Arman

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Arman
VERY BEAUTIFUL AND MOVING WORK "VIOLIN CALCINE" BY ARMAN (1928-2005) Inclusion (burning of the wooden and resin violin soundboard) Plexiglas frame Ed. 104 / 200 41.5 x 29 x 9 cm Arman or Armand Fernandez, born November 17, 1928 in Nice and died October 22, 2005 in New York, is a Franco-American artist, painter, sculptor and visual artist, known for his "accumulations". His long artistic career began in 1956 with a first exhibition entitled " Cachets " where the artist affixed objects coated with ink to the canvas before finally conceiving the object no longer as a working material, but as the work itself. This change of direction became apparent as early as 1959, when the artist exhibited various types of waste through his " Poubelles " series. Then in 1961, at the same time as he moved into a New York loft in Soho, a neighbourhood famous for its contemporary art scene where graffiti and happenings are mixed, his first Accumulations appeared and his work reached a turning point. Stringed instruments, objects of his childhood, are first frozen without transformation in Plexiglas before the artist experiences his period of creative destruction and his material is burned, cut, multiplied and worn out. His collections of " Accumulations pures " and " Coupés ", comprising both compressed paint tubes and miniaturized and multiplied Eiffel Towers, are a significant display of this technique that he will use throughout his life.
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