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    PIERRE FERNANDEZ ARMAN (1928-2005)

    Athena, Como Una Espada

    1986

    Bronze, EA 3/3
    157x50x35cm

    Signed Arman boequel in English, numbered Fd. EA 3/3

    Estimate TWD 3,600,000-5,000,000
    USD 120,000-166,700
    HKD 0-0

    Hammer Price TWD 0
    USD 0
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Arman, born in Nice, France, is one of the few artists being written into western art history during his lifetime. His artworks emphasize on a new feeling and approach towards reality and objects. He is the founder and representative artist of the French Nouveau Realisme. During the mid-1900s while abstract art is the mainstream in the European art world, Arman began creating concrete objects after visiting the exhibition of the Dadaism artist Kurt SCHWITTERS. Through dissecting and accumulation, the artist will be able to give a new form and meaning to the once familiar consumerism objects and preserve them in different ways. The artist can also discover the objects’ potential use. The former French president Jacques Rene Chirac honored him as a diligent creator and has a prominent influence on contemporary art. 

During the mid-1980s, Arman became to dissect green copper made statues of Greek deities. He dissected Hercules diagonally to create a sense of extending the God’s great strength. He also combined the dissected statue with green copper instruments and giving a new interpretation and life to the solemn deities’ statues. “Athena, Como Una Espada” created during this time is presented in a modern linear dissect approach , and re-attached to present the heroine image of the war goddess Athena. The posture is elegant and awe-inspiring. The old and new must layer to present Arman’s unique language. Self-pronounced witness of culture, Arman’s core concept is “self-examination of the thought process”. The artworks become the testimony of history. French famous art critic praised Arman’s artworks became the eye-opener for viewers to appreciate a natural approach towards modernism. 

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