Arman - Vicky David Gallery

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5. AROUND THE EXHIBITION
GALERIE DES ENFANTS, LEVEL 1
L’AVENTURE DES OBJETS. UNE EXPOSITION-ATELIER AUTOUR D’ARMAN
22 SEPTEMBER 2010 TO 10 JANUARY 2011
Museum & Exhibitions ticket, free for under-18s
To accompany the “Arman” exhibition, the Centre Pompidou is staging an interactive workshop/exhibition
for children of three and upwards, inspired by his artistic universe.
With object and gesture as the guiding themes, it will bring together the artist’s innovations and the
sensual world of the child. Immersed in a “contemporary and poetical factory” created by artist-designer
Adrien Rovero, children will together explore Arman’s procedures and in doing so learn new ways of
looking at the world around them.
In Zone 1, “le Cycle de l’objet,” children are invited to locate and collect everyday objects, sorting them
by family, to effect a first transformation of the object by the visual faculty. In Zone 2, “l’Objet décrypté,”
they will discover, through hands-on manipulation, the successive states of the object under the artist’s
characteristic procedures: stamping, slicing, and assembling. In Zone 3, “l’Objet réinventé dans l’espace,”
young visitors will use objects in number to create space and construct an architecture in movement.
Space becomes filled as children explore the full and the empty.
This workshop/exhibition developed by the Centre Pompidou will travel in France and abroad from 2011
onward.
PETITE SALLE, LEVEL -1
“UN DIMANCHE, UNE ŒUVRE” TALK SERIES
A TALK ON ARMAN’S LA POUBELLE DES HALLES
BY RENAUD BOUCHET OF THE UNIVERSITÉ DE PROVENCE
SUNDAY 21 NOVEMBER, 11.30pm
¤4.50, concessions ¤3.50, free with annual pass
In late 1959, through his Accumulations and Poubelles Arman began to define his characteristically
“quantitative” language, based on the massing of objects or garbage. Recently acquired by the
Musée National d’Art Moderne, the Poubelle des Halles of 1961 is a key work in what may be called the
artist’s “historic” production, as part of the first series of Poubelles (1959-1966) made during the period
of the artist’s membership of the Nouveau Réalistes (1960-1963).
PETITE SALLE, LEVEL -1
“PAROLE AUX EXPOSITIONS” DISCUSSION SERIES
ARMAN
THURSDAY 2 DECEMBER, 7 PM
Admission free subject to availability
A discussion with Jean-Michel Bouhours, curator of the exhibition, the art historians Renaud Bouchet
and Denys Riout, the artist Bertrand Lavier, and the art critic Barbara Rose. They will look at Arman’s
major artistic moves, the question of the object in relation to the ready-made, the role of Pierre Restany
in the emergence of the first Poubelles, the artistic friendship of Arman and Yves Klein, Arman’s career
in the United States and his public image during his lifetime and today.