David Armstrong Six, born in 1968, is an artist from Montreal, Canada. Armstrong Six's artistic career began in 1996 with the solo exhibition "Depth Sounding" in Toronto.

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  • David Armstrong Six, born in 1968, is an artist from Montreal, Canada. Armstrong Six's artistic career began in 1996 with the solo exhibition "Depth Sounding" in Toronto. Since then he has participated in numerous exhibitions, notably "Dog Leg Room" in Paris (2001); "The Cave and the Island" in Vienna (2004); "Teorias de Resistencia" in Madrid (2004); "I Wanna Be a Popstar" in Berlin (2004); "If Not for Today, Tomorrow" in New York (2005); and "Nothing is Lost, Nothing is Created, Everything is Transformed" in Montreal (2008). For his exhibition "Leak into Space" (2000), Armstrong Six composed a work of art that included sculpture, installation, performance and video. The centerpiece was "Dumpster", a rusting waste container that oozed a disgusting liquid consisting of syrup, cement, detergent and vaseline onto the gallery floor, while a video portrayed the artist spilling this liquid along city streets. Armstrong Six's work is often characterized by polluting and thus naturalizing and re-incorporating artificial constructed spaces, such as galleries (or city streets) into the (polluted) world. The theme of leakage, whether "natural" or "man-made" (ultimately the same thing), whether of the body (urine, etc. ) or of objects – also recurs in his work. He writes: "The more I absorb the world as it unfolds within and around me, the more I see time as a haphazard collection of incomplete thoughts and mercurial ambitions… I am consumed by this informal mess born out of the residue of quotidian encounter, and my work is more often than not a collection of those loose ends, like the contrail of random forces. " <Nothing is Lost, Nothing is Created, Everything is Transformed, 2008>
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  • David Armstrong Six, born in 1968, is an artist from Montreal, Canada. Armstrong Six's artistic career began in 1996 with the solo exhibition "Depth Sounding" in Toronto.
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