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show / project
COMMODITIES
feat. Jeff Koons, Robert Ryman and Andy Warhol.
April 17 - June 6, 2004 (on apointment until 2 July 2004)
solo show
Opening reception : Saturday 17 April 2004, 3:30 pm to 6:30pm
>DEWEER ART GALLERY
Tiegemstraat 6, B - 8553 Otegem, Belgium.
Ph +32 56.644893 / E-mail : deweer@artsite.be
www.artsite.be/deweer
exhibited work
wax sculpture, shopping cart filled with moneyback products, 9 television sets, variable dimensions., unique piece.
Worldmap with red map pins placed in the cities where the artist already exhibited, 264 x 396 cm., unique piece.
Cover and Yellow Book page framed mentioning the artist’s contact details in the “artistes du spectacle” section, unique piece.
Lambdaprint on Dibond, 160 x 120 cm., ed. 3 / I A.P.
from the Series Ideological Shopping
34 x 34 x 4 cm.(closed), unique piece.
from the Series Ideological Shopping.
Book, T-shirt and magazine, unique piece.
from the Series Ideological Shopping
Gold necklace & pendants, price tags, display and box, unique piece.
from the Series Ideological Shopping
Brochure, postcard, envellope; unique piece.
from the Series Ideological Shopping
3 framed Warhol reproductions in original Tate Modern bags, unique piece.
Vacuum cleaners, TL-lights and plexiglass box private, private collection.
framed covers and pages, unique piece.
framed cover and page ed. 7 / II A.P.
framed front page ed. 20 / V A.P.
framed cover and page ed. 7 / II A.P.
framed covers and pages, 11 parts, unique piece.
bronze medal, display and box, unique piece.
Photographs on aluminium, 9 parts, 9 x 40 x 60 cm., ed. 3 / I A.P.
incorporated double-face woven rug in pure New-Zealand wool, 160 x 235 cm., ed. 30 / IV A.P.
press release
MATTHIEU LAURETTE
COMMODITIES
17 April - 6 June 2004
Opening reception : Saturday 17 April 2004, 3:30 pm to 6:30pm
>DEWEER ART GALLERY
Tiegemstraat 6,
B - 8553 Otegem, Belgium.
Ph +32 (0)56.644893
Fax +32.(0)56.647685
E-mail : deweer@artsite.be
www.artsite.be/deweer
Press Release
It is with great pleasure that we hereby inform you about a new exhibition at Deweer Art Gallery. On Saturday 17 April 2004 we will inaugurate the one-man show ‘MATTHIEU LAURETTE – COMMODITIES’. It will be Matthieu Laurette’s first one-man show at a European private gallery outside France. The artist was born in 1970 in Villeneuve St. Georges and he lives and works in Paris. Deweer Art Gallery is delighted to be able to add a new, young French artist to its program.
Matthieu Laurette attracted international attention with his contribution to ‘Platea dell’umanita’, the exhibition curated by Harald Szeemann at the 2001 Venice Biennale. A variation of the large-scale installation entitled ‘Moneyback Life! (Mobile Information Stand for Moneyback Products)’, which was shown there at the Corderia of the Arsenale, will be the main work in the selection of ten which Matthieu Laurette has made for his first show in Otegem.
It is extremely difficult to summarise the work of Matthieu Laurette in a few words. An essential characteristic would seem to be his questioning of the place of the artist in society and specifically in society as it is presented to us in the media.
By way of introduction, here are a few lines from the catalogue of the Venice Biennale that give a good idea of the where the work of Matthieu Laurette is to be situated:
'By turning the laws of marketing and the mass media to his advantage, Matthieu Laurette incorporates his work within a strategy of infiltration and redistribution. In 1993, he established his artistic birth certificate by taking part in a TV game called Tournez manège (The Dating Game) where the female presenter asked him who he was, to which he replied: ?A multimedia artist?. Since then he has been using TV as both a work-place and a work-tool, by instrumentalizing the ability of this medium to bring together not only means of production and broadcasting, but an audience to boot. In an initial phase, by assuming the status of passive viewer, which is offered to all citizens by the spectacle system, he took his place among the audience in a whole host of TV shows, putting together a series of Apparitions/Appearances—ready-made images which owed as much to Duchamp’s idea of rendezvous as they did to Warhol’s fifteen minutes of fame.?
(Freely adapted from Pascal Beausse, ‘Matthieu Laurette’, La 49. Biennale di Venezia, Platea dell’Umanita, Electa, 2001, p. 264-265).
Evelyne Leclerc: What exactly would you like to be later?
Matthieu Laurette: An artist.
E.L.: An artist! Right. But what exactly? A painter? A sculptor?
M.L.: A multimedia artist.
E.L.: Multimedia, well answered!
(Extract from the show Tournez Manège, TF1, 16 March 1993.)
In recent years, Matthieu Laurette has showed his work in many international galleries and museums, including the Solomon Guggenheim Museum in New York, the ICA in London, the MAMCO-Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain in Geneva, the Centre Pompidou, the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, the Palais de Tokyo in Paris and the Deichtorhallen in Hamburg.
Matthieu Laurette has chosen to select a range of different ‘things’ to show at his first exhibition in Belgium. He wanted to present an ensemble of works that are rooted in the reality of the contemporary economy and that are aimed at questioning the value of commodities. Works that answer one another, that are directly connected with everyday reality and that question the media and the process of ‘médiatisation’ as well as the concepts of information, the global economy, money, commerce, travel, the status and the role of the artist, his connections and his influences… Works that have been conceived and created through a great many different processes, often involving ‘third parties’ (the media, graphic designers, waxworks, etc.) The resulting show includes, for instance, a video wall, a sculpture representing the artist, a newly-designed carpet, a giant map of the world, photographs, press cuttings, magazines and posters.
By presenting Matthieu Laurette, Deweer Art Gallery wishes to introduce the Belgian public to a contemporary, international, young and original artist, who definitely deserves your attention. We highly recommend that you visit this show and see for yourself.
The exhibition ‘MATTHIEU LAURETTE - COMMODITIES’ will be held in the large hall of Deweer Art Gallery. During the exhibition of Matthieu Laurette, we will be presenting a selection of works by Panamarenko, Johan Tahon, Koen Vanmechelen and others in our second gallery room on the top floor.
The exhibition ‘MATTHIEU LAURETTE - COMMODITIES’ runs from 17 April up to and including Sunday 6 June. Closed on Thursday 20 May.
A catalogue will be soon available.
We will be happy to help you in organising an interview with the artist, to provide you with more information about the work and/or the artist or with pictures of the works. Please do not hesitate to contact us.
Contact : Jo Coucke,
Deweer Art Gallery
Tiegemstraat 6, B - 8553 Otegem, Belgium.
T.: +32.(0)56.644893 / F.: +32.(0)56.647685 / E.: deweer@artsite.be
invitation card
leaflet
publication
Matthieu Laurette, COMMODITIES feat. Jeff Koons, Robert Ryman and Andy Warhol.
Exh. cat. 24 pages, colour
2004, Deweer Art Gallery (Otegem).
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