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Lot 39
Arman (1928-2005)
Tranches de vie
Closed16 April 2013
Price Realised
EUR 47,100
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Specialist note
This work is recorded in the Arman Studio Archives under number: APA# 8305.62.023.
One of the key tenets of Arman's artistic adventure, then, is to convert an act of destruction into an act of creation. Yet while the burning, amassing, adjusting of his source objects is an intensely iconoclastic act, a rebellious and daring gesture towards his contemporaries in the art world, he was nonetheless constantly aware of the value of aesthetics and of the formal qualities and properties of his materials: he achieves his effect, instilling an epiphany in the viewer through the rearrangement of everyday items, through careful composition. And it is through this judicious process of re-composing and re-assembling his beloved objects that Arman reveals their intrinsic beauty.
One of the key tenets of Arman's artistic adventure, then, is to convert an act of destruction into an act of creation. Yet while the burning, amassing, adjusting of his source objects is an intensely iconoclastic act, a rebellious and daring gesture towards his contemporaries in the art world, he was nonetheless constantly aware of the value of aesthetics and of the formal qualities and properties of his materials: he achieves his effect, instilling an epiphany in the viewer through the rearrangement of everyday items, through careful composition. And it is through this judicious process of re-composing and re-assembling his beloved objects that Arman reveals their intrinsic beauty.