Collection: Arman

(Nice 1928 - New York 2005)

“A painter who makes sculpture,” as he liked to define himself, Arman (pseudonym of Armand Pierre Fernandez), is among the most influential figures in the history of art of the late 20th century. Among the signatories of the Nouveau Réalisme manifesto in 1960, alongside Yves Klein and theorist Pierre Restany, he radically redefined the relationship between the artwork and the everyday, exploring and incorporating into his works the most diverse consumer objects: shoes, coins, watches, brushes, tubes of paint, and even waste, investigating and simultaneously representing the customs of society. Having moved to the United States in 1961, Arman achieved international stature confirmed by his presence in the collections of the Centre Pompidou, the Metropolitan Museum of New York, and the Tate.
In the gallery, we present his original screen prints that mainly depict the iconic musical instruments, a symbol for the artist of memory and transformation: accumulating them, disassembling them, reproducing them in series means saying something about memory, about repetition, about the fact that every everyday object carries within it a story that art can liberate.