FERNANDEZ ARMAN
(Nizza 1928 - New York 2005)
Violini
oil on canvas, 130x200 cm
signed lower left
executed in 1961
The work is registered at the Fernandez Arman Archive, which has confirmed its
authenticity.
Representative of the Nouveau Réalisme, the movement born around the critic Pierre Restany who in April 1960 drafted the manifesto. Arman, in the early fifties began to create his first Cachets, abandoning the canvas, and in 1959 Allures, variants of the Cachets, consisting of imprints made on the canvas with a variety of objects previously immersed in color. In the same year he began to create his Colères, compositions of broken objects, especially musical instruments, and his Accumulations, assemblages of consumer or rejection objects. in this phase of transition and change, the objects take shape again on the canvas, still represented with a firm and unmistakable line, like the representation of these violins dated 1961. Interested, from 1961 on, to the decomposition of the subjects through the découpage and focuses his research on numerous bronzes. The artist intends to denounce society and proceeds to "destructions", destructions obtained by force, by fire: violins, pianos, saxophones and various musical instruments.