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ARMAN
(b Nice, 17 Nov 1928). American sculptor and collector of French birth. He lived in Nice until 1949, studying there at the Ecole des Arts Décoratifs from 1946 and in 1947 striking up a friendship with Yves Klein, with whom he was later closely associated in the NOUVEAU RÉALISME movement. In 1949 he moved to Paris, where he studied at the Ecole du Louvre and where in an exhibition in 1954 he discovered the work of Kurt Schwitters, which led him to reject the lyrical abstraction of the period. In 1955 Arman began producing Stamps, using ink-pads in a determined critique of Art informel and Abstract Expressionism to suggest a depersonalized and mechanical version of all-over paintings. In his next series, the Gait of Objects, which he initiated in 1958, he took further his rejection of the subjectivity of the personal touch by throwing inked objects against the canvas.
Some of his main exhibitions :
1968 : Accumulations Renault, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
1970 : Modern Art Museum, Stockholm, Sweden
1976 : Biennale, Venise, Italy
1977 : Paintings and Sculptures, Ulrich Museum of Art, Kansas, USA
1982 : Parade der objecte-Retrospective 1955 bis 1982, Kunstmuseum, Hanovre ; Tel-Aviv Museum, Israel
1985 : Seibu Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan
1986 : Fuji Television Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1988 : Object in Twentieth-century Art, Guggenheim Museum, New-York
1991 : Arman A Retrospective, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
1998 : Arman, Musée du jeu de Paume, Paris
2001 : Pop Art, Georges Pompidou Center, Paris
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