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Some have identified her photography as being documentary in style. She has received a great many prizes and awards, beginning with the Prix de la Jeune Peinture Beige in 1977. In addition, Marie-Jo Lafontaine’s books have been published in several languages including French, German and English, and are now carried in libraries and book stores around the world.
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Marie-Jo Lafontaine
Dance The World 2, 2010
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Art is a poetic attempt to master reality in its entirety.
Since 1992 she has been Professor of Media Arts at the Staatliche Hochschule für Gestaltung, Karlsruhe. She lives in Brussels.
In 1977 Lafontaine started to make tapestries, weaving black-dyed wool into emphatically linear patterns. In her sculptural work she used plaster, concrete and lead to create both organic and geometric forms.
In 1990 she held a guest professorship at the Salzburg Sommerakademie.
- Marie-Jo Lafontaine
Marie-Jo Lafontaine is a contemporaryconceptual artist born in Belgium. Since then her video sculpture has often been remarkable for its vast proportions: monitors and their pedestals appear to be the components of an ambitious architectural scheme and the ensemble assumes the character of a monument.
Biennale Internationale de la Tapisserie, Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne
1982 »World Video Festival«, Het Koetshuis, Den Haag
1984 »Electra«, Musée d'Art Moderne da la Ville de Paris; »Het Lumineuze Beeld«, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
1985 »Kunst mit Eigen-Sinn«, Museum des 20.
The dominating thematic association between Eros and Thanatos, passion and reason, is explored through powerful images of people and animals in extreme situations.
Individual exhibitions (selection)
1976 Galerie Walter Thompson, Brussels
1977 Galerie Anne Van Hoorenbeck, Brussels
1979 Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels
1981 Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
1984 »Octobre des Arts«, E.L.A.C., Lyon
1985 Tate Gallery, London
1986 »Des jeux pour rejouir le regard des Dieux«, Musée Cantini, Marseille; »A las cinco de la tarde«, Sprengel Museum Hannover
1988 Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; »Marie-Jo Lafontaine: Les Larmes d'Acier«, Öffentliche Kunstsammlung Basel, Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basle
1989 Jack Shainman Gallery, New York; Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
1990 »Passio«, Städtisches Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach; »Die Büchse der Pandora«, Museum Schloss Hardenberg, Velbert
1992 »History Is Against Forgiveness«, Goethe Institut, Brussels; »Jeder Engel ist schrecklich«, Nordjyllands Kunstmuseum, Aalborg, subsequently at Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Gasometer Oberhausen
1994 »Victoria«, Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, subsequently at Galerie Bugdahn und Kaimer, Art Cologne, Cologne; »Nuages et Mer«, Video-Installation, Lisboa 94, Lisbon; »Savoir retenir et fixer ce qui est sublime«, University Art Museum Califomia State, Long Beach
1995 ARS Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki; »lmmaculata«/»Belles de Nuit«, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris
1996 »La Nature Morte«, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg; Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Antwerp; »Au loin s'en vont les nuages«, Galerie Bugdahn und Kaimer, Düsseldorf
Group exhibitions (selection)
1977 »03 23 03 Rencontres Internationales d'Art Contemporain«, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
1978 »Prix de Jeune Peinture Belge«, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels
1979 »La Cambre 1928-78«, Musée d'Ixelles, Brussels; 11.
(Artist website)
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Marie-Jo Lafontaine focuses her works on human existence in all its varied forms. She studied (1975-79) at the École Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture et des Arts Visuels 'La Cambre', Brussels. She also engaged in photography notably, large images of women and children - and created image objects made of monochrome, painted wooden reliefs, several centimetres thick, usually incorporating a photographic image, with an inset text in bronze that invariably bestowed on such works an ambivalent emotional weight.
In 1980 Lafontaine started to use video, both in sculptural work and in installations and environments. She is best known for her sculpting and videos, but she also works with textiles, tapestry, video installations, still photography. Perhaps existential in theme, her compositions capture the beauty or intrigue of the world around us, or bring us to see people completely without contextual references which might sway our opinions in one way or another.
(2008) which is a lyrical film documenting dancers performing Flamenco and Tango; Steel Tears (1987) which is a video sculpture; or Babylon Babies, which is a series of portrait photographs of teenagers in large format on monochromatic backgrounds, published in book format. In 1986 she received a FIACRE grant from the French Ministry of Culture and in 1996 she won the European Photography Award.
Lafontaine’s art work has been exhibited at the LACMA, the Tate Gallery, the Centre Georges Pompidou, and the Palais des Beaux Arts in Brussels. Eine Weltreise, MARTa Herford
2011
Enfant en Danger - Enfant Dangereux, Gevaarlijk jong, Museum Dr. Guislain, Gent, Belgien
Selected Works, Huize Minne - Sint Martens Latem, Belgien
2019
Nude-Female Bodies by Female Artist, Postdam-Villa Schoeningen
Troubled Waters, Bruxelles BOZAR
2016
Künstlerräume, Weserburg - Museum für Moderne Kunst, Bremen
2015
Macht und Gewalt - Ohnmacht und Widerstand - Fotografie aus der DZ BANK Kunstsammlung, Neuer Kunstverein Aschaffenburg e.V., Aschaffenburg
2014
Marie-Jo Lafontaine: Victoria/Liquid Crystals, Lempertz Brüssel
2013
Das schwache Geschlecht – Neue Mannsbilder in der Kunst, Kunstmuseum Bern
Blütenzauber, Museum Bad Arolsen, Schloss Bad Arolsen
2012
Changing Perspectives-15 years of ECB´s art collection, ECB, Frankfurt
Asche und Gold.