STURTEVANT

1924, Lakewood, États-Unis - 2014, Paris
Retournant sur elle-même la logique du Pop Art, Sturtevant s’est immiscée dans l’écriture de l’Histoire de l’art en repétant les oeuvres d’artistes avant qu’ils ne soient reconnus internationalement, faisant ainsi montre d’une étonnante intuition. Précédant de quinze ans le mouvement appropriationiste, apparu dans les années 80, ses répétitions ne sont pas de simples exercices mimétiques ou une protoappropriation, mais bien la réinterpreation d’une partition jouée par des hommes. Ses oeuvres étudient le champ de l’art par l’étude de leur fabrication, leur réception, leur circulation et leur canonisation.


ça va aller
1998

Original collage for the invitation card; slide projection; two films 12 min 20 sec each, synchronized, sound : DJ La Doublure; Adidas shoes; Batman collage (cover of VHS)
and limited edition of 8.
Drawing contest: lucky winner announced by Blues Brothers : Jean-Yves Jouannais, Bernard Blistène, Sturtevant, Michel Bourrel and Nicolas Bourriaud.

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Blow Job
2006

A 3 camera video devised for movement and sounds to emphasize the vast space of pornography: its blatant subjectivity, it’s use and abuse, it’s reality and brutality, it’s beauty and distortions; its “funny-fun” and rabid sadness and sadism. The ever-present artificial and falsity hover and hang; sending it with one swipe to the higher power of simulacra.
STURTEVANT, 2009

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STUPIDITY
2013

For a while pornography might have been considered, theorised and experienced as revolutionary, but now, diluted by commodification, it has to be faced not as sensual immersion but as senseless indetermination. Pornography is the world around us: the pounding of mindnumbing images masquerading as fun and the endless urging to join the consumer festivities. So when Sturtevant reworks an entire advertising video in the form of deftly composed wallpaper, it’s a killer.

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TRILOGY OF TRANSGRESSION
2004

This critic and aggressive work by STURTEVANT is very powerful, it is composed by ready made images from TV and advertising edited in loop.

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ça va aller
2020

Air de Paris, Romainvlle, 12.01 - 14.03.2020.

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Sturtevant Duchamp Wanted
1991

Offset print mounted on black cardboard, frame
41,5 x 34,5 x 3,5 cm

Krazy Kat
1986

Ink and graphite pencil on paper
20,71 x 24,65 cm

Air de Paris