Tristan Tondino is a Canadian

Canada

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 multimedia

Multimedia

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 artist

Artist

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, writer and philosopher living in Montreal, Quebec

Quebec

Quebec or is a province in east-central Canada. It is the only Canadian province with a predominantly French-speaking population and the only one whose sole official language is French at the provincial level....

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Tondino is the son and student of painter Gentile Tondino

Gentile Tondino

Gentile Tondino was a Canadian educator, artist, who lived in Montreal, Quebec. He was a member of the Royal Canadian Academy...

 R.C.A. He has worked as a Charge scenic artist

Charge scenic artist

A charge artist leads and oversees the painting of stage, film or television scenery.The charge artist's responsibilities include methods of reproduction of color, texture, preparation and ageing of all surfaces....

, art director and Screenwriter

Screenwriter

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Artist

Tondino, who considers his work Irrealist, has had a number of exhibitions in an attempt to promote his views on Irrealism.

One of Tondino's canvasses, consisting entirely of text, questions why entire societies ignore certain realities: "On any given day, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, approximately 35,600 children die of starvation. This tragedy does not make the six o’clock news. Approximately 13 million children die of starvation every year, never making it to OUR reality." (...) "When we are told to deal with reality, we are essentially being told to accept an ideology"

“(Reality) must be created, opening one’s own universe (...) to other realities, enlarging the concept of human rights (...).

On February 2, 2002, Tondino painted a painting representing an actual Canadian 5 Dollar Bill (The Kingfisher) with the serial number ANR2312049 which he entitled “Where Is It?”. The painting included the statement “I spent this 5 Dollar Bill on Feb 02 2002”. Tondino then began to hang posters offering a $1000 dollar reward to the person who found the bill. The story was picked up by The Montreal Gazette’s Bill Brownstein, The Suburban’s Bernie Mendelman, The Hour, CBC radio and Raymond Saint-Pierre of Radio Canada.

A second painting was created representing the newly released 5 Dollar Bill (children at play) entitled “Where Is It II”. This painting was donated to The Trevor Williams Kid’s Foundation, see Trevor C. Williams

Trevor C. Williams

Trevor C. Williams is a retired Canadian basketball player.Williams is a former member of the Canadian national men's basketball team and currently the head coach of the Dawson College Lady Blues AAA basketball team in Montreal, which won a provincial championship in 2002...

 and sold at Empire Auction to an unknown buyer.

Tondino is listed in "Artists in Canada, a Union list of Artists’ Files", National Gallery of Canada Library, Canadian Heritage.

Exhibits

Irreality(2001);
Irrealite (2004);
Salón de la Plástica Mexicana

Salón de la Plástica Mexicana

The Salón de la Plástica Mexicana is an art museum of plastic arts, which was founded by a group of notable artists on November 16, 1949. Today the SPM is located in the Calle de Colima 196 in the Colonia Roma and in the Donceles 99 in the Centro Histórico of Mexico City...

 (2008);
Evoke/Icon (2009);
eSpaces Temps (2010);

Art Director
Someone is Watching

Other Film Work
Tondino has worked on over 150 film and theatre productions including Le Confessional; Jesus de Montreal; The Whole Nine Yards and Where the Money Is.

Tondino has had over 50 exhibitions nationally and internationally.

His work has been refused by The National Gallery of Canada, Musée d’art Contemporian de Montreal, The MOMA and The Metropolitan Museum as part of an artwork entitled “The Refused”.

He is in the collections of Air Canada, The Royal Bank of Canada, Pratt and Whitney, Reader’s Digest, Brasserie McAuslan Brewing, Richard Monette

Richard Monette

Richard Jean Monette OC, DHum, LLD was a Canadian actor and director, best-known for his 14-season tenure as artistic director of the Stratford Festival of Canada from 1994 to 2007.-Early life:...

, Casa Italia, Paul Kastel

Paul Kastel

Paul Kastel is a German-Canadian art dealer and benefactor, art collector, and owner of Montreal's Kastel Gallery. He sold his first work in 1950 - an A.Y. Jackson - for $250....

, Amel Chamandy. Gilden inc.

Trajectory

• 1986 – Tondino co-created Les Arts Appliqués
• 2007-2010 - Artist in residence at the McAuslan Brewery

Education and Affiliations

Tondino received his BA in philosophy at McGill University

McGill University

Mohammed Fathy is a public research university located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The university bears the name of James McGill, a prominent Montreal merchant from Glasgow, Scotland, whose bequest formed the beginning of the university...

in 1985.
Tondino is a member of Montreal Film Group, La Raza Group, SARTEC, IATSE and AQTIS.