isabelle fordin Born 06/12/1969 Toulouse, France French nationality

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Born 06/12/1969 Toulouse, France
French nationality
Lives and works in Rome, Italy
Independent visual artist, graduated in Geography and National Superior Diploma of
Visual Arts in France. With a grant from the Ministry of External Affairs (France/Italy)
developed her work in Italy.
Her work reflects various ways of inhabiting space, incarnation and visual material
both tactile and audible. The artistic work can include installation, photography, video
and sound that from 1993 has been exposed in galleries and museums in various
cities in Europe and in Thailand.
Principal personal exhibitions
1996
Cupole Palais des Arts, Toulouse, France
1998
Respiro, Internazional Festival di Buto dance, music and contempory
art, Teatro Vascello, Roma
1999
Metronomo sincronico Biennal of young artists from Europe and the
mediterranean, La Palma, Roma
2002
Rialto specifico, Rialto Santambrogio, Rome
2007
Exhibition at the French Institute of Florence
Coproduced by the Florence Arts Acadamy within the project White
Architecture no.1 sponsored by the bank Ente Cassa di Risparmio di
Firenze and AAIFF.
Installazione, Notte Bianca A San Lorenzo in Piazza, sponsored by the
3rd Municipality of Rome
2008
Artist- in- Residence with the French Institute of Florence created
the exhibition Passage - Suspension sponsored by the bank Ente
Cassa di Risparmio di Firenze.
2009
Galleria Ugo Ferranti, Rome
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Principal collective exhibitions
1995
Massenzio Arte, Fori Imperiali, Rome
1999
Metronomo sincronico Biennal of young artists from Europe and the
mediterranean, La Palma, Rome
2000
Pino a ombrello, Opera Paese, Rome
Arte e Materia, Isola Tiberina, Rome
2001
Ventaglio, Variation 1, Accordi di luce: Oriente d’Occidente, Museo
Nazionale d’Arte Orientale, Rome
With the patronage of the subcommission of the department of culture and
sport, municipality of Rome, the French Embassy in Rome and the
'Immaginarel'Europa' Network. The exhibition was sponsored by Ministry of
Cultural Activities, the National Oriental Art Museum, Silpakor University
Bangkok, Royal Thai Embassy, Rome, Italian Institute for Africa and the
Orient
Momenti Salla Umberto, Rome
Le Blanc, le Masque et l’Aube: Accords de Lumière. National Gallery
Bangkok,
III° edition of the project Thai-Italian Space 2002. Curated by Vittoria Biasi
Patronage:Italian Embassy of Bangkok, Bangkok Royal Thai
Embassy, with the support of the Alliance Française of Bangkok
2003
Upperground, Vienna and the architectural faculty ex-Mattatoio, Rome
Eclipse, Arte nella communità, Artandgallery, Milano
Arte publica in Italia: Art Show and Production, Fondazione Pistoletto,
Biella Ellipse, aerodynamic installation, for the square Largo Monteoliveto,
V edition of the Napoli Street Festival, Produced by Global Visions e
sponsored by the Port of Naples
2004
A tavola con l’Arte, 3rd edition of the project of table decoration promoted
by the Chamber of Commerce, Rome. Casaidea 30° Living Exhibition,
Rome
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Nib+Icar 2004 - 05 Travelling exhibition of architecture (under 36)
with the project Eclipse
2006
Archittetture del bianco,
Laboratory Museum of Contempory Art of Sapienza University,Rome,
MLAC with the support of French Embassy in Italy, Cultural Service
BCLA.
In the obscurity interrupted by flashes and passages of light, the french
artists Robert Cahen, Isabelle Fordin and Philippe Laleu propose immaterial
architecture, sound geometry, and ritual scriptures where the white and the
body dance together immanently.
The moulded expressions of the bodies, the clouds and the subtle dynamics
of sound, create the circulation of different realities. The exhibition is
structured between video, photography and music proposing an oriental
experience with western thought.
Abstracta 2006
Selected for the International Exhibition of AbstractCinema, Rome
2007
Festival della creatività Firenze Fortezza dal Basso
Festival of Creativity, Florence Fortezza dal Basso 5th edition of Artist's Book
Biennial in the city of Cassino
2008
Alterità , A book by the artist, historical, new languages and anonimal
material. Open Space, Contempory Art Centre, Catanzaro.
In – Visibile Spaces, Galleria Ugo Ferranti, Roma. Group show: Daniel
Buren, Isabelle Fordin, Alberto Garutti, Michael Huey, Owen Morrel Robert
Morris, Marina Paris.
2009
Project Otto for the garden Welcome! FUTURE GARDENS Festival 2009,
Butterfly World Project, England.
Her work is exhibited in various private collections and publicly at the French
Institute of Florence and the Ugo Ferranti Gallery in Rome.
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Publications
Her work is presented in Massenzio for Art 1995 (catalogue), Biennal of Young
European Artists and Mediterranean of Giorgio Pacifici 1988, Ortona Exhibition of
Isabelle Fordin 1999.
Accordi di Luce: Oriente d’Occidente Vittoria Biasi (catalogue 2001)
Maurizio Marrone Opera paese 2001.
Isabelle Fordin tra Oriente e Occidente Giuliana Polenta 2002 (rivista l’Albatros)
BravaCasa, Numero marzo 2004 e (catalogo Casaidea 2004)
Viaggiatori sulla Flaminia, 2005. Upperground catalogue, ed.manifestolibri, 2005
IV edizione Premio Celeste, (Catalogo 2007)
V Biennale Libro d’Artista, (Catalogo 2007), Città di Casino
Architetture del bianco. Viaggio teorico-creativo attorno alle lingue del bianco. Vittoria
Biasi. (Gangemi Edittore, 2009)
Her work has appeared in various magazines and art reviews in Italy, Thailand, and in
England.
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Scenic Space
Throughout her career she has intimately intergrated multidisiplined activities,
centered on scenic space in particular. From 1990 to 1993 she was lighting assistant
for the performance of Les danseuses d'Izu by the company Flagrant Dèsirs, in France
and created short films for the association Les films du Zèbra and assisted with
scenary in the Carcassonne Theatre. In 1993 was head decorator in the production
l'Ecrin for the Conservatory of Music of Toulouse, France.
In 1999 she designed the costumes for the performance of Banquet for the Ford
Entertainment Company at the Villa Aldobrandini of Frascati.
In 2001 was the scenographer for the company Donati-Olesen in Saltimortale at the
Juvarra Theatre in Turin and the Flaiano, Rome 2002.
Collaborated with Nuovo Circo Immaginario for the performance of Flight of the
Butterfly, Between Sky and Earth Festival, Piazza del Popolo, Rome 2002 and for the
1st Festival of Street Artists, Viterbo 2003 and in Naples for the Notte Bianca, 2005.
Artistic director for a theatre workshop to develop a performance of Icaro as a
community theatre production in the streets of Monticastelli Pisano 2004.
And in 2005 again in Monticastelli Pisano created Telling the story of my homeland,
based on collected stories of the inhabitants from the 1920's to the 1950's in
collaboration with the faculty of social science, University of Sapienza, Rome.
Also collaborated with Rita Caccamo, professor of social science at the Sapienza
University of Rome in a debate on a film by Agnes Varda called Without Roof or Rules.
Assisted in the presentation of a book, Reading the changes. Through sociology and
the working paper of a sociological study of street artists.
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Concourses
2002
For Antiche Strade, XIII Buskers & Performers Festival Carpineto Romano
2002.Sabine Anne Deshais and Isabelle Fordin (France). “A tout Prix” – visual art
installation.
First prize section ‘Free’ proposed visual art:
Architectural .Sights and points of view and in particular with respect to the Carpineto
landscape. Rediscovered by the framing of the sight to give value to the chosen image
http://www.argillateatri.org/antichestrade2002.htm
2003
Il Sole 24 Ore, Concorso Nuovi Segni 2002/2003: Art in the community
Selected project for Eclipse , an air-filled structure to create a silence and rest in
the middle of metropolitan traffic, with 'Self' an architectural firm.
2005
Presentation of a project Labyrinth, synchronized metronome for the Westonbirt
Festival of the Garden 2005, England and for the 2005 edition of the
International Garden Festival Les Jardins de Metis, Canada. As well as for
Parchi dell’Arte, Italy.
2006
Abstracta 2006 Selected for an International Festival of Abstract Film in Rome
Empty Bottles, Video
Aided by a cinemagraphic camera Isabelle Fordin discloses a small detail in the Tibur
River level with Tibur Island in the center of Rome, and fixes the image of a noticably
suggestive performance in an informative sense. At this point in a small basin of
water formed by cross currents at the base of a fall, agitates a polychrome world
made up of mostly plastic bottles of different colours and sizes.
2007
PREMIO CELESTE 2007 selected/ photography catalogue section
www.premioceleste.it/artista/idu:91/
MUNI-X-WEBART 2007 – concourse winner NAMIR for the sculpture-architecture
section, Patronage X Municipality of Rome.
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2008
INTERIOR SPACES AND NATURAL/FESTARTE FESTIVAL Rome
Selected for the International concourse of Video Art with her video Empty Bottles,
Video IN CONCORSO – Con il contributo del Ministero dell’Ambiente e della tutela del
Territorio e del mare e del IMAIE
www.festarte.it/pages/vincitori+II+concorso+videoart.html
Festarte § vincitori II concorso videoart
2009
Awarded best film at the Rome ZTL Film Fest.'09 exhibition of cinema and video
art with a metropolitan theme, Cineclub Detour with the support of Rome Municipality
1 Centre
Selected for the project Welcome! for the FUTURE GARDENS FESTIVAL 2009,
Butterfly World Project, England
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