Matthieu Laurette
Matthieu Laurette is a French media and conceptual contemporary artist. He works in a variety of media from TV and video to installation and public interventions.
His work has been shown in Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in Soho, New York (1998). The Institute of Contemporary Arts, London (1999 & 2003). 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, NY (2005). Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (2005). Yvon Lambert Gallery, Paris (2005). Kunsthalle & Kunstforum, Vienna (200). The Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney (2006). MNAM-Centre Pompidoy, Paris (1997,2000,2004, 2007 & 2009). In 2003, he received the Richard Prize for the most representative artist within the French scene.
Laurette uses various strategies to explore the relationships between Conceptual Art, Pop Art, Institutional Critique, Economics and Contemporary Society. He is best known works are Apparitions (1993-ongoing), Money Back Products <Produits Rembourses> (1991-2001), Citizenship Project (1996-ongoing), Elgran Trueque (2000) and Deja Vu, The International look-alike Conventions (2000-ongoing).
Laurette's Money Back Products was his method of shopping and being fully refunded based on the basic marketing system of the major food and commodities corporations.
Laurette's Apparition meaning appearance, renegotiates the critique of mass media: amongst love messages banners and goofy signs being held up by the audience of the outdoor broadcast of the NBC infotainment show on Rockefeller Plaza in New York.
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