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BIOGRAPHY
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Matthieu Laurette (born 1970 in
Villeneuve Saint Georges, France) is a media and conceptual
contemporary French artist who works in a variety of media, from
TV and video to installation and public interventions. Laurette
uses various strategies to explore the relationships between
conceptual art, Pop art, Institutional Critique, economics and
contemporary society. In 1993, Laurette declared himself an artist
in a French TV gameshow called Tournez manège (The Dating
Game). When the presenter asked him who he was he replied: 'A
multimedia artist'. Laurette had sent out invitations to an
art audience to view the show on TV from their homes. His
best known works are Apparitions (1993-ongoing); Money-back Products
(Produits
remboursés) (1991–2001); Citizenship Project (1996-ongoing);
El Gran Trueque (2000); Déjà vu, The International Look-alike
Conventions (2000-ongoing); I
AM AN ARTIST (1998-ongoing); THINGS: Purchased With Funds Provided By
(2010-ongoing);
DEMANDS & SUPPLIES (2012-ongoing); Tropicalize Me! (2011-ongoing).
"One of the
first “new media” artists to have operated in the 90’s,
Matthieu Laurette has used stereotypes, role models and
processes borrowed from the media and more largely from the
idea of the “Society of the Spectacle,” thoroughly in his
work. His practice directly questions the relationship
between art and life, from his first works in which he
appeared on popular television programs to later more
complex apparatuses about value and economic circulation,
and now to his current work, which is centered on the
artistic persona itself, registering actions via
certificates, photographs, and social media. Having used
dematerialization as his main strategy for over 20 years,
Laurette can be seen as a visionary precursor of current
artistic strategies affirming the virtual and the network as
effective, IRL artistic material." "Accumulator
or otaku of Contemporary art, Matthieu
Laurette is a demanding artist in the sense that he manages
to integrate into his work all the elements or data that
participate in the preparation, production, presentation,
distribution, mediation, promotion and reception of his
work." "What
particularly attracts me to your work, Matthieu, is that you
take the viewer out of the art-world context –
serendipitously, intelligently – before throwing them right
back into it again because, let’s be honest, who the hell
would care otherwise. But you are clearly working in the
real world with real values with things that are part of
everybody’s daily life." "Matthieu
Laurette is "using society as a catalog of forms...he plays
with economic forms as if they were the lines and colors of
a painting." “ Laurette
imagined a system to eat without spending money, thanks to
sales promotions on the first purchase refunded. It's of
interest to me. Thus the route inside the (Venice Biennal)
Corderia ends with the work of artists working around food
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DEMANDS & SUPPLIES, conceived as an ongoing
retrospective and a full financial disclosure of
all costs and expenses incurred in the past nine
years of Matthieu Laurette's practice as an
artist, DEMANDS &
SUPPLIES (2012—ongoing) picks up the story
left off at the artist's eponymous exhibition in
2012 at Gaudel de Stampa in Paris and subsequently
at Silicon Malley in Lausanne in 2020/2021.
In
contrast to Chris Burden, who made public his
profit and loss (Full Financial Disclosure, 1977)
as decorative "collages" of canceled checks, bank
statements, tax forms which he called "drawings,"
Matthieu Laurette is proposing since 2012, through
a commercial arrangement, simple two-line
contracts that allow his expenses to be acquired.
Rather than producing or exhibiting a single
material object, Matthieu Laurette generates
financial "exhaust" - his bills and debts — to be
paid for by collectors. DEMANDS
& SUPPLIES
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