The Little Art Window: JOHN ARMLEDER "EAGLE": Gstaad

John Armleder

EAGLE, 2024, 

mixed technique on canvas

150 x 275 x 4 cm

Provenance: from the Artist’s Studio

Eagle, a site-specific painting, made for The Little Art Window, pays tribute with its title to the artist’s father – one of the co-founders of The Eagle Club, the exclusive ski club perched atop the Wasserngrat ski slope in Gstaad. 

In his Pour Paintings, the body of work to which this painting belongs, John Armleder pours paint - often mixed with glitter and other materials - down the face of the canvas, where it accumulates in overlapping veils of colour and texture. The Pour Paintings make plain that what we see is always dependent on the randomness of the encounter between our eyes, our minds, and the changing conditions of the world. 

John Armleder (b. 1948, Geneva) is a singular figure in postwar art and one of the most representative Swiss artists of his generation. His career spans five decades and synthesizes many of the competing aesthetic developments associated with that period.