Arman

Armand Pierre Fernandez (1928-2005) was a French-American sculptor best known for his bold assemblages of collected objects. A founder of the Nouveau Réalisme (New Realism) movement, he challenged the notions of art by transforming everyday items like tools and clocks into striking compositions as a critique of the modern consumer culture and societal excess.

In Cubist Composition in bronze, a violin is deconstructed and reimagined in bronze with fragments of metal reassembled. His use of bronze adds weight to the piece in contrast to the delicate lightness of a violin’s wooden construction. Arman’s works are held in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., the Tate Gallery in London, and the Musée d’Art Moderne et d’Art Contemporain in Nice.