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[CONFERENCE] LA VIE D'ARTISTE - PANEL DISCUSSION - 14 DECEMBER 2008 @ SMART PROJECT SPACE, AMSTERDAM

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[matthieulaurette]

[CONFERENCE] LA VIE D'ARTISTE, PANEL DISCUSION @ SMART PROJECT SPACE, AMSTERDAM

-- Dear friends and colleague, just a friendly reminder or a very short notice invitation in case you haven't received the info yet! I'm co-hosting "La Vie d'Artiste", a series of talks and a panel discussion today Sunday 14 December from 2 to 6 pm at SMART Project Space, Arie Biemondstraat 105-113, Amsterdam. Guest speakers include Olav Velthuis, Chris Stolwijk, Ansje van Beusekom, Lech Majewski, Doris Berger and Eva Fotiadi. ‘La Vie d’Artiste’ is organised in conjunction with my current exhibition 'ARTISTS’ BIOPIC CINEMA' at SMART Project Space. It's the last days to see the show which closes on 21 December 2008! Hope to see you there. x ML --

[matthieulaurette]

[CONFERENCE] LA VIE D'ARTISTE - PANEL DISCUSSION - 14 DECEMBER 2008 @ SMART PROJECT SPACE, AMSTERDAM

-- Press Release: Amsterdam, 4 December 2008 - For immediate release - LA VIE D'ARTISTE A panel discussion on the artist as object of appropriation by intellectual and popular discourse Sunday 14 December 2008, 14.00 - 18.00 hrs Location: SMART Project Space, Arie Biemondstraat 105-113, Amsterdam Where: Auditorium – Level 1 Admission: free www.smartprojectspace.net At each moment of history groups emerge from society to cohere and structure different forms of singularity: the saint, the genius and the hero in the past, the missionary, the artist and the champion today. Vincent van Gogh is the best example of the notion of artistic singularity that 20th century society has had of the 19th century artist: a paradigmatic figure of a new model of the artist who would be turned into a popular symbol. The Van Gogh phenomenon has become a synonym for the legend of the artist, destined to be wrapped in a public affection nourished by a host of variables in the treatment, and also destined to be critically reviewed by the social sciences as well as art history and anthropology, which make values spontaneously perceived as absolute, timeless and universally relative. The first and most obvious hypothesis concerning the cinematic representation of artistic gesture rests on Roland Barthes’ idea of the open existence of public figures who are the object of appropriation by intellectual and popular discourse. Just as the person and the life of the artist have been essayed by the biography, the character and emotions by exegesis of the pictures, the diagnosis of the illness by psychiatric and artistic studies, the existential anguish and the social criticism by literature, the motifs of images by modern philosophy… artistic gesture has been essayed by cinematic fiction. Artistic gesture is taken from the artist’s legend and from that legend the representation of the gesture inherits and recreates given forms and commonplaces. The discussion ‘La Vie d’Artiste’ proposes to frame the broad territory of cinematic biography, the natural framework for representation of the artistic gesture, which includes everything from an exhaustive vision of an artist’s life or career, by way of slices of life —a few years, months or days— down to a life flash. ‘La Vie d’Artiste’ is organised in conjunction with the current exhibition Matthieu Laurette presents ARTISTS’ BIOPIC CINEMA that traverses all 6 gallery spaces at SPS which Laurette playfully described as “a sort of Institutional Critique meets Film Industry meets Art Sociology meets Art Economy meets Art History. Laurette has created a series of cinema spaces that continually screen 18 full-length feature films that represent the mythical characters of Andy Warhol, Rembrandt, Vincent van Gogh, Francis Bacon and Salvador Dali and other famous artists. GUEST SPEAKERS AND PROGRAMME 14.00-14.10 Welcome and introduction by Thomas Peutz (general director SMART Project Space and co-curator of the current exhibition ARTISTS’ BIOPIC CINEMA 14.10-14.20 Artist Matthieu Laurette established himself in the 1990’s through his exploration of the relationship between art, spectacle, media and economy. Laurette will give a brief introduction in which he discusses the aims and motivation behind his current solo exhibition at SPS. 14.25-14.45 Olav Velthuis is Assistant Professor at the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam. His publications include Imaginary Economics and Talking Prices. Symbolic Meanings of Prices on the Market for Contemporary Art. 14.50-15.10 Chris Stolwijk is the acting Head of Research at the Van Gogh Museum. He has published works on nineteenth-century art and the art market. Stolwijk will provide a historical context to the discussion and address the romantic-idealised image of artist-hood in the 19th century. 15.15-15.30 break 15.35-16.05 Ansje van Beusekom teaches film history and media studies at Utrecht University. Her lecture will explore depictions of the troubled artist in cinema, focusing on how the art world is being represented in Fritz Lang’s Scarlet Street (1947) and Julian Schnabel’s Basquiat (1996). 16.05-16.25 Lech Majewski is a Polish-American film and theatre director, writer, poet, and painter. In 2006, MOMA (NYC) hosted a retrospective of Majewski's work. For that programme, Majewski created an experimental feature called Glass Lips (2007) which premieres at SMART Cinema after the symposium. Majewski will discuss his experiences writing the screenplay for Julian Schnabel’s biopic Basquiat (1996). 16.25-16.35 break 16.40-16.45 Doris Berger is an art historian, curator, critic and works as an editor for BHA at the Getty Research Institute in LA where is working on a Ph.D. about artists' myths and legendary stars in Hollywood movies. In her talk Berger will address the most recurrent mechanisms in artist biopics. 16.50-18.00 Panel discussion moderated by Eva Fotiadi. Fotiadi has studied art history, archaeology and museum studies in Greece, the U.K, and the Netherlands and has recently completed her Ph.D on participation and collaboration in contemporary art. 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. Editorial note ------------------ For more information, video and photo material, please contact our press officier, Irmin van der Meijden: telephone [phone] or [email protected] By publication, please mention: www.smartprojectspace.net Photos: Nils Vis --