Matthieu Laurette on Clubhouse

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📄 « 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.


📄 « 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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