Arman

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Arman
Nouveau Réalisme, ZERO

Arman (November 17, 1928 – October 22, 2005) was a French-born American artist.

Nice, France
, Arman was a painter who moved from using objects for the ink or paint traces they leave (cachets, allures d'objet) to using them as the artworks themselves. He is best known for his Accumulations and destruction/recomposition of objects.

Early life and education

Arman's father, Antonio Fernandez, an antiques dealer from

hitch-hiking tour around Europe.[2]

Completing his studies in 1949, Arman enrolled as a student at the

Indo-China War.[2]

Early career

Avalanch (1990), Tel Aviv University campus
Music Power No. 2 (1986), Israel Conservatory of Music, Tel Aviv

Early on, it was apparent that Arman's concept of the accumulation of vast quantities of similar objects was to remain a significant component of his art.[3] He had originally focused more attention on his abstract paintings, considering them to be of more consequence than his early accumulations of rubber stamps. In 1962, he began welding together Accumulations of similar kinds of metal objects, such as watches or axes.[1]

Inspiration and name change

Inspired by an exhibition for the German Dadaist Kurt Schwitters in 1954, Arman began working on Cachets, his first major artistic undertaking.[2] At his third solo exhibition held in Paris's Galerie Iris Clert in 1958, Arman showed some of his first 2D accumulations he called Cachets. These rubber stamp marks on paper and fabric proved a success and provided a change of course in his career.[2]

At the time, he was signing only with his first name as an homage to

Van Gogh, who also signed his works with his first name, "Vincent". In 1957, Arman chose to change his name from "Armand" to "Arman". On January 31, 1973, upon becoming a citizen of the United States, he took the American civil name, "Armand Pierre Arman", but continued to use "Arman" as his public persona.[2]

Evolution of work

From 1959 to 1962, Arman developed his most recognizable style, beginning with his two most renowned concepts: Accumulations and Poubelles (French for "trash bins"). Accumulations were collections of commonplace and similar objects which he arranged within transparent

Plexiglas cases. His first welded Accumulations were created in 1962.[2][1]

The Poubelles were collections of strewn refuse. In 1960, he filled the Iris Clert Gallery in Paris with trash, creating Le Plein (The Full) as a counterpoint to an exhibition called Le Vide (The Void) at the same gallery two years earlier by his friend Yves Klein.[3]

In October 1960, Arman,

Christo, the group of young artists defined themselves as bearing in common their "new perspective approaches of reality". They were reassessing the concept of art and the artist for a 20th-century consumer society by reasserting humanistic ideals in the face of industrial expansion. Arman also became affiliated with the ZERO art movement based in Germany.[2]

In 1961, Arman made his debut in the United States, the country which was to become his second home. During this period, he explored creation via destruction. The Coupes (Cuts) and the Colères (Angers) featured sliced, burned, or smashed objects arranged on canvas, often using objects with a strong "identity" such as musical instruments (mainly violins and saxophones) or bronze statues.[3]

Arman and Warhol

Eros, Inside Eros (1986) in the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
The grave of Arman, Pere Lachaise Cemetery, Paris
El mensajero, Santiago, Chile

Arman can be seen in

16mm black-and-white reel. Warhol owned two of Arman's Poubelles and another accumulation called Amphetamines, which were sold at Sotheby's auction of the Andy Warhol Collection in May 1988.[2]

Move to New York City

Fascinated with the scene in

TriBeCa, Arman began work on large public sculptures.[2]

There were varied expressions of the Accumulations, including tools, watches, clocks, furniture, automobile parts, jewelry, and musical instruments in various stages of dismemberment. Musical instruments, specifically the strings

Normandy, France, became a major theme in Arman's work.[2]

Of Arman's Accumulations, one of the largest is Long Term Parking,[5][6] which is on permanent display at the Château de Montcel in Jouy-en-Josas, France. Completed in 1982, this 60-foot (18 m) high sculpture consists of 60 mostly French cars set in 40,000 pounds (18,000 kg) of concrete. Just as ambitious was his 1995 work Hope for Peace,[7] which was specially commissioned by the Lebanese government to commemorate 50 years of their military's service. Standing in once war-torn Beirut, the 32-metre (105 ft) monument consists of 83 tanks and military vehicles.[2]

Personal life

In 1953, Arman married electronic music composer

Eliane Radigue and had two daughters, Marion (1951) and Anne (1953) and one son, Yves Arman
(1954–1989). In 1971, he married Corice Canton, with whom he had one daughter, Yasmine (1982) and one son, Philippe (1987). In 1989, he had his sixth and last child, Yves Cesar Arman, son of Carrole Cesar.

After Arman's death in New York in 2005, some of his ashes were buried at the Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris in 2008.[8]

Selected exhibitions and awards

Music accumulation (1971), concrete and iron structure, Parco Sempione, Milan.[9] Photo by Paolo Monti.

[2]

Arman - Speaking Portraits

1960s

1964

  • Arman, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Holland
  • Arman, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota

1965

  • Arman, Museum Hans Lange, Krefeld, Germany

1966

  • Arman, Palais de Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium
  • Arman, Musée de la Ville, Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France

1967

  • Arman, Palazzo Grassi, Venice, Italy

1969

  • Arman: Accummulations Renault (traveling exhibition):
    • Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Holland
    • Musée des Arts Decoratifs, Paris, France
    • Louisiana Museum of Modern Art
    • Humlebaek, Denmark
    • Kunsthalle, Berlin, Germany
    • Städtische Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf, Germany
    • Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
    • Städtische Kunstammlungen, Ludwigshafen, Germany
    • Kunsthaus, Zürich, Switzerland
    • Amos Anderson Taidemuseo, Helsinki, Helsingfors, Finland

1970s

1970

  • Arman, Modern Art Museum, Stockholm, Sweden

1973

Arman, Selected Activities. John Gibson Gallery, New York

1974

  • Arman, Salles romanes du Cloître Saint-Trophime, Musée Réattu, Arles, France
  • Arman: Selected Works 1958-1974, La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, California; *Fort Worth Art Museum, Texas

1975

  • Arman: Objets Armés 1971-1974, Paris, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, France

1976

  • Arman, Artcurial auction house, Paris, France

1977

  • Arman: Paintings and Sculptures, Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University, Kansas

1978

  • Arman, Veranneman Foundation, Kruishoutem, Belgium

1979

  • Arman: Rétrospective, Centre d'Art et de Culture, Flaine, France

1980s

1980

  • Arman, Veranneman Foundation, Kruishoutem, Belgium

1981

  • Arman, Hessisches Landesmuseum, Darmstadt, Germany

1982

  • Arman: Parade der Objekte: Retrospektive 1955-1982 (traveling exhibition):
    • Kunstmuseum, Sammlung Sprengel, Hanover, Germany
    • Hessisches Landesmuseum, Darmstadt, Germany
    • Tel Aviv Museum, Israel
    • Kunsthalle, Tübingen, Germany
    • Musée Picasso, Château Grimaldi, Antibes, France
    • Musée d'Art Contemporain Dunkerque, France

1984

  • Arman o L’Oggetto come Alfabeto: Retrospettiva 1955-1984, Museo Civico delle Belle Arti, Lugano, Switzerland
  • Arman, Museo d'Arte Moderna, Parma, Italy

1985

  • Arman, Seibu Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan; Walker Hill Art Center, Seoul, Korea
  • Arman Aujourd’hui, Musée de Toulon, France

1986

  • Arman: Retrospective, Wichita State University, Ulrich Museum of Art, Kansas
  • Arman, Veranneman Foundation, Kruishoutem, Belgium

1990s

1991

  • Arman in Italy, Fondazione Mudima, Milan, Italy
  • Arman Sculpture, Contemporary Sculpture Center, Tokyo, Japan
  • Arman: A Retrospective 1955 - 1991, The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York; The Detroit Institute of Art, Detroit, Michigan

1992

  • Il Giro di Arman, Associazione Culturale Italo-Francese, Bologna, Italy

1994

  • Le Ceramica di Arman, Museo Internazionale delle Ceramiche in Faenza, Faenze, Italy

1995

  • Arman, Musée Royal de Mariemont, Mariemont-Chapelle, Belgium

1996

  • Arman: The Exhibition of International Sculpture Master, Modern Art Gallery, Taichung, Taïwan

1998

  • Arman, Musée du Jeu de Paume, Paris, France

1999

  • Arman, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel
  • Arman, Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand, São Paulo, Brazil
  • Arman: Fragmentation--Concerto for 4 Pianos, John Gibson Gallery, New York

21st Century

2000

  • Arman—20 stations de l'objet, Couvent des Cordeliers, Paris, France
  • Arman, Fundaciò "la Caixa," Barcelona, Spain
  • Arman, la traversée des objets, Palazzo delle Zitelle, Venice, Italy
  • Arman, Museo de Monterrey, Mexico
  • Arman, National Museum of History, Taipei, Taiwan

2000-01

  • Arman: Werke auf Papier, Ludwig Museum, Coblenz, Germany

2001-02

  • Arman: Through and Across Objects, Boca Raton Museum of Art, Florida

2002

  • Arman: Works on Paper, Villa Haiss Museum, Zell, Germany

2003

  • Awarded 2003 Sport Artist of the Year, The American Sport Art Museum and Archives, United States Sports Academy, Daphne, Alabama
  • Arman: Arman, Museum of Contemporary Art of Teheran, Teheran, Iran
  • Arman, Marlborough New York City

2004

  • Omaggio ad Arman Arte Silva, Sergno
  • Arman—Peinture, Marlborough Monaco, Monaco

2005

  • Hommage a Arman, Galerie Anne Lettree, Paris

2006

  • Arman—Subida al Cielo, Musée d' Art Moderne et d'Art Contemporain Nice, France
  • Arman—A Tribute to Arman, Marlborough Gallery, New York
  • Arman—No Comment, Galerie Georges-Phillippe & Nathalie Vallois, Paris

2008

  • Arman, Palazzo Bricherasio, Turin

2010-2011

  • Arman, a retrospective, Centre Georges Pompidou, Oct. 2010, Paris
  • Arman, retrospective, Museum Tinguely, Feb. 2011, Basel, Switzerland
  • Arman-in les Baux de Provence, July-Oct. 2011, Les Baux-de-Provence

2013

  • Cycles, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York

Public collections in the United States (selected)

  • Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, California
  • Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC[10]
  • Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita, Kansas
  • Harvard Art Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts
  • The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Michigan
  • Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
  • Laumeier Sculpture Park, St. Louis, Missouri
  • Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri
  • Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri
  • Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York
  • The Museum of Modern Art, New York
  • Allen Art Museum, Oberlin College, Ohio
  • Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, Washington
  • Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, Florida

Selected press

Bibliography

  • Chalumeau, Jean-Luc and Pierre Restany (preface), Arman: Shooting Colors, Paris, France: Éditions de la Différence, Autre Musée/Grandes Monographies, 1989
    ISBN 978-2729104672
  • Kuspit, Donald. Monochrome Accumulations 1986—1989. Stockholm: A. H. Graphik, 1990
    ISBN 9789179709518
  • Otmezguine, Jane and Marc Moreau, in collaboration with Corice Arman. Estampes. Paris: Éditions Marval, 1990
  • Durand-Ruel, Denyse. Arman - Vol. II: 1960 à 1962. Paris: Éditions de la Différence, 1991
  • Durand-Ruel, Denyse. Arman - Vol. III: 1963 à 1965. Paris: Éditions de la Différence, 1994
  • Bouhours, Jean-Michel (director), Arman exhibition catalogue, Paris: Centre Georges Pompidou, 2010

References

  1. ^ a b c "Arman biography". rogallery.com. April 17, 2002. Archived from the original on January 1, 2003.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p "Arman chronology". arman-studio.com. 2011.
  3. ^ a b c d Oxford Dictionary of Modern and Contemporary Art. Oxford University. pp. 30–31.
  4. ^ Example of a violin sculpture by Arman in the Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York Archived December 18, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
  5. ^ "Image of Long Term Parking". Archived from the original on 2014-04-21. Retrieved 2014-04-20.
  6. ^ Detail of Long Term Parking
  7. ^ Image of Hope for Peace
  8. ^ [1] Arman's Tomb in Père-Lachaise (division 11)
  9. ISBN 978-88-541-8612-5
    .
  10. ^ Images of artwork by Arman in the Hirshhorn Museum collection, Smithsonian Institution Archived March 3, 2009, at the Wayback Machine

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