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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); 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) and Silicon Malley, Prilly
(2020).
In 2003 he was awarded the
Fondation d'Entreprise 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, Chatou; FRAC-Collection Aquitaine,
Bordeaux; Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain Poitou- Charentes,
Angoulême; FRAC Lorraine, Metz; Fondation d'entreprise Ricard,
Marseille/Paris; Collection Gregory Papadimitriou, Athens;
William Grant and Sons Ltd, Dufftown; La Coleccíon Berezdivin, San Juan, Puerto
Rico; Iwan & Manuella Wirth, Zürich; The Speyer Family
Collection , New York...
"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."
—— 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,
to be published in September 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.
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Online Viewing Room 24.08.2020-24.08.2021 Silicon Malley Artist–run
Space
Ave. du Chablais 18
1008 Prilly / Lausanne
Switzerland DEMANDS & SUPPLIES, Matthieu
Laurette’s first solo exhibition in Switzerland since 1999 at
MAMCO in Geneva, will fill the space from floor to ceiling at
Silicon Malley (2.5 x 4 meters [98 x 157.5 in]), an artist-run
space hosting one visitor at a time due to the COVID-19
situation, and spread to an online sales website
(www.demandandsupplies.art), powered by Shopify™ that will be
available worldwide.
www.siliconmalley.ch/Matthieu-laurette
Download here: Matthieu Laurette, COMMODITIES featuring Jeff Koons, Robert
Ryman and Andy Warhol.
Exh. cat. 24 pages, colour
2004, ed. Deweer Art Gallery (Otegem). PDF File size : 9,2 mo (High resolution)
Download 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, colour / Black &
White
1998, ed. Galerie Jousse Seguin (Paris). PDF File size : 45,9 mo (High resolution)