OPERA IN CONCORSO Sezione Scultura/Installazione
FASO CHAUSSURE
shoes making, tires, dyed cow and synthetic leather.
3 meter x 2.5 meter at a wall
Gilles Fontolliet
nato/a a Zürich, Switzerland
residenza di lavoro/studio: Zürich (SWITZERLAND)
iscritto/a dal 13 apr 2015
Under 35
Descrizione Opera / Biografia
FASO CHAUSSURE
Shoes | Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso | 2015
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In the streetfactory ”FASO CHAUSSURE” in the center of Ouagadougou are made innumerable sandals everyday. During my last stay in Burkina Faso I made sneaker classics with the shoemaker Ibrahim - from tires, dyed cow and synthetic leather.
There are 6 Sneakers for your show: ADIDAS, NIKE, ONITSUKA, REEBOK, CONVERSE, PUMA
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Gilles Fontolliet
1981 – based in Zurich, Switzerland
www. fontolliet.net
Stipends, Prizes
2015 Arte Laguna Prize | Winner, Video Art & Perfomance | Venice | Italy
2015 Arte Laguna Prize | Winner, special prize
2013 Stipend | City of Zurich | Award | Zurich
2013 Brioni Summit of Practical Utopias | Residency | Croatia
2012 Pro Helvetia Artistic Research Stipendium | Lebanon, Palestine
2011 Pro Helvetia Atelier Stipend | Amman | Jordan
Solo exhibitions
2015 Nachbilder | mit Marks Blond | Kino Kunstmuseum Bern | Bern
2015 FASO CHAUSSURE | Lokal-int | Biel
2013 Thalwil (1986 - 2002) | Artbox | Kulturtage Thalwil | Thalwil
2012 Things I found in places I don’t belong. | Grand Palais | Berne
2012 no comment | Lokal-int | Biel
The Palestinian Space Agency | project & book presentation |
Zico House, Beirut, Lebanon | International Academy of Art of Palestine
The Palestinian Space Agency | project & book presentation |
Zico House, Beirut, Lebanon | International Academy of Art of Palestine
Ramallah, Palestine | The Jenin Freedom Theatre, Jenin, Palestine |
Al Mahatta Gallery, Ramallah, Palestine | Das Lehrerzimmer, Berne,
a moment without gravity | book launch | Darat al Fanun | Amman
2011 the agency | exhibition | Darat al Funun , Amman , Jordan
Group Shows
2015 Premio Arte Laguna | Arsenale | Venice| Italy
ART NOVA 100 | Peking | China
Arte en Órbita | Centro de Arte Contemporaneo | Quito | Ecuador
2013 Monitoring | 30. Dokfest | Kassel | Germany
Stipends from the city of Zurich 2013 | Helmhaus | Zurich Switzerland
Multiples | Kulturlabor | Thalwil | Switzerland
2012 Kunstkonsum | Lokal-int | Biel | Switzerland
Bildwelten 6 | R57 | Zurich | Switzerland
Transform / Versuchsanordnung 2 | Berne | Switzerland
Artifariti Festival | Boujdour Refugee Camp | Algeria
„money money“ | Kulturlabor | Thalwil | Switzerland
2010 Kommentare zur Kunstvermittlung | Dittinghaus | Zurich | Switzerland
2008 Filming - an attempt | ZHDK | Zurich | Switzerland
Bildwelten 2 | R57 | Zurich | Switzerland