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John M Armleder - EXTRA CONTENT Elad Lassry

日期
26.11.2009 | 03.02.2010
画廊
London
Celebrating the long-lasting relationship between Galleria Massimo De Carlo and John M Armleder, who have been working together for more than twenty years, Carlson is proud to present an exhibition of the Swiss artist in London. The works that were selected to the show originate from Armleder’s known interest for the imagery of Christmas. In fact, during the last ten years the artist has given a Christmas Party, held annually in Geneva, his hometown. For this famous event, he invites friends and famous characters from the international art scene to join him in his celebration of Nativity. At the same time, these works can be seen as a twisted version of his famous Furniture Sculptures, that he has been creating since the 1990’s. These works consist of installations that usually juxtapose furniture with monochrome or abstract paintings. In this case, the artist changed the pieces of furniture for the typical seasonal decorations, such as trees, crowns, balls and lights, on which he either applied drippings of acrylic paint and glitter, or he displayed in relation to a canvas that functions as a background. Walking around John Armleder’s room, full with Christmassy objects, the viewer is surprised to discover some seemingly hidden photographs of people or objects that have an appealing but also retro look. These are Elad Lassry’s contribute to the exhibition, the second part of Carlson’s EXTRA CONTENT program, in which we invite another artist to act like a virus, incorporating his own work inside another show, thus forcing a dialogue or a crack. There is a similar attitude between John Armleder and Elad Lassry’s creative process in the use of found materials and its subsequent elaboration. In fact, the Los Angeles-based Israeli artist either uses images he found on magazines or he makes photos that are similar to commercial photography from the 70’s and 80’s. Then he introduces delicate modifications that produce new approaches to the past formal appearance. In this case, the portrait of a girl, a series of bunnies and the an image similar to a kitch wallpaper continue with his post-picture approach and open a humorous dialogue with John M Armleder works. They become commodities, almost hidden Christmas gifts, showing the other side of the Christmas objects that surround them.
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John Armleder

约翰·阿姆莱德 (JOHN ARMLEDER) 1948年出生于瑞士日内瓦,现工作居住在日内瓦。


约翰·阿姆莱德跨越五十年的职业生涯融合了该时期中各种相互竞争的美学发展历程。他是上世纪六十年代日内瓦激浪派的一员,是ECART GROUP的创始人,也是新几何运动的领军者。其作品以多样化而闻名,其中包括激浪派精神、抽象艺术、现成品和雕塑、表演艺术,以及房间大小的装置艺术。作为一名艺术家、雕塑家,同时也是表演艺术家,阿姆莱德不断提出问题:艺术是什么;它能做什么;怎样的艺术是被允许的。从房间大小的装置到抽象绘画,从几何构成主义到家具雕塑以及布满图案的墙纸,阿姆莱德的艺术诚然具有至上主义绘画、极简主义雕塑、具体主义和达达主义中日常物件化的属性。


他的作品被众多博物馆永久收藏,包括:蓬皮杜中心,巴黎;现代艺术博物馆,纽约;龙美术馆,上海;盖蒂研究所,洛杉矶;巴塞尔艺术博物馆,瑞士;博尔扎诺现当代艺术博物馆,博尔扎诺;斯德哥尔摩当代艺术馆,瑞典。