John Armleder - Contemporary Art Part I New York Thursday, November 15, 2007 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Art & Public, Geneva

  • Catalogue Essay


    Refusing to be limited to a single genre, medium, or movement and willing to
    throw out the rules of style and good taste in the name of artistic
    experimentation, the Swiss-born artist John Armleder has spent the past
    forty years crafting a legendary reputation and compiling a resume that
    includes painter, sculptor, draughtsman, performance artist, critic and
    curator, as well as associations with highly influential movements ranging
    from Fluxus to Neo-Geo. Possessed of a critic’s distanced view of art history
    and culture’s location within society, Armleder questions the potential of
    artistic radicalism of the historical avant-garde and Modernist varieties to
    exist as anything more than the visual vocabulary of Post-Modernism, as
    distinctions between high and low culture collapse and idealistic artwork
    becomes chic décor.Working within this historical context, Armleder’s
    endeavors as an artist explore issues of critical and audience perception and
    reception, authenticity and authorship, and the combination of myriad
    styles, media and materials: quite often Armleder takes a curatorial
    approach to art-making via the juxtaposition of disparate objets trouvées,
    from disco balls, potted plants and plastic straws, to objects of his own
    design, such as Liberty Dome VIIa, 1998, a series of eight mirrored domes
    mounted on the wall which blurs the lines between sculpture and design,
    fine art and fashionable ornament.

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Liberty Dome VIIa

1998
Mirrored Plexiglas domes (in eight parts).
105 x 226 x 19 in. (266.7 x 574 x 48.3 cm).
Signed and dated “John Armleder 98” and numbered of 10 on the reverse of one disc. This work is from an edition of 10.

Estimate
$30,000 - 40,000 

Sold for $55,000

Contemporary Art Part I

15 Nov 2007, 7pm
New York