{"id":7,"date":"2016-09-10T13:44:12","date_gmt":"2016-09-10T13:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.etiennedefrance.com\/?page_id=7"},"modified":"2024-07-16T14:43:45","modified_gmt":"2024-07-16T12:43:45","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.etiennedefrance.com\/index.php\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"ABOUT"},"content":{"rendered":"

Etienne de France (b. 1984, Paris) is a visual artist, currently based in Paris, France. After studying Art History & Archaeology in Paris, he completed a B.A in Visual Arts at the Iceland Art Academy of Reykjavik in 2008.
\nUnfolding his practice through films, photography, writing, drawing and installation, the artist is engaged into a long-term research on the relationships between notions of nature and landscape.
\nHis first works questioned the liminal spaces between fiction and reality, science and imagination, a practice illustrated by his film and body of works Tales of a Sea Cow<\/em> (2012), a dialog with biologists on the interactions between animal and human cultures. Since 2012, his practice has been engaged into a questioning of landscape as a space of resilience and imagination, developing cooperation with farmers, environmental activists and architects, such as in the works The Green Vessel<\/em> (2015-2019), Looking for the Perfect Landscape <\/em>(2017) and Field <\/em>(2020).<\/p>\n

Etienne de France CV
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\n1984, in Paris (France).
\nLives and works between Marmeaux and Paris (France).<\/p>\n

Education\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

2005-2008 : B.A, Visual Arts, Iceland Academy of Arts, Reykjavik, Iceland.
\n2005-2002 : Bachelor in Art History, University of Paris 1 Sorbonne, Paris, France.
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Solo Exhibitions (selection)
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2023 : The Telling of the Oaks<\/em>, La Maison Composer, Les Piloux, France
\n2019 : Champ, <\/em>Hors Cadre, Auxerre, France.
\n2016 : From The Green Vesse<\/em>l, Te Whare Her\u0101 Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand.
\n2015 : The <\/em>Vessels,<\/em> \u00c9cole<\/em> Nationale Sup\u00e9rieure d’Architecture<\/em> de Paris-La Villette<\/em>, Paris, France.
\n2014 : Rise<\/em>, BYCR Gallery, Milan, Italy.
\n2012\u00a0: Tales of a Sea Cow<\/em>, Parco Arte Vivente, Torino, Italy.
\n2010\u00a0: Icelandtrain Collection Fashion Show<\/em>, National Gallery of Iceland
\n2007\u00a0: Utopia and Last Blah-Blah Before You Go<\/em>, \u00c1si Art Center, Reykjavik, Iceland.<\/p>\n

Group exhibitions (selection)<\/strong><\/p>\n

2022 : Del cielo al agua y lo que est\u00e1 en el centro<\/em>, MAC-Museo de Arte Contempor\u00e1neo, Santiago, Chili.
\n2022\u00a0: Les Territoires et la Carte<\/em>, Centre Culturel Jean Cocteau, Les Lilas, France.
\n2021\u00a0: Atterrir<\/em>, CAC La Ferme du Buisson, Noisiel, France.
\n2021 : Breathturn<\/em>, Ostrale Biennale for Contemporary Art, Dresden, Germany.
\n2020 : Ecology and New Functionality.<\/em>\u2028<\/em> Evolving Relations Between Man and Nature, <\/em>online exhibition, curated by Victoria Kondrashova, Marina Vinogradova, Dmitry Ryabkov.
\n2020 : DE-celerate<\/em>, Te Tuhi Art Centre, Auckland, New-Zealand.
\n2019 : El tercer paisaje<\/em>, 14th Bienal de Artes Mediales, Santiago, Chile.
\n2019 : Paroxysm of Sublime<\/em>, LACE, Los Angeles, USA.
\n2019 : From the island to the world<\/em>, International Center of Art and Landscape at Vassivi\u00e8re Island, France.
\n2019 : Once a time in the West<\/em>, Frac Nouvelle-Aquitaine M\u00c9CA, France.
\n2018\u00a0: Dom\u00f3ticas para hoy y ma\u00f1ana: La f\u00e1bula de abandonar tu zona de confort, <\/em>Artbo Salitre, Bogot\u00e1, Colombia.
\n2018 : Expanded Documentary Film Section<\/em>, International Documentary Exhibition of Bogot\u00e1-MIDBO, Pontificial University Javeriana of Bogot\u00e1, Colombia.
\n2017\u00a0: Cubo Arte, <\/em>Fundaci\u00f3n Mar Adentro, La Serena-Coquimbo, Chile.
\n2017\u00a0: Le Mus\u00e9e Passager<\/em>, \u00cele de France Region, France.
\n2017\u00a0: Eterna trilogia: retratos, paisagens e naturezas-mortas<\/em>, Museu de Arte Brasileira, S\u00e3o Paulo, Brazil.
\n2016\u00a0: \u00c9chos Sauvages, <\/em>Atelier Alain Le Bras, Nantes, France.
\n2016\u00a0: Forget the architecture : 25 years of architecture in Vassivi\u00e8re<\/em>, <\/strong>International Center of Art and Landscape at Vassivi\u00e8re Island, France.
\n2016\u00a0: KINGDOM \u2013 Flora, Fauna, Fable, <\/em>Reykjav\u00edk Art Museum, Iceland.
\n2014 : Hors les Murs,<\/em> National Museum of Natural History, FIAC, France.
\n2013 : Mediterranea 16<\/em>, MKC-Multimedia Center Split, Croatia.
\n2013 : Vues<\/em>, Domaine de Chamarande, France.
\n2013 : Alternative Nomadi-Mediterranea 16<\/em>, MA*GA Museum, Milano, Italy.
\n2013 : Who Controls the Controllers (?),<\/em> Galleria Clou, Ragusa, Italy.
\n2013 : Milieux<\/em>, Domaine de Chamarande, Chamarande, France.
\n2012\u00a0: Inspired by Iceland<\/em>, National Gallery of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland.
\n2011\u00a0: Subduction<\/em>, We-Space, Brusells, Belgium.
\n2010\u00a0: Nine<\/em>, Kopavogur Art Museum, Kopavogur, Iceland.
\n2009\u00a0: E-MobiLart Exhibition<\/em>, State Museum of Modern Art, Thessaloniki, Greece.
\n2008\u00a0: The Word of God<\/em>, Akureyri Art Museum, Iceland.<\/p>\n

Selected festivals\u00a0and screenings (selection)
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2022 : Tales of a Sea Cow, <\/em>Festival de l’Histoire de l’Art de Fontainebleau, France.
\n2022 : Tales of a Sea Cow, <\/em>JIFA, Mus\u00e9e du Louvre, Paris, France.
\n2021 : Champ (film),<\/em> Ferme du Buisson, Noisiel, France.
\n2021 : Retrospective screening and seminar<\/em>,\u00a0 Doc\u2019s Kingdom, Lisboa, Portugal.
\n2020 : The Green Vessel (film<\/em>), TEA Tenerife Espacio de las Artes, Tenerife, Spain.
\n2020 : Champ (film),<\/em> Doclisboa, Lisboa, Portugal.
\n2019 : The Green Vessel (film)<\/em>, Synesth\u00e9sie MMaintenant, Saint-Denis, France.
\n2019 : Looking for the Perfect Landscape (film), <\/em>MAC Lyon, France.
\n2019 : The Green Vessel (film)<\/em>, FIDMarseille, Marseille, France.
\n2019\u00a0: Looking for the Perfect Landscape (film), <\/em>Fondation d\u2019entreprise Ricard, Paris, France.
\n2018 : VideoVideo<\/em>, 9th Edition Festival Video Art, Besanceuil, France.
\n2017\u00a0: Looking for the Perfect Landscape (film), <\/em>Parker, Colorado River Indian Tribe.
\n2017\u00a0: Looking for the Perfect Landscape (film), <\/em>Echo Park Film Center, Flax Foundation, Los Angeles, United States.
\n2017 : <\/em>Tales of a Sea Cow<\/em> (film), <\/em>Fundaci\u00f3n Mar Adentro, in the context of the 4th International Marine Protected Congress, La Serena-Coquimbo, Chile.
\n2017 : <\/em>Field<\/em> (film), <\/em>Contemporary Art Center of Ivry \u2013 Cr\u00e9dac, France.
\n<\/em>2017\u00a0: Tales of a Sea Cow (film), 1st Antarctic Biennale, Antarctica.
\n2016 : Tales of a Sea Cow<\/em> (film), Massey University, Wellington, New Zealand.
\n2015 : Tales of a Sea Cow<\/em> (film), FLORA Ars+Natura, Bogot\u00e1, Colombia.
\n2015 : Tales of a Sea Cow<\/em> (film), The Hospital Club, London, England.
\n2015 : Exploration of a Failure <\/em>(video), Verbo, Gallery Vermelho, S\u00e3o Paulo, Brazil.
\n2014 : Tales of a Sea Cow<\/em> (film), Gimli Festival, Manitoba, Canada
\n2014 : Tales of a Sea Cow<\/em> (film), Polansky Gallery, Praha, Czech Republic.
\n2013 : Tales of a Sea Cow<\/em> (film), Wild Talk Africa, Durban, South Africa
\n2013 : Tales of a Sea Cow <\/em>(film), LICHTER Filmfest Frankfurt International, Germany.
\n2012\u00a0: Tales of a Sea Cow<\/em>, (film) Shorts and Docs Festival, Reykjavik, Iceland.
\n2010\u00a0: Tales of a Sea Cow<\/em>, (A\/V performance), Festival del Imagen, Manizales, Colombia.
\n2009\u00a0: Tales of a Sea Cow<\/em>, (A\/V performance), Manobra Festival, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
\n2009\u00a0: Tales of a Sea Cow<\/em>, (A\/V performance), Plektrum Festival, Tallinn, Estonia.
\n2008\u00a0: Tales of a Sea Cow<\/em> (Video), Instants Video Festival, Marseille, France.
\n2007 : Eyma <\/em>(Vid\u00e9o), Midi des Jeunes Talents. Festival de Loire, Orl\u00e9ans, France.<\/p>\n

Prizes and residencies<\/strong><\/p>\n

2020-2021\u00a0: Artist residency, Contemporary Art Center Br\u00e9tigny, Br\u00e9tigny-sur-Orge, France.
\n2020-2021\u00a0: Artist residency, Archeology National Museum, Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France.
\n2017 : Artist residency, Flax Foundation, Los Angeles, USA.
\n2017 : Artist residency in Bosque Pehu\u00e9n, Fundaci\u00f3n Mar Adentro, Chile.
\n2016 : Artist Residency, K\u00fcnstlerh\u00e4user Worpswede, Germany. (In exchange with International Center of Art and Landscape at Vassivi\u00e8re Island, France).
\n2016 : Artist residency Te Whare H\u0113ra, Wellington, New Zeland.
\n2015\u00a0: Artist residency FLORA Ars Natura, Bogot\u00e1\/Honda
\n2015 : Artist residency FAAP, S\u00e3o Paulo, Brazil.
\n2015 : Research residency, The International Center of Art and Landscape at Vassivi\u00e8re Island, France.
\n2014\u00a0: Nominated for the COAL Prize, Art et Environment.
\n2013 : Residency in Domaine de Chamarande, Chamarande, France.
\n2013 : Residency in CANTE, San Luis Potosi, Mexico.
\n2012\u00a0: <\/strong>Special Jury Mention Tales of a Sea Cow (documentary<\/em>), Festival Short and Docs, Reykjavik, Iceland.
\n2010\u00a0: SIM Residency, Berlin, Germany.
\n2009 : Les Pixels Transversaux Residency, S\u00e8vres, France.
\n2008-2009\u00a0: E-MobiLart (European Mobile Lab for Interactive Artists). Athens, Rovaniemi, Vienna.
\n2008\u00a0: Pennin Award for Young Artists, Iceland.<\/p>\n

Public Collections<\/strong><\/p>\n

Frac Poitou-Charentes
\nMuseu de Arte Brasileira, S\u00e3o Paulo, Brazil.
\nCity of Gelos, (Pau), France.
\nDepartmental Contemporary Art Collection of Essonne, (FDAC), France.
\nNational Gallery of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland.<\/p>\n

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