Eva and Franco Mattes aka 0100101110101101.org have just released a book (Charta, 2009) about their precocious art career.
The book recapitulates the couple’s memorable exploits, including their participation in the multiple-use nameLuther Blissett, the fake Nikeground campaign in Vienna, the poster ad for United We Stand, a fictitious film on the power dreams of the European Union, and their recent Synthetic Performances in Second Life.
The book also reveals the couple’s very first (and until now undisclosed) work: Stolen Pieces. From 1995 to 1997, the Matteses toured the world’s most important museums and stole dozens of fragments from well-known works by artists such as Duchamp, Kandinsky, Beuys and Rauschenberg. This work, which has remained a secret for 14 years, is revealed and discussed here for the very first time.
Texts by Domenico Quaranta, Bruce Sterling, RoseLee Goldberg, Wu Ming, Fabio Cavallucci, Maurizio Cattelan, Joline Blais and Jon Ippolito, Tilman Baumgärtel, Marco Deseriis and Matthew Mirapaul.
