EVA and FRANCO MATTES Colorless, Odorless, and Tasteless February 25, 2011

February 25 to April 2, 2011; Opening Reception: Friday, February 25, 5:30 to 7:30pm

Cain Schulte Contemporary Art San Francisco presents the West Coast debut of the New York-based, internationally known video and performance artists Eva and Franco Mattes, aka 0100101110101101.ORG, with their solo exhibition Colorless, Odorless, Tasteless.

For their first solo exhibition in San Francisco, Eva and Franco Mattes will create an interacting installation/performance with an arcade video game. The title Colorless, Odorless, Tasteless refers to the properties of carbon monoxide produced by their arcade video game, rigged with a real car engine that turns on when played. The main focus of this installation/performance is online performances, the video game industry, and environmentalism, but his latest piece, as common in the Matteses work, contains also a great element of reversal of roles.

Eva and Franco Mattes are the Brooklyn based artist-provocateurs behind the infamous website 0100101110101101.ORG. Among the pioneers of the Net Art movement, they have manipulated video games, Internet technologies, feature films and street advertising to reveal truths concealed by contemporary society.

The New York-based Matteses have been working for years using different identities and names in their artworks, impersonating the Vatican, Nike Corporation or Hollywood movie producers. They invented the life and work of an artist who was then invited to participate in the Venice Biennale. They remixed works of other Internet artists, stole parts of many dozens of different art masterpieces, from a Kandinsky to a Warhol, in a performance that lasted two years, and created a fake Maurizio Cattelan's sculpture.

Their art has been featured at the Venice Biennale (2001), the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (2001), Manifesta, Frankfurt (2002) and in various venues worldwide, including the New Museum, New York (2005), Collection Lambert, Avignon (2006) and Performa, New York (2007 and 2009).

Official Website: http://cainschulte.com/exhibits.html