(Apr. 13) – Eva and Franco Mattes, famous Italian video artists, known as 0100101110101101.org, comes back to Europe after a long period in the United States. They will be protagonist of an exhibition at Carroll-Fletcher, in London, from today and until May 18. Titled ‘Anonymous, untitled, dimensions variable’, it is a “compelling cacophony of facts and fictions”, as stated in the presentation, which traces the “subversive” actions undertaken by the duo in recent years. On display, among other things, the two disputed works of 2010: ‘Stolen In Pieces’ and ‘No Fun’. The first one shows fragments of works by Jeff Koons, Claes Oldenburg, Joseph Beuys and Marcel Duchamp stolen in various museums around the world in the mid 90s, when the duo were in their early twenties and known as the ‘Bonnie Clyde of contemporary art’. Those thefts are now prescribed. ‘No Fun’ documents Franco Mattes’ simulated suicide in a famous public chat room, accompanied by the reactions of the audience. The video was censored by Youtube a few hours after publication. And more: ‘Freedom’ (2010), a performance in an online war video-game, ‘Even My Generation’ (2010) is a clips’ collection of violent video game players, ‘The Others’ (2011) is the projection of slides in a continuous flow of 10,000 photographs stolen from Facebook profiles. (Red/Peg)
