Arman, portrait d'un sculpteur

A French artist, born in Nice in 1928, Arman lives between New York, the South of France and Paris. In 1960 he co-signed the declaration that established the movement of the New Realists, set up around the critic Pierre Restany, at the home of Yves Klein in Paris. "New Realism = new perspective approaches to reality." Moving away from the traditional means used in art, he adopted a new attitude in the face of the obsessive presence of the signs of our times, the massive production of consumer goods. He took his place in a movement that runs through the whole of the second half of our century : the refusal of identified objets d’art, the refusal of pictures, the refusal of sculptures. Through a series of plastic gestures – "tablets", "object appearances", "dust-bins", "cups", "combustions", "angers" –, Arman produces series of works that introduce real objects directly into the artistic field.