Arman - Vicky David Gallery

21 July 2010
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Arman : « Pompei’s Syndrome », 1984
© Photo : David Reynolds
© Adagp, Paris 2010
PRESS RELEASE
ARMAN
22 SEPTEMBER 2010-10 JANUARY 2011
GALERIE 2, LEVEL 6
The Centre Pompidou is to stage a retrospective devoted to Arman, one of the major
figures of post-War art. The exhibition will bring together almost 120 works from
leading museums and private collections to offer a new and distinctive take on
Arman’s work, from the second half of the 1950s to the last years of the 20 th century.
A founder member of the Nouveaux Réalistes, a group that championed “new perceptual
approaches to the real,” Arman developed a body of work intimately related to its own
age, taking as its artistic material the manufactured products of the consumer society.
In a presentation both lively and educational, the exhibition will highlight the two
fundamental features of Arman’s work: the gesture, inherited from the practice of
the martial arts, (through an exceptional selection of filmed records of the artist’s
actions), and the object as vector of new artistic forms. The presentation is organised
around seven themes that reflect Arman’s major artistic problematics, testifying
to the originality and the evident contemporary relevance of his work.