John M Armleder: CA. CA.

John M Armleder is considered one of the most important contemporary artists in Europe. His extensive oeuvre includes large-scale installations, paintings, light works and performances. The profound and the banal, chance and planning, high culture and everyday life combine in John Armleder's work to create a unique experience. The Swiss (born 1948) is one of the most influential conceptual, performance and object artists of our time. His works - often humorous or ironically fractured commentaries on today's reality - draw on the formal repertoire of classical modernism as well as video and design, whose influences he combines with great media diversity. This volume shows in detail the wide range of Armleder's work by means of site-specific, large-scale installations and wall works in indoor and outdoor spaces. By combining different media, surfaces and materials, the artist creates spatial events that, despite their heterogeneity, have a great aesthetic impact on the viewer. The catalogue is published to accompany the exhibition at the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt from 7 June to 1 September 2019.