Klaus Fruchtnis | |
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Born | Klaus Fruchtnis Colombia |
Nationality | Colombian and French |
Klaus Fruchtnis is a photographer, digital artist and lecturer. He has a degree in visual arts from Rennes and a master in Arts and Digital Media from the Sorbonne. His research is based on the areas of photography, multimedia, digital drawing and media experimentation and is related to the word "space", and it has been characterized by its itinerary and its way of evolution over the last years. He questions the image, its origin and its incidence in the current art world, through new technologies and different ways of perceiving art, as well as how they influence our daily life. [1] In November 2014, he was named Photography Chair of the Paris College of Art. [2]
His artwork has been internationally exhibited [4] including at Cultural Center Matadero, Huesca; Nuit Blanche 2014, Bogotá ; Fabbrica del Vapore, Milan; [5] Nuit Blanche 2013, Montréal; La Friche Kodak, Sevran; Museo de la Fotografía, Lima; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; La Criée Centre d’Art Contemporain, Rennes; Proekt Fabrika Art Centre, Moscow; ArtBo, Bogotá; Sydney Olympic Park, Sydney; Museo de Arte Moderno, Medellin; AAF Contemporary Art Fair, New York; Toronto International Art Fair, Toronto; Marina Kessler Gallery, Miami; Muestra 2, Mexico.
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Nuit Blanche is an annual all-night or night-time arts festival of a city. A Nuit Blanche typically has museums, private and public art galleries, and other cultural institutions open and free of charge, with the centre of the city itself being turned into a de facto art gallery, providing space for art installations, performances, themed social gatherings, and other activities.
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Danilo Dueñas, has been a professor at the Art Department of the University of The Andes, the School of Fine Arts of the National University of Colombia and at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the Jorge Tadeo Lozano University since 1990. In 1995, he participated in the exhibitions Mesótica and Transatlántica, curated by Carlos Basualdo at the Museum of Contemporary Art and Design in San José de Costa Rica and the Alejandro Otero Museum of Visual Arts in Caracas, respectively. In 1999, he was the recipient of the Johnnie Walker in the Arts Award granted by Paulo Herkenhoff, for his installation "Espacio Preservado II", presented at the Luis Ángel Arango Library. In 2001, two simultaneous retrospective exhibitions of his works were held at the Museum of Modern Art in Bogotá and the Museum of Art of the National University of Colombia. In 2003, another retrospective exhibition was held at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Caracas. In 2006, he was the international guest at the Caracas FIA and in 2008 he presented "Dentro del espacio expositivo" at Periférico Caracas, curated by Jesus Fuenmayor. His works are also represented in the Museum of Fine Arts in Caracas and the Museum of Modern Art in Rio de Janeiro. He is now part of the Artist Pension Trust Mexico. During the year 2011, Danilo Dueñas was a guest of the Artists-in-Berlin Programme of the DAAD.
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