Oliver Laric
Artist's Website: http://oliverlaric.com
Biography
Oliver Laric is an internet-based artist, born 1981 in Austria, now lives and works in Berlin, Germany. He has educated in University of Applied Arts Vienna (Class of 2007). But as the theme of his work relates to concepts of authorship, truth, original and copy this biography might not be exactly correct. When Domenico Quaranta asked him : "According to my Google searches, you were born in Leipzig and Innsbruck, you are black and Caucasian, and you have said: “I usually give fake CVs when I am asked to give a CV. Recently I started giving real ones.” And now?"
Oliver Laric replied: "I am hiring a writer to develop multiple biographies." [1]
He publishes his artworks online on his website: oliverlaric.com in chronological order. He is also a co-founder of vvork.com that in 2006 together with a group of friends founded. VVORK is an art blog acting as an exhibition space and, occasionally, a curatorial platform that organizes events in brick-and-mortar venues. [2]
Art Works
Oliver Laric’s web-based artistic practice or net art is characterised by the manipulation and reinterpretation of existing cultural images. He operates in a simulacral space where concepts of authorship, truth, presence, original and copy are shown to be obsolete, or at least irrelevant.[3] His art has been deeply rooted in the concept of questioning ownership, with his works over the years not only being interesting and provocative, but also entertaining and humorous at times, as he has made kopienkritik, or ‘copy criticism’ a modern genre and process of his own.[4] In his work Versions he explores how the copy, the bootleg, and the remix have played a part in both historic and contemporary image cultures.
Solo Exhibitions
He has participated in many group exhibitions as well as his solo exhibition. This a list of the solo shows:
Seventeen, London, UK (solo)
2013
Born this way, Bogdan Bogdanovic, Aleksandra Domanovic, Oliver Laric, Won sye Bong, Galleria Monica De Cardenas, Milan, Italy (solo) 2013
The Feverish Library (curated by Matthew Higg), Capitain Petzel, Berlin, Germany (solo) 2013
Versions, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge MA, USA (solo) 2013
CAS Annual Award, Lincoln Museum, Lincolnshire, UK (solo) 2013
Studio International, Leipzig, Germany (solo) 2013
MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA, USA (solo) 2012
FUTURA Center for Contemporary Art, Prague, Czech Republic (solo) 2012
Art Statements, Art|43|Basel, Basel, Switzerland (solo) 2012
With Aleksandra Domanovic, Villa du Parc Centre d’art Contemporain, Annemasse, France (solo) 2012
Be Water My Friend, Tanya Leighton Gallery, Berlin, Germany (solo) 2012
Oliver Laric / Martin Westwood, Peles Empire, London, UK (solo) 2012
Diamond Grill, Seventeen Gallery, London, UK (solo) 2011
Kopienkritik, Skulpturhalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland (solo) 2011
Shanzhai Turbo, Western Front, Vancouver, Canada (solo) 2011
Aleksandra Domanovic & Oliver Laric, MaxHansDaniel, Berlin, Germany (solo) 2010
Versions, Seventeen, London, UK (solo) 2010
Versions, Solo presentation, Frame, Frieze Art Fair, London, UK (solo) 2010
Versions, 5 minute Museum, Eindhoven, Netherlands (solo) 2010
Combination of works, Pavillion 2009, Oslo, Norway (solo) 2009
50 50 2008↓↑ Touch My Body, SEVENTEEN, London, UK (solo) 2008
Espace Doll, Lausanne, Switzerland (solo) 2008 [5]
References
- ↑ http://artpulsemagazine.com/the-real-thing-interview-with-oliver-laric
- ↑ http://artpulsemagazine.com/the-real-thing-interview-with-oliver-laric
- ↑ http://thisistomorrow.info/articles/artist-profile-oliver-laric
- ↑ http://www.tanyaleighton.com/index.php?pageId=422
- ↑ http://www.monicadecardenas.com/milano/artists/oliver-laric/#biography
External Links
http://www.tanyaleighton.com/p/p000422/LARIC_PRESS_4fcc0.pdf
wiki author
- Farnoosh Shahrokhi