John M Armleder. Fish

05.11.2016 - 11.02.2017

Galerie Elisabeth & Klaus Thoman Wien, Wien / Österreich

Eröffnung Samstag 5. November 2016 12 Uhr
John M Armleder ist anwesend

Die Galerie Elisabeth & Klaus Thoman Wien freut sich anlässlich ihres Fünf Jahre zur Eröffnung der Ausstellung JOHN M ARMLEDER FISH einladen zu dürfen und so den Bogen zu spannen zur ersten Wiener Ausstellung im November 2016, John M Armleders LATE.

John M Armleder hat die Kunstpraxis der Postmoderne entscheidend mitgeprägt und das Feld des Kunst Machens, Ausstellens und Erlebens maßgeblich erweitert. Spielerisch löst Armleder die Grenzen zwischen Kunst, Dekor und Leben auf, verbindet und transformiert in seinem vielgestaltigen Oeuvre die Bildwelten des 20.... und beginnenden 21. Jahrhunderts, historische Moderne und Massenkultur, Hochkultur und Trash. John M Armleder schafft Objekte, Installationen, Zeichnung, Malerei und Perfomances und arbeitet mit Design, Musik, Alltagsgegenständen, Flitter, Ikonen der Moderne usw. Keiner Theorie oder Agenda verpflichtet lässt er Werke von eigentümlicher Schönheit entstehen.

Mit der aktuellen Edition und Ausstellungbezieht sich Armleder auf Wien und seine jüngere künstlerische und ästhetische Geschichte. Er zitiert Gustav Klimt (SILVER FISH, GOLD FISH) und schafft fruniture sculptures mit dem legendären Galaxy Chair von Walter Pichler und dem Sofa Cubus von Carl Auböck II.


Opening Saturday November 5th, 2016 12 p.m.
John M Armleder is present

Gallery Elisabeth & Klaus Thoman cordially invites you, on the occasion of its five year anniversary, to the exhibition JOHN M ARMLEDER FISH. With this exhibition the gallery links to its first Viennese exhibition in November 2011, John M Armleders LATE:

John M Armleder has played a vital role in shaping postmodern European and international art practice over the last 40 years. As a co-founder of the influential Groupe Ecart in the early 1960s he helped open up new ways of producing, exhibiting and, most importantly, experiencing contempoaray art to a broad public.

Armleder’s 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 created by Armleder in recent years have always been eclectic in their nature and appearance. Through playful compositions the presented objects are often completely divorced from any formal artistic concerns. The artist actively blurs the traditional notions of the support and the surface, of the subject and object and of high and low art. As such, he 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. Armleder’s works are essentially pictorial in their compositions as they transcend the differences between decorative design and artwork. As a result, his work has always offered stirring modes of presentation whilst, at the same time, opening up the picture pane to include all its surrounding space.

In the current edition and exhibition Armleder refers to Vienna and its latter artistical and aesthetic history. He quotes Gustav Klimt (SILVER FISH, GOLD FISH) and creates furniture sculptures with the legendary Galaxy Chair by Walter Pichler and the couch Cubus by Carl Auböck II.

[Quelle: Einladung]