Category Archives: ARMLEDER, JOHN M



JOHN M ARMLEDER, AP [door sign], 1993-1994

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AP, 1993-1994
enamel door sign (name plate)
22,7 x 16,2 cm, edition 6 + 2 AP
signed, numbered, dated
published by GALERIE VAN GELDER EDITIONS, Amsterdam    
€ 3.400,-

* John M Armleder made this logo composed of two letters inside a tumbled zero for AP Magazine published by Galerie van Gelder in Amsterdam. Each copy was supposed to have a glued sticker with this logo on the cover. The first and only issue has contributions of John Tremblay, Claude Closky, Sylvie Fleury and Marijke van Warmerdam. A small edition was produced as an enamel door plate. Ever since a proof of this plate is mounted next to the entrance of Galerie van Gelder. For the Basel Art Fair 1992 he initiated a co-operation called ‘AP / Associated Publishers Ecart Editions’ with the following galleries:

Gallery Daniel Newburg, New York

Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne

Gallery John Gibson, New York

Galerie van Gelder, Amsterdam

Ecart, Geneva

JOHN M ARMLEDER, La Ligne d’ Arrivée, 1993

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La Ligne d’Arrivée, 1993
21 x 9,7 cm
‘Plat du Jour’ voucher of 200 FFrs
edition of 100
signed, numbered, dated
rare
€ 185,- plus € 13,- Track & Trace registered EU mail

‘La Ligne d’Arrivée’ was a restaurant opposite Galerie Gilbert Brownstone & Cie in Paris. The voucher – here unused – could be validated by dining at the restaurant. Only ca 30 have been signed by the artist and very few have been issued, because soon the restaurant closed its doors.

History of prices:
€ 125,- Galerie van Gelder, Amsterdam December 2011
€ 150,- Galerie van Gelder, Amsterdam June 2016

JOHN M ARMLEDER, U 40 drop cloth, 1992

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‘U 40 drop cloth’, 1992
ca 30 x 30 cm
each piece is unique, edition of 106
dripping paint on cloth, pizza box, label on lid
signed, dated
€ 450,- plus € 18,- Track & Trace registered EU mail
produced by Galerie van Gelder Editions, Amsterdam

 

This is a series of unique ‘Drop cloths’ John Armleder has made on cotton. While preparing his solo exhibition in the Centraal Museum Utrecht in 1992 creating a large three panel ‘Pour Painting’ of 3 x 6 meters. After having finished the huge painting the poured over piece of cotton was one big left-over, which was eventually cut into 105 pieces, still wet and very smelly. The 106th piece appeared to be a real left-over as it is shaped in the form of a very long stretched out triangle. The artist folded this one zigzagging into the last pizza box. The code ‘U 40′ refers to the forty paintings he showed in the museum. On the pizza box is a large red sticker ‘U 40 Drop Cloth’ with artist’ name and date. All are signed on the inside of the box. Some of the works are signed on the cloth itself as well as on the box. The edition has not been numbered.

Note: in 1993 the Wiener Secession in Vienna produced a second drop cloth edition, smaller in size and on coloured fabric with a label on the inside of each pizza box.

 

JOHN M ARMLEDER, OLIVIER MOSSET and SYLVIE FLEURY, Three Monkeys, 1991

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JOHN M ARMLEDER, OLIVIER MOSSET, SYLVIE FLEURY, Three Monkeys, 1991
72,5 x 104 cm
screen print
edition of 100
signed, dated
€ 740,- plus € 18,- Track & Trace registered EU mail
inv.AMF 000-pr

In the nineties John Armleder told me the following. One day he, Olivier Mosset and Sylvie Fleury passed a shopping window in which three cuddly toy monkeys were put on display. They looked at each other and at themselves and Sylvie took a picture. Three monkeys forming the AMF clan under which name they regularly had exhibitions together. Not much later this screen print was made.

AMF is a word play of the artists surnames and a company named AMF / American Machine and Foundry that merged in 1969 with Harley Davidson Company. Its logo AMF refers also to one of the AMF artists Olivier Mosset, an enthousiastic Harley Davidson motorcyclist.

History of price:
Koller Auktionen, Zürich, Switzerland 27 June 2023 € 765,- (hammer price)
The Archive is Limited, Amsterdam July 2023 € 700,-