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b. 1948, Switzerland

John M Armleder Biography

John M Armleder is one of the most important and influential Swiss artists of his generation. With his stylistic breadth and vocabulary, he has created an inimitable universe of diverse works that oscillate fluidly between the fields of art, design, concept, geometry, Pop and Trash. His re-investigation of what art is, what art can do, and what art is allowed to do remains as vital now as it has been throughout his career.

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Armleder’s work has its origins in Fluxus, and particularly in that movement’s shared interest in chance and performance. Yet his work defies easy categorisation. Despite the influence of Fluxus attitudes and the artist’s passion for the musical compositions of John Cage, Armleder’s work has always resisted the manifesto, any form of theoretical attitudes or indeed, a social or political agenda.

The objects, installations, paintings, sculptures and performances he has created in recent years have always been eclectic in their nature and appearance. His paintings are often juxtaposed with furniture or design objects or hung on wallpaper of repeated motifs.

Through playful compositions the objects he presents are often completely divorced from any formal artistic concerns. He actively blurs the traditional notions of the support and the surface, of the subject and object and of high and low art, and challenges customary ways in which the viewer has come to perceive and experience modern and contemporary art and the nature of the places that have come to be used for its display.

John M Armleder
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Genjõraku by John M Armleder contemporary artwork painting, works on paper, sculpture, photography, print
John M Armleder Genjõraku, 2022 Mixed media on canvas
110 x 150 x 4 cm
Almine Rech Contact Gallery
White River by John M Armleder contemporary artwork painting
John M Armleder White River, 2021 Mixed media on canvas
65 x 65 x 4 cm
Almine Rech Contact Gallery
Fuse by John M Armleder contemporary artwork painting
John M Armleder Fuse, 2021 Mixed media on canvas
150 x 110 x 4 cm
Almine Rech Contact Gallery
Côté est by John M Armleder contemporary artwork painting, works on paper, sculpture, photography, print
John M Armleder Côté est, 2018 Mixed media on canvas
215 x 150 cm
Almine Rech Contact Gallery
Kleen Kanteen by John M Armleder contemporary artwork painting, works on paper, sculpture, photography, print
John M Armleder Kleen Kanteen, 2019 Mixed media on canvas
150.2 x 120.3 x 4.4 cm
Almine Rech Contact Gallery
Untitled 2 by John M Armleder contemporary artwork painting
John M Armleder Untitled 2, 1990 Acrylic on canvas
190 x 190 x 3 cm
Galerie Tanit Contact Gallery
Untitled 1 by John M Armleder contemporary artwork painting
John M Armleder Untitled 1, 1990 Acrylic on canvas
190 x 170 x 3 cm
Galerie Tanit Contact Gallery
Ash by John M Armleder contemporary artwork sculpture
John M Armleder Ash, 2019 Mirrored acrylic, mirrored glass, disco balls, stainless steel spheres
David Kordansky Gallery Enquire
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John M Armleder
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John M Armleder
represented by

Almine Rech contemporary art gallery in Brussels, Belgium
Almine Rech Aspen, Brussels, London, New York, Paris +1
David Kordansky Gallery contemporary art gallery in Los Angeles, USA
David Kordansky Gallery Los Angeles, New York
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