreArt types and insomniacs gathered at Café Grumpy in Chelsea Monday for a 7 a.m. artists talk between Fulvia Carnevale and James Thornhill, the artists
Read MoreThe neon sign over the door by Paris-based collective Claire Fontaine suggests a Dante-esque Divine Comedy awaits. “Part consortium, part collective,
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Claire Fontaine is a Paris-based collective artist, founded in 2004. After lifting her name from a popular brand of school notebooks, Claire Fontaine declared herself a "readymade artist" and began to elaborate a version of neo-conceptual art that often looks like other people's work. Working in neon, video, sculpture, painting and text, her practice can be described as an ongoing interrogation of the political impotence and the crisis of singularity that seem to define contemporary art today. But if the artist herself is the subjective equivalent of a urinal or a Brillo box—as displaced, deprived of its use value, and exchangeable as the products she makes—there is always the possibility of what she calls the "human strike." Claire Fontaine uses her freshness and youth to make herself a whatever-singularity and an existential terrorist in search of subjective emancipation. She grows up among the ruins of the notion of authorship, experimenting with collective protocols of production, détournements, and the production of various devices for the sharing of intellectual and private property.
Recent shows include, Arbeit Macht Kapital, Kubus, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus und Kunstbau, München, They Hate Us For Our Freedom, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, Lucky In The Misfortune, Masion Descartes, Institut Français des Pays-Bas, Amsterdam, Feux de Détresse, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris et Claire Fontaine, The Exhibition Formerly Known as Passengers, 2.10, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Franscisco. Claire Fontaine is represented by Reena Spaulings Fine Art, New York, T293, Napoli, Galerie Neu, Berlin and Galerie Chantal Crousel / Air de Paris, Paris.
She is now preparing a book around the concepts of ready-made artist and human strike.
Paris, June 2009
(Text from www.clairefontaine.ws)
Claire Fontaine is represented by Galerie Chantal Crousel in Paris, Air de Paris in Paris, Galerie NEU in Berlin, T293 in Naples, Reena Spaulings Fine Art in New York and Dvir Gallery in Tel Aviv.
For additional information about this artist, visit Mutual Art