Vincent Fournier | |
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Born | 1970 Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso |
Nationality | French |
Education | Ecole Nationale de la Photographie d’Arles |
Known for | Photography |
Website | Official website |
Vincent Fournier (born 1970 in Ouagadougou) is a French artist and photographer. [1] [2] [3] His works explore questions of science fiction, utopian stories ,and different mythologies of the future such as the space adventure, humanoid robots, utopian architectures, and the technological transformation of the living. His vision is nourished by childhood memories, including visits to the Palais de la Découverte, which evoke the "scientific wonder". [4] While photography remains his preferred medium, 3D printing, video and installations sometimes accompany certain projects. [5] [6] Vincent Fournier's images are put in tension by oppositions that disturb our gaze: reality/fiction, logic/absurdity, past/future, magic/science, natural/artificial. He explores futuristic fiction and discovers in our present, or in the past, "glimpse of the future". [7] After graduating in sociology and visual arts, he studied at the École nationale supérieure de la photographie in Arles and obtained his diploma in 1997. [8]
In 2022 he was awarded "Prix Swiss Life à 4 mains". [9] [10]
His works are part of the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (MET) [11] [12] [13] in New York, the Centre Pompidou in Paris, [14] the Mast Foundation in Bologna, the Dragonfly Collection of the Domaine des Etangs in Massignac, [15] [16] the LVMH collection in Paris with the Bon Marché, [17] the Baccarat collection in New York, [18] Science Gallery Dublin, [19] Musée des Ursulines de Mâcon, [20] Fondation Bullukian in Lyon [21] and others.
He has participated in several major group exhibitions such as "The Universe and Art" at the Mori Art Tokyo [22] and Art Science Singapore museums, [23] "Unknown Unknowns An Introduction to Mysteries" at the Milan Triennial, [24] "Art and Science Fiction, the Gates of Possibility" at the Centre Pompidou Metz, [25] as well as solo exhibitions at the Museo d'Arte Moderna di Bologna (MAMbo) [26] during Foto Industria 2018 and at the Rencontres d'Arles in 2014. [27] He has collaborated with Louis Vuitton for french fashion designer Nicolas Ghesquière, [28] Le Bon Marché (Paris), [17] Hôtel Baccarat New York (Gilles&Boissier), [29] Isetan Tokyo (Diesel) [30] and for the film The Amazing Spider-man 2 with Columbia Pictures. [31]
Vincent Fournier was the guest of the MET for a public presentation of his work on the occasion of the conference "In Our Time - A Year of Architecture in a Day in 2019". [32] He lives and works in Paris.
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AD, [44] Art Press2, Connaissance des Arts, [45] Dazed&Confuzed, Esquire Japan, European Photography, [46] GQ Japan, HotShoe, Icon, Internazionale, [47] Marie Claire Italy, [48] MIR Russia, Mixte, [49] Nowness, Officiel Art, Outlook China, Le Point, The Sartorialist, The Times, The Daily Telegraph, [50] The Sunday Times, Wallpaper, [51] Wired (Germany, Italy, UK, USA). [52]
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