ARMLEDER: JOHN ARMLEDER

Internationally acclaimed Swiss artist John Armleder defies the limitations of style and media by mixing them in refreshing combinations. John Armleder's furniture-sculptures combine painting and sculpture, drawing liberally from traditional art references, from modernist art, modern design, constructivism and art deco, to minimalism, op art, music, and film. The resulting images, sculptures, and installations often involve the viewer's active participation his art is as much experienced as it is viewed. Armleder has exhibited his work extensively throughout Europe and North America. His work Untitled (FS 181) is part of the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York. The artist curated the exhibition None of the Above (winter 2004-2005) at the Swiss Institute of Contemporary Art in New York. A solo exhibition of his work opened in May 2005 at the Cosmic Galerie in Paris. This comprehensive book charts Armleder's career through an interview, an analytical retrospective text, and 150 images, which present the artist's eclectic output from his early work to his current projects. His theoretical texts and critical pieces are published here together for the first time.