André Fortino

Biography

French artist, André Fortino, lives and works in Marseille. He is a performance artist, who also explores video and installation. Fortino obtained a Diplôme National Supérieur of fine arts from the Annecy School of Art (ESAAA).
 
Since 2007, he has participated in numerous group exhibitions, namely presented by Le Musée d’Art Contemporain de Marseille (2014), the Mamco, musée d’art moderne et contemporain (Geneva, 2014), La maison rouge in Paris (2014), and the Centre Pompidou in Paris, as part of the Rencontres internationales Paris / Berlin / Madrid (2010).
 
Fortino has had solo exhibitions at Galerie Territoires Partagés (Marseille, 2014), La compagnie, lieu de création (Marseille, 2013), and at Fog Galerie (Paris, 2012). He has participated in many residencies, including at the Mamco in Geneva (2014) and ESAAA in Annecy (2013), and in Algiers (2010), organized in collaboration with Rivages cultural association. In 2015, the first monograph about his work was published by the ESAAA, and will be distributed by Presses du Réel.

 

 

Recent exhibitions

2014	«Le Vestibule», La maison rouge, Paris
2013	«Lâcher de Fauves», La Compagnie, Marseille
2012	«Hypnotisé par les lueurs fascinantes des phares», Fog Galerie, Paris
2011	«Térébenthisme», Galerie Territoires Partagés, Marseille