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2000 Cliparts is a sequence of two thousand stock clip art illustrations where human figures are grouped by form and pose. Built solely from found material, the pre-made images merge hundreds of illustration styles in a staccato flow of activities. Rather than a taxonomy of human culture, the seamlessly looping stream is a portrait of the compartmentalization inherent in stock imagery. No single image is highlighted or takes precedent as the sum of flickering parts emphasizes collective entanglement. Produced in 2010, 2000 Cliparts marks a significant work associated both with Post-Internet art as well as blog and meme culture.
The work was most recently shown as a standalone exhibit at the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis in 2018.
Oliver Laric was born in 1981 in Innsbruck, Austria, and lives and works in Berlin. Forthcoming exhibitions are scheduled at S.M.A.K. Ghent and OCAT Shanghai. He has had one-person exhibitions at the Saint Louis Art Museum; Kunstverein Braunschweig, Germany; Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin; Secession, Vienna; Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland; Austrian Cultural Forum, London; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.; and the MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts. He has also participated in group exhibitions at the Whitechapel Gallery, London; Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo; Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel; Palais de Tokyo, Paris; Kunstverein München; and the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams. Laric’s work was included in the 2015 New Museum Triennial, 2016 Liverpool Biennial, 2018 São Paulo Biennial, and the 2018 Guangzhou Triennial. He will participate in the 2021 Seoul Mediacity Biennale.
His works are held in the public collections of the Walker Art Center, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, MMK Frankfurt, Cleveland Art Museum, MUMOK Vienna and Hirshhorn Museum Washington D.C. among others.
