Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster

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Full Name	Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster
Occupation	Artist
Date Of Birth	Jun 30, 1965(1965-06-30)
Age	59
Birthplace	Strasbourg
Country	France
Horoscope	Gemini

Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster Biography

Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster is one of the most popular and richest Artist who was born on June 30, 1965 in Strasbourg, France. Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster was born Strasbourg, France in 1965. At 17 years old, she began working as a guard at the museum in Grenoble as she was a student at the Ecole du Magasin of the National Centre of Contemporary Art in Grenoble. She also completed her studies at the Institute des Hautes Etudes en Arts Plastiques located in Paris. She started her career being an artist during the late 1990s with a focus on film. Her first work was mostly simple, minimalist and one-dimensional films. Now, she collaborates on everything from the creation of the science fiction novel co-artist Philippe Parreno to working with the singer-songwriter Alain Bashung for setting design. She also worked with the fashion house Balenciaga in the design of displays for their stores in New York and Paris. She created a home for an avid collector in Tokyo.

The show was titled “The Unilever Series: Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster: TH.2058″ and was on display within the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern in Londonhttps from October 14th, 2008 until April 13th in 2009. The opening ceremony of the show, Dominique stated, ” Some months ago, I used to wake up in the silence of the night to think about what I was going to do. But not anymore. People ask me, ‘Are you scared?’ No, I am not scared. If I was, I wouldn’t do it. Rather, I’m excited. I am putting one third of my energy into just staying calm. The work is on such a scale that if you got too excited, you would explode,”. This was her first commission for public viewing to the UK and filled half the hall’s 3,400 square meters. “TH.2058 by Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, imagines Tate Modern 50 years into the future, set in a London afflicted by perpetual rain. Tate Modern is being used as a shelter for people, a storage space for art works and for the remains of culture. The vast Turbine Hall is filled with monumental replicas of iconic sculptural works. Rows of bunk beds are scattered with books, and on a giant screen The Last Film is continuously running. Made up of short excerpts from science-fiction films, The Last Film suggests a potential state of catastrophe as well as the possibility of collective memory,”.

She took part in both the 2006 Sao Paulo Art Biennial and the 2009 Venice Biennale.

Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster Net Worth

Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster is one of the richest Artist from France. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster (born 30 June 1965 located in Strasbourg) is an artist from the country of Strasbourg. French artist from France. She is well- known for her video projection work photographs, video projection, as well as spatial installation. She has also worked in design, landscaping, and also writing. “I always look for experimental processes. I like the fact that at the beginning I don’t know how to do things and then, slowly, I start learning. Often exhibitions don’t give me this learning possibility anymore.”

Inspired by literature, film as well as modernist architecture and art history her work is typically marked by a calm intimate and intimate exploration of the contemporary urban environment. In many instances, she uses fragments from her travels in her work, and then creates new works from them. “My approach to art is quite radical. It has more to do with theater and staging than making objects such as paintings or sculptures. Sometimes I think that the fetishism of objects is pathetic. It’s one way to deal with art, but I’m obsessed with other things”. Her hope is that her art will encourage viewers to be more involved with them. “I want to coax people to engage with my art, in the same way that a writer might entice people to read a book”. She was awarded an artist’s residency at Villa Kujoyama, Kyoto in 1996 and in 1996, the Mies Van der Rohe Prize at Krefeld at the time of her death in 1996 as well as the 2002 Marcel Duchamp Prize in Paris. In the 2015/2016 season at the Vienna State Opera Gonzalez-Foerster designed an enormous painting (176 square meters) in the series of exhibitions “Safety Curtain”, conceived by a museum in process. She is a resident and artist between Paris in Paris and Rio de Janeiro.

The installation at the Hispanic Society of America in New York was installed in 2009 and was entitled “chronotopes & dioramas”. The Hispanic Society of America is a museum and research library with an impressive collection of paintings, decorative objects, books, documents, prints, and photographs. However, Dominique discovered it only had a limited supply of 20th century literature and wanted to fill in the gaps. She enlisted help from experts at the American Museum of Natural History. The project involved crafting three habitats in which volumes by nearly 40 authors replaced taxidermied fauna. One evokes water and verticality; another, aridity and flatness; the third, trailing vines. They represent three zones: North America, the Desert, and the Tropics. Aside from the books, each diorama contains a single, mute trace of human presence. In the underwater ocean scene there is an oil barrel. In the desert scene there are ruins of a concrete bunker. In the tropical scene there is a desolate, glass house. They each show the wear and tear of passing time. Many of the books in the dioramas are about anxiety and exile. She also created a mural-sized calligram (an arrangement of words that creates a related visual image). This is Mikhail Bakhtin’s concept of the chronotope; “functioning as the primary means for materializing time in space with the novel”. The installation is housed in an annex to the library.

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