Arman

Arman Fernandez, known as Arman, French-American artist born in Nice in 1928, died in New York in 2005. A key figure on the contemporary French art scene and founding member of the Nouveau Réalisme movement, Arman uses the object as the basis for a renewed aesthetic. Famous for his "accumulations" that pile up various manufactured and trivial objects, his work questions consumer society and makes everyday life the infinite reservoir of his compositions. Like an archaeologist, Arman collects and preserves all manner of fetish objects that paint a portrait of our contemporary society. His works can be found in the collections of the greatest museums of modern and contemporary art, including the Centre Pompidou and MoMA.