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Courtesy of the artist and Massimo De Carlo. Photo by Pasquale Abbattista.
John Armleder
Born in 1948, Geneva, United States
Lives and works in New York City, United States, Genève, Switzerland, Geneva, United States
Overview
John Armleder works exploratively between painting, sculpture, installation and performance. In a career spanning five-decades, Armleder seems decidedly hesitant to become comfortable with a singular media. Over the years, he’s drafted large scale abstract canvases, dripping in luminous strands of paint, he’s transformed furniture into sculpture, hanging tables to the wall like paintings, and he’s crafted elaborate performances with bizarre, absurdist costumes. In the 1960s, Armleder was a stude...Read more
Selected artworks
John Armleder
Untitled (Star Circle 3), 1998
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