Project organized by Yann Abrecht, Filipe Dos Santos, Charlotte Schaer
For more than 50 years, John M Armleder (Geneva, 1948) has been developing a practice in which art never exists alone, but always in relation to space, chance, encounters or everyday life. As an heir to conceptual art and Fluxus, Armleder rejects traditional hierarchies and blurs the distinctions between artwork and decor, exhibition and situation, art and life.
Installed on the ground floor of the building that is hosting the MAMCO team during the museum's renovation, the project takes on a variety of forms: shop, private interior, exhibition, and tea room. This boutique unique brings together the "ancillary productions" of John M. Armleder's practice, offering a colorful selection of objects: from umbrellas to caps hanging in the vestibule, from the door handle that leads the public into a room with plaids, stools, suit jackets, ties and cufflinks or travel bags, to the café with porcelain dishes, glasses, coffee cups or wine boxes bearing Armleder's signature. Created in the course of his encounters and projects, these objects blur the boundaries between the useful and the artistic, in a decompartmentalizing movement between work and its environment, art and everyday life.
One of the distinctive features of Encore(s) is that almost all of the objects on display are available for purchase, either directly from the artist's stock or because they are new productions created in collaboration with MAMCO. By placing visitors face to face with these hybrid objects, John M Armleder reminds us that his art constantly explores the circulation of forms, ideas and contexts.
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