
Since the 1970s, John Armleder has been throwing, pouring and dripping paint onto canvas - letting gravity, chance, and the chemistry of drying paint do the work, as colour cascades and pools into layered striations.
His monumental new work, Lash, is presented at Art Basel Unlimited, the fair’s platform for large-scale works that go beyond the booth.



John Armleder was born in Geneva in 1948, where he lives and works.


MASSIMODECARLO gallery was founded in 1987. It switfly stood out on the international artistic scene for its bold, counter-current choices: the gallery focused on lesser-known artists in Italy such as John Armleder, Olivier Mosset, Steven Parrino and Carsten Höller. In the following years, the gallery program expanded to include prominent young artists of the time such as Alighiero Boetti, Cady Noland, Rudolf Stingel, and Felix Gonzalez-Torres.
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