Marie-Jo Lafontaine

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

Portrait of Marie-Jo Lafontaine

Lafontaine studied from 1975-1979 at l'École nationale supérieure d'architecture et des arts visuels.[7]

Lafontaine 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.[8][9]

She was awarded the Prix de la Jeune Peinture Belge in 1977[10]; in 1986 she was awarded a FIACRE grant from the French Ministry of Culture,[11] and in 1996 she won the European Photography Award.[12][13]

Critic Konstanze Thümmel describes the dominating themes her post-1980s video work as "association between Eros and Thanatos, passion and reason," and it Lafontaine explores these "...through powerful images of people and animals in extreme situations."[14][11]

Key Works
Partial View of Les larmes d'acier

Lafontaine is best known for her work Les larmes d'acier (1986).[15][16]

References
  1. 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 – via JSTOR.
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  8. "Marie-Jo Lafontaine | ZKM". zkm.de. Retrieved 2020-03-09.
  9. "Marie-Jo Lafontaine". IMMA. Retrieved 2020-03-10.
  10. "Marie-Jo Lafontaine : kunstenaar / artist at GALERIES.NL". www.galeries.nl. Retrieved 2019-03-04.
  11. "Marie-Jo Lafontaine | ZKM". zkm.de. Retrieved 2019-03-04.
  12. "Marie Jo Lafontaine". DLD Conference. Retrieved 2019-03-04.
  13. "Marie-Jo Lafontaine". www.ewva.ac.uk. Retrieved 2020-03-09.
  14. 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.
  15. "Lafontaine Works". www.ewva.ac.uk. Retrieved 2020-03-09.
  16. "Marie-Jo Lafontaine". IMMA. Retrieved 2020-03-10.


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