Cavalleria Eroica is an assemblage of welded bronze horses. In the 1960s, Arman created his famous “Accumulations”, conglomerations of multiple iterations of the same object. The technique serves to alter the way the object is perceived. This iteration of horses forms a cavalcade that rises h...
Cavalleria Eroica is an assemblage of welded bronze horses. In the 1960s, Arman created his famous “Accumulations”, conglomerations of multiple iterations of the same object. The technique serves to alter the way the object is perceived. This iteration of horses forms a cavalcade that rises high into the air. In 1987, Arman’s work was very prominent in Monaco. He took part in the collective exhibition “Monte-Carlo Sculpture”, organised by the Marisa del Re Gallery in New York and Société des Bains de Mer. The same year, he produced Hermès, Motophant, and Cavalleria Eroica.
Arman (Armand Fernandez), born in 1928 in Nice, was a French artist: a painter, sculptor and plastic artist. He studied at the École des Arts Décoratifs in Nice and then at the École du Louvre in Paris. Linked to Yves Klein from 1946 onwards, in 1960 Arman helped to found Pierre Restany’s Nouveau Réalisme (New Realism) group, known as the Nice School. Arman, who signed his works with his first name as a tribute to Van Gogh, decided to abandon the “d” in “Armand” and officially adopted his artist’s signature at an exhibition at Iris Clert in 1958. In response to Yves Klein’s Void, his approach is the starting point for the “Accumulations” and “Angers” which remain the two strands of his appropriation of the object. He participated in many exhibitions in France and abroad. From 1961 onwards, Arman lived and worked in New York, often visiting Nice and Vence. He exhibited regularly in Monaco. Throughout his life, Arman was also an enthusiastic collector of everyday objects (watches, weapons, pens, etc.) and works of art, particularly traditional African art, a field in which he was a highly valued and renowned expert. He died in 2005 in New York.
