Sylvie Fleury
Sylvie Fleury ( * June 24, 1961 in Geneva) is a Swiss performance developed and object artist, the space-filling installations.
Life and work
Fleury visited 1981, the Germain School of Photography in New York and was for a day assistant to Richard Avedon. After a stay in India where she learned Bharatanatyam dance, she returned to Geneva and worked for the Red Cross organization. Your apartment converted them into a dentist cabinet, as it was able to acquire a practice facility priced. Under the pseudonym of Silda Brown, they began to collect items 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 moved with Armleder, Villa Magica, a big old town house on the outskirts of Geneva, which she now lived alone and where they housed the objects of their obsessive collecting. Also in 1990, she started her own artistic work that they exhibited in the Galerie Rivolta in Lausanne, along with monochrome works of Armleder and Olivier Mosset in the same year. She presented ten bulging shopping bags with their original packaging luxury items, which it had acquired in an afternoon shopping spree. Since then she has been in her productions with the modern consumer world, the fashion, the luxury goods and the glamor. In 1992 and 1993 she received the Swiss art award.
In 2004, Fleury with Armleder and his son Stephane Armleder ( b. 1977 ), the Geneva record label Villa Magica Records. The label brought, among others, CDs and LPs by John Armleder and Sylvie Fleury, of Rockenschaub and John B. Rambo out ( an alias of Stephane Armleder ).