Claire Fontaine

Claire Fontaine
BornFounded in Paris, France 2004
NationalityItalian / British
EducationUniversità degli Studi di Padova, Paris VIII / Glasgow School of Art
Known forConceptual art, Human Strike, ready-made artist
Notable workForeigners Everywhere (Arabic), 2005, In God They Trust, 2004
Websitehttp://www.clairefontaine.ws
Untitled (on vous intoxique!), 2018
Claire Fontaine, Untitled (on vous intoxique!) (2018)
Claire Fontaine, Installation view from top to bottom: (PFW, Dior Autumn/Winter 2020) When women strike the world stops, 2020 / Newsfloor (Le Monde Pixelisé), 2020
When women strike the world stops (2020)/ Newsfloor (Le Monde Pixelisé) (2020)
Claire Fontaine, In God They Trust (2005)
Claire Fontaine, In God They Trust (2005). Twenty-five-cent coin, steel box-cutter blade, solder and rivet.
Claire Fontaine, Untitled (Negative) (2016)

Claire Fontaine is a feminist, conceptual artist, founded in Paris in 2004 by Fulvia Carnevale and James Thornhill, an Italian-British artist duo who declared themselves her assistants.[1] Since 2018 Claire Fontaine lives and works in Palermo and has a studio in the historical centre of the Kalsa near Piazza Magione.

After lifting her name from a popular brand of French school notebooks and stationery, Claire Fontaine declared herself a readymade artist[2][3] and began to elaborate a version of neo-conceptual art that often looks like other people's work. Claire Fontaine translated into English means "Clear Fountain" and can also be conceptually linked to the artwork Fountain by Marcel Duchamp, known as the most famous readymade.[4]

  1. ^ Huberman, Anthony; Fontaine, Claire (2008). "Claire Fontaine". BOMB (105): 22–29. ISSN 0743-3204. JSTOR 40428018.
  2. ^ Fontaine, Claire (2014). "Ready-Made Artist". Qui Parle. 22 (2): 57–68. doi:10.5250/quiparle.22.2.0057. ISSN 1041-8385. JSTOR 10.5250/quiparle.22.2.0057. S2CID 146876233.
  3. ^ "Claire Fontaine". OperaViva Magazine (in Italian). Retrieved 2020-05-26.
  4. ^ "Claire Fontaine". frieze. No. 105. ISSN 0962-0672. Retrieved 2020-05-27.