Garbage - Originally exhibited at Galerie Iris Clert, ParisĪrman was born Armand Pierre Fernandez to Marie Jacquet and Antonio Fernandez in 1928. The universal memory of art was lacking his conclusive mummification of quantification." Klein is quoted as saying, "After my own emptiness comes Arman's fullness. Although a direct response to Klein's work, Le Plein showcased Arman's interest in the Dadaist's use of found and discarded objects. When Arman's installation was completed, people could only view it through the glass windows of the gallery which had been completely filled with trash. Arman originally wanted to have the garbage deposited in the gallery by sanitation workers - an indication of his interest in chance, and his desire to distance himself as author of the work - but he ended up collecting it himself when the city refused. Originally planned to be shown immediately after Klein's installation, it took Arman two years to convince the gallery director to agree to his answer to Klein's exhibition. Klein's conceptual exhibition was also staged the Clert gallery in 1957, and consisted of an empty gallery with an empty display case. Le Plein (Full-up) which took place at Galerie Iris Clert, was inspired by Yves Klein's exhibition Le Vide (The Void). ![]() In this respect, Arman's work might be read as an important early response to environmental issues. It also points to the wreckage of human history and the threat that humanity's production of waste might eventually literally bury us. Arman's persistent use of trash was a deliberate nod to the waste that mass production generates when time passes and goods are discarded.That is, sculpture could no longer be crafted by hand, or displayed as a testimony to craft skills and imagination instead it had to respond to the characteristics of mass-produced consumer goods. Arman's fascination with it points to his belief that contemporary sculpture had to confront the commodity. Arman was important in pioneering the European return to Marcel Duchamp's idea of the readymade (and to Assemblage).In his focus on repetition, Arman's work echoes that of many American Minimalists and Pop artists of the same period. ![]() Gathering these identical objects together, he distracts us from their functional purpose and presents them instead as endlessly repeated forms - forms which seem to have a deeper meaning that, bia the processes of modernization, has been lost to us.
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