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Jean MIOTTE

ARMAN (1928 – 2005)
The Destroyer-Creator
“I’ve always loved object graveyards.”

Arman doesn't paint; he gathers, glues, seals, aligns, and stacks everyday objects, transforming them into powerful and fascinating works of art. Watches, musical instruments, strollers, tents, telephones...
His thing is to reveal the beauty of excess. It's a reflection of consumer society. He leaves a body of work deeply marked by irony, violence, and the beauty of the object in the world that gives us something to see and think about.
Arman is not only a creator but also a philosopher of objects, a passionate collector, and a man of the world influenced by the place of history and industrial society. His work explores our experiences of time, memory, and accumulation.

Arman is the boss of recycling/pop with his accumulations!
They are like frozen stories of our habits, mixing art and consumer society, speaking of their lives with poetry, irony and radicalism.
His monumental works enliven modern installations and immortalize museums.
He is a fabulist of contemporary memory. He transforms the banal into the sacred. He makes us think about what we throw away, what we keep, what we forget.

Because Arman is one of the most innovative artists of the 20th century.
He creates art from chaos; he has blown up pianos, violins, cars and spaces.
Because he was a friend of Klein, Tinguely, a member of the New Realists movement alongside César and Niki de Saint Phalle, he was one of the first to bring art into the realm of everyday life.
Because he is an internationally recognized artist, famous for his monumental sculptures in public spaces, present in the greatest museums.