THE NORTH RIDING PROJECT

Between 1948 and 1952, three friends used to chat on the beach at Nice.  One day, they decided to divide up the world: Claude Pascal would inherit all that was natural but inert, Yves Klein all that was organic and Armand Fernandez everything that was manufactured. With “Full Up”, Armand Fernandez, now Arman, created the conditions for a universe containing objects alone: he excluded nature and humankind, reducing the latter to mere spectators.

Deborah Laks, “Arman’s ‘Le Plein” (Full Up): The Key is on the Inside” in Copeland/Anti-Museum