James Bantone b. 1992
Exhibitions
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James Bantone
Bodies Bodies
group show curated by Giacomo Pigliapoco and Lucrezia Galeotti
La Rada, Locarno, CH 26 Nov 2022 - 15 Jan 2023BodiesBodies è un discorso aperto e frammentario sulla meta-identità in cui sculture, installazioni, video e performance si combinano per disegnare uno spazio ibrido, tra reale e immaginario, verità e menzogna....Read more -
Shoplifters from Venus
Group show 30 Sep - 19 Nov 2022 Weststrasse 70, Zurich, CHWith works by James Bantone, Judith Bernstein, Ida Ekblad, Sylvie Fleury, Jasmine Gregory, K8 Hardy, David Hominal, Markus Oehlen, Pamela Rosenkranz, Vivian Suter, Keiichi Tanaami, Elisabeth Wild, Urban Zellweger Opening...Read more -
James Bantone
Bourses de la Ville de Genève 2022
Group show
Centre d'Art Contemporain Genève 1 Sep - 2 Oct 2022 -
James Bantone
Kiefer Hablitzel │Göhner Kunstpreis
Swiss Art Awards 2022
Messe Basel Halle 1.1 13 - 19 Jun 2022 -
James Bantone
Espace Arlaud, Les Urbaines, Lausanne, CH 3 - 12 Dec 2021Les UrbainesRead more -
James Bantone
Cuts of Love 25 Nov 2021 - 29 Jan 2022 Weststrasse 75, Zurich, CH -
James Bantone
He Said, They Said
Coalmine, Winterthur 20 Nov 2020 - 27 Mar 2021
Works
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Child's Play 02, 2022
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Child's Play 01, 2022
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Child's Play 03, 2022
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Polite Lies 01, 2022
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Polite Lies 02, 2022
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Polite Lies 03, 2022
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Fool of the Month, 2022
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Fool of the Month, 2022
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Fool of the Month, 2022
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Fool of the Month, 2022
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Fool of the Month, 2022
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Fool of the Month, 2022
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Fool of the Month, 2022
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Fool of the Month, 2022
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Terminal Irony, 2021
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Profeta, 2021
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The Fade, 2021
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Cuts of Love, 2021
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Cuts of Love, 2021
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Cuts of Love, 2021
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Cuts of Love, 2021
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Chronic Oversharer, 2021
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Tongues Untied 01, 2021
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Blue Magic (Anti-Breakage Formula), 2020
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Blue Magic (Anti-Breakage Formula) 3, 2020
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Blue Magic (Anti-Breakage Formula) 04, 2020
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A Demon Hairstyle Guide, 2020
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A Demon Hairstyle Guide 15, 2020
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A Demon Hairstyle Guide 12, 2020
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A Demon Hairstyle Guide 10, 2020
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Demon Tingz: Reloaded 5, 2020
Overview
James Bantone (b. 1992, Geneva) currently lives and works in Zurich. His work constitutes an ongoing exploration of mimesis and mimetic desire (the non-linear processes by which people subconsciously imitate the desires and distastes of others) through uncanny reproductions of the coded subtleties of gesture as they pertain to gender, sexuality, and race.
Bantone—whose experience as a fashion photographer informs his continued experimentations with the aesthetic possibilities of image making—creates installations which toy with the poetics of anonymity, ulterior perspective(s), and subjectivity as a means of questioning contemporary markers of Black, queer identity.
Bantone—whose experience as a fashion photographer informs his continued experimentations with the aesthetic possibilities of image making—creates installations which toy with the poetics of anonymity, ulterior perspective(s), and subjectivity as a means of questioning contemporary markers of Black, queer identity.
Biography
Bantone has exhibited at Cordova, Barcelona, Centre d’Art Contemporain de Geneve, Swiss Institute, New York, Coalmine, Winterthur, Kunsthalle Fribourg and UV Estudios, Buenos Aires.
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