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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." "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
stores. WIKIPEDIA CURRENT
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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 10 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, and 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.
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