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RUSSIAN SPACE AGE NIGHT

23 April 2010 CCCP IN SPACE Russian space age night Performed by OMFO SMART Project Space Amsterdam photography © Andrei Tcherinkov

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[I MET] MARTY LAMERS, AYAKO YOSHIMURA AND DELPHINE BEDEL LAST VISITORS @ 'ARTISTS' BIOPIC CINEMA' A FEW MINUTES BEFORE THE EXHIBITION CLOSES

-- Marty Lamers and Ayako Yoshimura Delphine Bedel and Ayako Yoshimura --

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[EXHIBITION] LAST DAYS! MATTHIEU LAURETTE PRESENTS ARTISTS' BIOPICS CINEMA @ SMART PROJECT SPACE (UNTIL 21 DECEMBER 2008)

-- Last chance to see ARTISTS' BIOPICS CINEMA at SMART Project Space, Amsterdam (exhibition until Sunday 21 December 2008) 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. ARTISTS' BIOPICS CINEMA, entrance with LED sign ARTISTS' BIOPICS CINEMA, entrance with LED sign ARTISTS' BIOPICS CINEMA, lobby with movie posters ARTISTS' BIOPICS CINEMA, lobby with movie posters ARTISTS' BIOPICS CINEMA - Space 1: Caravaggio, directed by Derek Jarman (1986) ARTISTS' BIOPICS CINEMA - Space 1: Nightwatching, directed by Peter Greenaway (2007). ARTISTS' BIOPICS CINEMA - Space 2: Paradise Found, directed by Mario Andreacchio (2003), with Kiefer Sutherland as Paul Gauguin. ARTISTS' BIOPICS CINEMA - Space 2: Lust for Life, directed by Vincente Minnelli (1956) with Kirk Douglas as Vincent Van Gogh. ARTISTS' BIOPICS CINEMA - Space 2: Lautrec, directed by Roger Planchon (1998). ARTISTS' BIOPICS CINEMA - Space 2 & Space 3: Paradise Found, directed by Mario Andreacchio (2003), with Kiefer Sutherland as Paul Gauguin and Klimt, directed by Raoul Ruiz. ARTISTS' BIOPICS CINEMA - Space 3: Modigliani, directed by Mick Davis (2004) ARTISTS' BIOPICS CINEMA - Space 3: Camille Claudel, directed by Bruno Nuytten (1998), with Isabelle Adjani as Camille Claudel and Gerard Depardieu as Auguste Rodin. ARTISTS' BIOPICS CINEMA - Space 3: Camille Claudel, directed by Bruno Nuytten (1998), with Gerard Depardieu as Auguste Rodin. ARTISTS' BIOPICS CINEMA - Space 3: Camille Claudel, directed by Bruno Nuytten (1998), with Isabelle Adjani as Camille Claudel. ARTISTS' BIOPICS CINEMA - Space 4: Dalí, directed by Antoni Ribas (1991), with Loreno Quin as Salvador Dalí. ARTISTS' BIOPICS CINEMA - Space 4: Frida, directed by Julie Taymor (2002), with Salma Hayek as Frida Kahlo. ARTISTS' BIOPICS CINEMA - Space 5: Surviving Picasso, directed by James Ivory (1996), with Anthony Hopkins as Pablo Picasso. ARTISTS' BIOPICS CINEMA - Space 6: Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon, directed by John Maybury (1998), with Derek Jacobi as Francis Bacon. ARTISTS' BIOPICS CINEMA - Space 6: Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon, directed by John Maybury (1998), with Derek Jacobi as Francis Bacon. ARTISTS' BIOPICS CINEMA - Space 6: Pollock, directed by Ed Harris (2000) with Ed Harris as Jackson Pollock and Marcia Gay Harden as Lee Krasner. ARTISTS' BIOPICS CINEMA - Space 6: Basquiat, directed by Julian Schnabel (1996). ARTISTS' BIOPICS CINEMA - Space 6: Basquiat, directed by Julian Schnabel (1996) with Jeffrey Wright as Jean-Michel Basquiat. ARTISTS' BIOPICS CINEMA - Space 6: Basquiat, directed by Julian Schnabel (1996) with David Bowie as Andy Warhol. Photos: Nils Vis --

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

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[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 --

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[I MET] DENIS GAUDEL & MATTHIEU DE STAMPA @ ARTISTS' BIOPIC CINEMA

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[I MET] SETH SIEGELAUB AND MARJA BLOEM @ ARTISTS' BIOPIC CINEMA

-- Seth Siegelaub and Marja Bloem watching 'Factory Girl' in space 5 on one of their weekly visit to ARTISTS' BIOPIC CINEMA. --

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[EXHIBITION] MATTHIEU LAURETTE PRESENTS ARTISTS' BIOPICS CINEMA @ SMART PROJECT SPACE, 1 NOVEMBER - 21 DECEMBER 2008

-- Press Release: Amsterdam, 15 November 2008 - For immediate release - 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. 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: Niels Vis -- Matthieu Laurette presents ARTISTS' BIOPICS CINEMA 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 --