MATTHIEU LAURETTE'S 'ARTIST BIOPICS CINEMA', LAST DAYS!

Matthieu Laurette presents
ARTISTS' BIOPICS CINEMA

SMART Project Space
Arie Biemondstraat 105-113, Amsterdam
Open daily: Mon – Sat 12.00 – 22.00 hrs, Sun 14.00 – 22.00 hrs
Exhibition until 21 December 2008
Admission: free
www.smartprojectspace.net

SMART Project Space presents the first solo exhibition by French artist Matthieu Laurette to be staged in the Netherlands since 1998. Laurette established himself in the 1990’s with his exploration of the relationships between art, spectacle, media and economy using a variety of media, from TV and video to installation and public interventions.

For the exhibition ARTISTS’ BIOPIC CINEMA, that traverses all 6 gallery spaces at Smart Project Space, Laurette has created a series of 6 cinema spaces that continually screen 18 full-length Hollywood and art house feature films portraying the mythical characters of Andy Warhol, Rembrandt, Jackson Pollock, Pablo Picasso, Gustav Klimt, Frida Kahlo, Vincent van Gogh, Salvador Dalí, Camille Claudel, Caravaggio, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Francis Bacon and other famous artists.

Laurette playfully described the exhibition as “a sort of Institutional Critique meets Film Industry meets Art Sociology meets Art Economy meets Art History" where visitors can observe ways in which the film industry cultivates feeds and perpetuates the myth of the artist.

Matthieu Laurette (1970) lives and work in Amsterdam, his work has been shown in venues such as Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum 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), P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center/MoMA, N.Y (2005), Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (2005), Yvon Lambert Gallery, Paris (2005), Kunsthalle & Kunstforum, Vienna (2005), the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney (2006), MNAM-Centre Pompidou, Paris, (2000, 2004 & 2007), MoMA, New York (2007). He is represented by Deweer Art Gallery, Otegem and Gaudel de Stampa, Paris.

The exhibition Matthieu Laurette presents ARTISTS’ BIOPIC CINEMA is open daily:
Mon – Sat 12.00 – 22.00 hrs, Sun 14.00 – 22.00 hrs
Exhibition until 21 December 2008

SMART Project Space is kindly supported by Mondriaan Foundation, Gemeente Amsterdam, Bureau Broedplaatsen, Stichting DOEN, Filmfonds, Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds, VSBfonds, Amsterdam Fund for the Arts.

Matthieu Laurette presents
ARTISTS' BIOPICS CINEMA
at
SMART Project Space
1 November - 21 December 2008

FEATURING

Francis Bacon, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Michelangelo Caravaggio, Camille Claudel, Salvador Dalí, Paul Gauguin, Artemisia Gentileschi, Vincent van Gogh, Frida Kahlo, Gustav Klimt, Amedeo Modigliani, Pablo Picasso, Jackson Pollock, Rembrandt van Rijn, Egon Schiele, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Johannes Vermeer and Andy Warhol.

And also: Emile Bernard, Ferdinand Bol, Jean Cocteau, Edgar Degas, Gerard Dou, Carel Fabritius, Orazio Gentileschi, Françoise Gilot, David Hockney, Max Jacob, Oskar Kokoschka, Willem de Kooning, Lee Krasner, Dora Maar, David McDermott, Peter McGough, Henri Matisse, Claude Monet, Camille Pissaro, Isabel Rawsthorne, Auguste Renoir, Diego Rivera, Auguste Rodin, Georges Seurat, David Alfaro Siqueiros, Chaim Soutine, Agostino Tassi, Maurice Utrillo, Suzanne Valadon and more…

FILMS:

Space 1:
Caravaggio, directed by Derek Jarman (1986)
Artemisia, directed by Agnès Merlet (1997)
Nightwatching, directed by Peter Greenaway (2007)
Space 2:
Paradise Found, directed by Mario Andreacchio (2003)
Lust for Life, directed by Vincente Minnelli (1956)
Lautrec, directed by Roger Planchon (1998)
Space 3:
Klimt, directed by Raoul Ruiz (2006)
Modigliani, directed by Mick Davis (2004)
Camille Claudel, directed by Bruno Nuytten (1988)
Space 4:
Egon Schiele - Exzesse, directed by Herbert Vesely (1981)
Dalí, directed by Antoni Ribas (1991)
Frida, directed by Julie Taymor (2002)
Space 5:
Girl with a Pearl Earring, directed by Peter Webber (2003)
Surviving Picasso, directed by James Ivory (1996)
Factory Girl, directed by George Hickenlooper (2006)
Space 6:
Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon, directed by John Maybury (1998)
Pollock, directed by Ed Harris (2000)
Basquiat, directed by Julian Schnabel (1996)

With thanks to the film distributors who collaborated with us on this project and a special thanks to the Independent Film and European Film Partners.

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represented by
DEWEER ART GALLERY, Otegem
http://www.deweerartgallery.com
GAUDEL DE STAMPA, Paris
http://www.gaudeldestampa.com
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current projects
MATTHIEU LAURETTE: I AM AN ARTIST
25 October - 20 December 2008
Gaudel de Spampa, Paris, France
MATTHIEU LAURETTE PRESENTS
ARTISTS'BIOPIC CINEMA
1 November - 20 December 2008
Smart Project Space, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
RICARD FOUNDATION PRIZE
31 October - 30 November 2008
Winzavod, Moscow, Russia
LA VIDÉO, UN ART, UNE HISTOIRE, 1965-2007
COLLECTION CENTRE POMPIDOU
25 October 2008 - 18 January 2009
Musée Fabre, Montpellier, France
TOOL BOX
8 November - 20 December 2008
La Base d'appui d'Entre-Deux, Nantes, France

more info http://www.laurette.net/projects
http://www.myspace.com/matthieulaurette
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