ARMAN | La vie dans la ville pour l'oeil

signed and dated 66paint tubes inclusion in polyester boxExecuted in 1966. This work is registered in the Arman Studio Archives New York sunder number APA# 8013.65.001.This work is registered in the archives of Denyse Durand-Ruel under number 1446 and is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity signed by the artist.

Acquired from the artist by the present owners

Valdagno; Baden-Baden; Copenhaguen; Amsterdam; London; Paris, Prix Marzotto, 1966
Flaine, La Parade des Objets, 1980
Hannover, Kunstmuseum; Darmstadt, Hessisches Landesmuseum; Tel Aviv, The Tel Aviv Museum; Antibes, Musée Picasso; Dunkerque, Musée d'Art Contemporain, Arman, Parade der Objekte, Retrospektive 1955-1982, 1982-1984; catalogue, p. 90, no. 46, illustrated 
Lugano, Museo civico di belle arti, Villa Ciani, Arman, 29 June - 16 September 1984
Vence, Château Notre-Dame des Fleurs, Galerie Beaubourg, Les Nouveaux Réalistes, 1997
Paris, Centre Pompidou, Arman, 22 September 2010–10 January 2011; catalogue, illustrated  

Otto Hahn, Arman, Ateliers d'Aujourd'hui, 1972, p.30, illustrated
Pierre Cabane, Arman, Paris, 1993, p. 85, illustrated

There are faint scratches to the surface of the metallic background and in the resin. The work is slightly dirty. This work is in very good original condition.
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The meaning of my work is multiple. It depends on the objects I use, on the way I use them and on the meaning it takes in the general context of Modern Art. I am convinced that men over the last 30,000 years, the ones scientists call homo sapiens, were in fact homo artisticus. There is a great difference between a toolmaker, the homo faber, and a man who reflects upon his relationship to the environment, a man of crafts, and not of knowledge. Artistic processes are verbal before being visual. The goal of any artistic creation, from poetry to painting and sculpture, is to systematize an idea in advance, like a computer of sort. A community that developed several art forms has better chances of survival than one that has not. This is why, as artists, we should not be embarrassed in front of the society: we made it real. Without us, it would not be real. Arman