John Armleder: Solid Coated

About

As a conceptual, performance and object artist, John Armleder (*1948) creates works based on the formal repertoire of modernism (constructivism, op-art, pop, abstract painting, but also video and design) with poetic as well as ironic dimensions, in which the tension between art and life, the profound and the banal is balanced. For the exhibition Solid Coated, which takes place both at the Fasanenplatz location and in the new gallery space Wilhelm Hallen, Armleder is showing new works that reflect his artistic practice of recent years.

On view at Fasanenplatz are various series by the artist, such as the well-known Furniture Sculptures or the Pour and Puddle Paintings en miniature – a both self-referential and self-deprecating gesture typical of Armleder’s art. The continuation of the exhibition at the new location in Berlin-Reinickendorf includes, among other works, a large-scale wall painting with neon elements that refer to a typical symbol of Berlin cityscape, as well as new paintings on canvas from the well-known series of Pour Paintings.