Sylvie Fleury

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Sylvie Fleury (born June 24, 1961 in Geneva ) is a Swiss performance and object artist who develops room-filling installations .

life and work

Fleury attended the Germain School of Photography in New York in 1981 and was Richard Avedon's assistant for a day . After a stay in India where she learned the Bharatanatyam dance, she returned to Geneva and worked for the organization of the Red Cross . She converted her apartment into a dentist's office because she was able to purchase a practice facility cheaply. Under the pseudonym Silda von Braun , she began collecting objects that were marked with a Red Cross. In 1990 she met the Geneva artist John Armleder and became his assistant.

In the same year, she and Armleder moved into the Villa Magica , a large, old town house on the outskirts of Geneva, which she now lives alone and in which she housed the objects of her obsessive passion for collecting. Also in 1990 she began her own artistic work, which she exhibited in the Rivolta gallery in Lausanne that same year , together with monochrome works by Armleder and Olivier Mosset . She presented ten bulging shopping bags with luxury items in their original packaging that she had acquired during an afternoon shopping trip. Since then she has dealt with the modern world of goods, fashion, luxury items and glamor in her productions. In 1992 and 1993 she received the Federal Art Scholarship .

In 2004 Fleury founded the Geneva record label Villa Magica Records with Armleder and his son Stéphane Armleder (* 1977) . The label released CDs and LPs by John Armleder and Sylvie Fleury, Gerwald Rockenschaub and John B. Rambo (an alias of Stéphane Armleder), among others .

For 2015 the artist was nominated for the Geneva Prix ​​de la Société des Arts , which is endowed with 50,000 Swiss francs.

In 2018 Sylvie Fleury was awarded the Prix ​​Meret Oppenheim .

Exhibitions

literature

  • Sylvie Fleury - The Art of Survival. New Gallery Graz , Graz 1993.
  • Sylvie Fleury: Sylvie Fleury. Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern-Ruit 1999, ISBN 978-3-89322-973-4 .
  • Götz Adriani (Ed.): Sylvie Fleury - 49000. Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern-Ruit, 2001.
  • Center of Attraction. 8th Baltic Triennial. Vol. 1, Revolver, Frankfurt am Main 2003, ISBN 978-3-936919-87-5 .
  • Elke Kania u. a .: The sublime is Now! The sublime in contemporary art. Museum Franz Gertsch, Burgdorf / Switzerland 2006.
  • Sylvie Fleury. CAC Málaga, Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Málaga. Málaga 2011, ISBN 978-84-96159-95-2 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "Silda" is part of the European Ariane rocket , "von Braun" are names from the film Alphaville by director Jean-Luc Godard
  2. ↑ Die Zeit (accessed November 12, 2008)
  3. ↑ Françoise Nyffenegger-Ninghetto: Fleury, Sylvie. In: Sikart , accessed November 12, 2008
  4. ↑ www.discogs.com
  5. ↑ Information on the website of Fleurys Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac. Retrieved November 4, 2014 .
  6. ^ Prix ​​Meret Oppenheim 2018. In: www.bak.admin.ch. Federal Office of Culture , accessed on November 1, 2019 .
  7. ↑ CAC Málaga
personal data
SURNAME Fleury, Sylvie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss installation artist
DATE OF BIRTH June 24, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Geneva