Matthieu Laurette

Matthieu Laurette , born in 1970 with Villeneuve-saint-Georges, is a artist-plastics technician French.

Biography

He studied at the Regional School of Beautiful arts and Rennes of 1989 with 1992 then at the School of art of Grenoble between 1993 and 1995.

Its work

Its work beats about the bush of the participation of the individual in the media Public space and .
One of the first projects of Matthieu Laurette was to take part in a great number of emissions, changing of professional spectator ( Apparitions , since 1993). In 1993 it takes part in the television game Tournez horse-gear and declares “multi-media artist ”.
Á the same time it will also make speak about him with its project of the “refunded products”. The challenge was for the artist of living almost exclusively refunded , while benefitting from the promotional offers of the type “first purchase refunded” and “satisfied or refunded”. In fact, Matthieu Laurette makes a success of its bet and arrived a certain time to nourish, wash, shave, and maintain its habitat thanks to these promotional offers.

Projects (selection)

  • “Citizenship Project”, project by which Matthieu Laurette studies how nationalities become sometimes legal goods.

  • El Gran Trueque (great barter) (2000): purchaser of a new car with a budget of exposure, Matthieu Laurette the exchange against a multi-media computer, then exchange this object against another object, and so on until the last exchanged object has almost no value: a batch of 6 glasses. The whole vis-a-vis with the television cameras for a weekly emission of which he was the originator and Co-producer diffused on the chain Canal Bizkaïa in the Basque Country.
  • How to launch a rumor on Internet

As known as the title of one of the exposures in which it took part, Matthieu Laurette can be regarded as a “social Hacker ”

Representation

It from now on is represented by the Gallery Yvon Lambert with Paris and New York as well as the Blow galleries of Barra with London and Deweer with Otegem (Belgium) and took part in the exposure dedicated to the French emergent scene “Our history” to the Palais of Tokyo in January 2006.

External bonds

  • www.laurette.net
  • Galerie Yvon Lambert
  • Galerie Blow of Barred
  • Galerie Deweer

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