Armanaccumulation de Ferrari
1999
Bronze painted
Signed and numbered
130 x 145 x 30 cm

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Inquiry - accumulation de Ferrari, 1999

Armand Pierre Fernandez was born in Nice in 1928. His father introduced him to oil painting and awakened his love for music, from 1938. After obtaining a baccalaureate in philosophy in 1946, he was admitted to the National School of Decorative Arts in Nice. A year later, he will meet Yves Klein and Claude Pascal in Nice.

In 1953, influenced by Serge Poliakoff and Nicolas de Staël, he grew an interest for abstract painting, before making his first experiences with ink pads. In 1962, he bought a blowtorch and began to weld the Accumulations objects. When Klein died, Arman traveled to New York and Los Angeles where he met Andy Warhol.

Arman is one of the “New Realists” alongside César, Klein, Niki de Saint Phalle. His work is defined by the accumulation of objects, denouncing the mass consumption characteristic of this era: "man is a consumer who expresses himself through the object". Each accumulation represents in its conception, the impossibility to count the accumulated objects, as well as the dispersion of the object in a fuzzy set. In the same way as the “Accumulations” procedure, that of the “Anger” continues to be a major conceptual anchor in the work, just as much for the creation of works directly resulting from the passage to the destructive act.