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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).
Laurette's work has been shown in venues such
as Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Soho, New York (1998); the
ICA-Institute of Contemporary Arts, London (1999 & 2003);
de Appel, Amsterdam (2000 & 2013); 49th Venice Biennale
(2001); Castello di Rivoli, Turin (2001); Deichtorhallen,
Hamburg (2002); Artsonje Center, Seoul (2002); Palais de
Tokyo, Paris (2003 & 2006); Biennal de Pontevedra (2004);
P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center/MoMA, N.Y (2005); Stedelijk
Museum, Amsterdam (2005); Yvon Lambert Gallery, Paris (2005);
Kunsthalle & Kunstforum, Vienna (2005); the Museum of
Contemporary Art, Sydney (2006); MoMA-Museum of Modern Art,
New York (2007); MNAM-Centre Pompidou, Paris (1997, 2000,
2004, 2007 & 2009); Z33, Hasselt (2012); Mac/Val -
Musée d'art contemporain du Val de Marne, Vitry-sur Seine
(2012, 2015, 2016, 2023); Museo La Tertulia, Cali (2013);
Parallel, Oaxaca (2014); Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven (2015);
FRAC Haute-Normandie, Rouen (2016); Museo Experimental El Eco,
Mexico D.F (2016), IVAM, Valencia (2017); MRAC Occitanie,
Sérignan (2018); Solar dos Abacaxis, Rio de Janeiro (2018); CN
D Centre National de la Danse, Pantin (2019); Casa Sarayu,
Pueblo Nuevo/Mindo, Ecuador (2020), Silicon Malley, Prilly (2020)
CNEAI, Paris (2021); Cloud Seven, Brussels (2021); LE SILO:
Collection Jean-Philippe & Françoise Billarant, Marines
(2022-2024); The Island Club, Limassol (2022); MUCEM - Musée des civilisations de l'Europe et
de la Méditerranée, Marseille (2022); BPS22 - Musée
d'art de la Province de Hainaut, Charleroi, Belgium (2023); Fondazione
Antonio Ratti, Como, Italy (2023);
La Galerie Imaginaire, Online; Off Paradise,
New York, USA (2024).
A
large-scale mid-career retrospective,
titled "MATTHIEU
LAURETTE: UNE RÉTROSPECTIVE DÉRIVÉE
(1993-2023)",
was held atMAC VAL
- Musée d'Art
Contemporain du Val-de-Marne,
Vitry-sur-Seine in 2023/2024 from October 20th, 2023 until
March 3rd, 2024, curated by guest curator Cédric
Fauq covering about thirty years of work
accompanied by "Matthieu
Laurette: Une monographie dérivée
(1993-2023)"
a comprehensive monograph designed by Syndicat
with essays by Cédric Fauq, Inès Champey, Dorothée
Dupuis, Alex Farquharson and numerous guests.
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In 2003 he was awarded the Fondation
Ricard Prize.
His works are in several
public, corporate and private collections including Musée
National d’Art Moderne, Centre
Pompidou, Paris; CNAP/FNAC, National Fund for
Contemporary Art, Paris; MAC VAL - Musée d'art
contemporain du Val de Marne, Vitry-sur Seine; CNEAI
= Centre National Edition Art Image, Paris; FRAC-Collection Aquitaine,
Bordeaux; Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain Poitou- Charentes,
Angoulême; FRAC Lorraine, Metz; Collection Gregory
Papadimitriou, Athens; William Grant and Sons Ltd, Dufftown; La Coleccíon Berezdivin, San Juan,
Puerto Rico; Le Silo - Collection Jean-Philippe &
Françoise Billarant, Paris/Marines;
Frédéric de Goldschmidt, Brussels; Iwan & Manuela Wirth,
Zürich/London...
"One of the first
“new media” artists to have operated in the '90s, 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 the 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."
—— Dorothée Dupuis in Terremoto.mx, 2014.
"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."
—— Arthur Fouray in Actes du Colloque
Vues & Données, 2020, ENSP, France.
"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."
—— Seth Siegelaub in Frieze, No.154, Apr. 2013.
"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."
—— Nicolas Bourriaud in 'Post
Production', 2002, ed. Sternberg Press.
“ 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
stores.
—— Harald
Szeemann, "The idea of Total Art Turned out to Be a Utopia"
in Le Monde, 2001.
- "Like a Nightingale With a Toothache",Off
Paradise, New York (June 17 – August 17,
2024).
- "MATTHIEU LAURETTE: UNE RÉTROSPECTIVE
DÉRIVÉE (1993-2023)",MAC VAL - Musée
d'Art Contemporain du Val-de-Marne,
Vitry-sur-Seine, France, curated
by guest curator Cédric Fauq (20 October 2023 -
3 March 2024) The
retrospective is accompanied by a comprehensive
monograph designed by the graphic designer duo
SYNDICAT published by MAC VAL.
(Site
internet de l'exposition FR et Communiqué
de presse FR ) (English
website and Press
Release)
- 'Attitudes Bootlegged (shh...)',
La
Galerie Imaginaire, online (01 January 2024
- 31 January 2024)
- 'Seth Siegelaub: Textile Art Theory',
Fondazione Antonio Ratti, Como, Italy (06 October 2023 - 07
January 2024)
- 'Merci Facteur ! Mail Art #6. Janelas', BPS22 -
Musée d'art de la Province de Hainaut, Charleroi, Belgium
(23 September 2023 - 07 January 2024)
- 'Le Silo 6 : Oeuvres de la collection Jean-Philippe
& Françoise Billarant', Le Silo, Marines,
France (5 June 2022 - 2024)
- 'Matthieu Laurette, DEMANDS & SUPPLIES «A
holiday for the artist was purchased by
____________________________.»' DDD KUNST HOUSE,
Yerevan, Armenia, (23 December 2022 – 07 January 2023)
- 'THINGS: Purchased With Funds Provided By
___________', Global Demix Studio, Paris, France
(Ongoing)
- 'DEMANDS
& SUPPLIES' Online Viewing Room (24
August 2020- 31 July 2024)
DEMANDS
& SUPPLIES, www.demandsandsupplies.art
is an online sales website powered by Shopify™ available
and shipping worldwide unique art works since 2020.
FYI: After 4 years, DEMANDS & SUPPLIES Shopify
online shop www.demandsandsupplies.art
will close on the 31st of July, 2024. The project, initiated in
2012, remains ongoing and will continue offline and through
exhibitions and galleries.
Last chance to order online!
Press Release / About: DEMANDS & SUPPLIES, conceived as an ongoing
retrospective and a full financial disclosure of all costs and
expenses incurred over the past 12 years of Matthieu
Laurette's practice as an artist, DEMANDS &
SUPPLIES (2012—ongoing) picks up the story from the
artist's eponymous exhibition in 2012 at Gaudel de Stampa in
Paris, subsequently at Silicon Malley in Lausanne in 2020/2021,
and more recently as part of his retrospective at MAC VAL in
Vitry-sur-Seine in 2023/2024.
In contrast to Chris Burden, who made public his profit and loss
(Full Financial Disclosure, 1977) as decorative "collages" of
canceled checks, bank statements, and tax forms, which he called
"drawings," Matthieu Laurette has been 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. Today anyone can become a
collector on www.demandsandsupplies.art
an online sales website powered by Shopify™ available and
shipping worldwide. As the artist explained in a discussion
with Seth Siegelaub in Frieze (2013): "DEMANDS & SUPPLIES,
consists entirely of contracts—say, a contract that a collector
could purchase the cost of my phone deals, the rent of my studio
or have a dinner with me and stuff like that."
Matthieu Laurette considers his basic artist expenses as
production costs that are then doubled when purchased through
the website or directly from the artist, or tripled when
purchased through a gallery. This defines the selling
price of the work, currently ranging online from €223.68 for "Matthieu
Laurette’s 2015 repairs and maintenance bills were purchased
by _____________." to €31,909.14 for the entirety of his
2019 expenses. These works, available for online order are
unique printed contracts in A4 or US letter format (dimensions
variable according to collector's location), which must be
signed by both parties—the collector and the artist—to be then
framed in an artist's frame (size: 37.5 x 29 x 3.5 cm). For
more details, please contact us by email or visit the website www.demandsandsupplies.art. In
1993, when asked on a French TV game show called "Tournez
Manège" (The Dating Game) to describe himself, Matthieu
Laurette replied, "A multimedia artist." He has since been
exploring the relationship between art and society with an œuvre
that he characterizes as "IRL Institutional Critique." His body
of work seeks to show inconsistencies or flaws in the systems
imposed by late capitalism and Spectacle. This project reduces
an artistic work to the exhaustive list of expenses necessary
for its own conception. Furthermore, it questions the value that
any person, including the artist himself, can place on a work,
including all that it can be brought to encompass, conceal, or
even disguise. Reduced to increasingly essential data for many
artists — financial data — DEMANDS & SUPPLIES displays a raw
look at what is the lived reality of an artist today.
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📖 « Matthieu
Laurette: Une monographie dérivée (1993-2023) »
✔️ 336 pages /
Bilingue français-anglais Bilingual French / English /
800 photos & reproductions / Format: 31 x 21,5 cm /
Design: Syndicat /
Textes/Texts: Cédric Fauq, Inès Champey, Dorothée Dupuis, Alex
Farquharson et beaucoup d’autres/ and many more… /
Éditions / Publisher : MAC VAL / ISBN: 978-2-900450-16-1 💶
Price: 35 Euros (in France, price may vary abroad)
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also available on Amazon, Fnac, etc.)
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Distribution France :
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Download
here: Matthieu
Laurette, COMMODITIES featuring Jeff Koons, Robert Ryman and
Andy Warhol.
Exh. cat. 24 pages, color
2004, ed. Deweer Art Gallery (Otegem). PDF File size: 9,2 mo (High resolution)
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here: Matthieu
Laurette presents Free Sample Demix. Essay by Alexis Vaillant; documentation of works 1993-1998;
biography; exhibition chronology; bibliography. ed. 1000, not
numbered.
Artist publication / Exh. cat. 96 pages, color / Black &
White
1998, ed. Galerie Jousse Seguin (Paris). PDF File size: 45,9 mo (High resolution)
For press, interviews, and image requests please write to this address with your name,
address, publication, request, and comments.
Matthieu Laurette's images are protected by the Authors' Rights
(Intellectual Property Law). Any publication, reproduction,
exhibition or type and context of use should be declared at ADAGP (French collective
administration organization for the rights of authors in the
visual arts) www.adagp.fr or to its sister societies which
oversee Matthieu Laurette's rights on their territories: i.e.
Canada (SODRAC), Belgium (SABAM), Germany (BILD KUNST), Italy
(SIAE), Japan (JVACS), Korea (SACK), Netherlands (BEELDRECHT),
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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 '90s, 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 the 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."
Communiqué
de presse FR ) (English
website and 
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PUBLICATION / NOUVELLE PUBLICATION ***
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