Silvie Defraoui
Silvie Defraoui (* 7. December 1935 as Silvia Rehsteiner in St. Gallen ) is a Swiss artist .
Live and act
Silvie Defraoui, née Rehsteiner, set out for Algiers in the 1950s to study painting at the art college. Before the outbreak of the Algerian War in 1954, she returned to Switzerland, attended the Ecole des arts décoratifs in Geneva, where she trained in ceramics . Between 1975 and 1994 she worked with Chérif Defraoui (1932–1994). From 1974 to 1999, Silvie Defraoui taught at the l'École supérieure d'art visuel de Genève , where she and her partner founded a mixed media studio, the Atelier Média Mixtes , which produced two generations of video artists (including Eric Lanz , Marie José Burki , Simon Lamunière , but also Emmanuelle Antille , Fernandez, Frédéric Moser and Philippe Schwinger .). Silvie Defraoui is a member of the "Ostschweizer Kunstschaffen Foundation", the Federal Art Commission and various other juries.
Silvie Defraoui uses various artistic means of expression: installation , photography , painting , screen printing and video . Thematically, she deals with dualities : man-woman, man-animal, east-west, memory-present, art-commodity, tradition-invention.
Archives du futur / Archives of the Future is an overarching project to which the artist added works even after the death of her husband.
Silvie Defraoui's works are exhibited internationally, including numerous others at MoMA PS1 in New York. In 1992 she took part in Documenta IX in Kassel.
Awards
- 2006: Culture Prize of the City of St. Gallen
- 2007: Prix de la Ville de Genève
- 2008: Grand Prix de la Fondation Vaudoise pour la Culture
- 2008: Culture Prize of the Canton of Vaud
- 2014: Prix d'art de la fondation BEWE
literature
- Silvie Defraoui: And also projections (Archives du futur), Christophe Kihm, Christoph Vögele, Solothurn Art Museum . Edition Fink, Zurich 2014, ISBN 978-3-03746-181-5 .
Web links
- Françoise Ninghetto : Defraoui, Silvie. In: Sikart (status: 2004), accessed on December 31, 2016.
- Silvie Defraoui at artfacts.net
- Silvie Defraoui on kunstaspekte.de
- Silvie Defraoui at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Documenta IX: Kassel, June 13–20. September 1992 - Catalog in three volumes, Volume 1, Stuttgart 1992, ISBN 3-89322-380-0 , p. 133.
- ^ Collection online at Kunstmuseum Luzern Silvie Defraoui , accessed on December 31, 2016.
- ↑ Silvie Defraoui's video art sounds, moves and terrifies. SRF, May 26, 2014, accessed on December 31, 2016.
- ^ New Media , Silvie Defraoui , accessed December 31, 2016.
- ^ And also projections by Silvie Defraoui , accessed on December 31, 2016.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Defraoui, Silvie |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Rehsteiner, Silvia (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 7, 1935 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | St. Gallen |