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ARMAN

[[image-photograph]] Civilization No. 2, Accumulation of garbage in polyester, 48"x36"x4, 1971. Courtesy of Marisa del Re Gallery. Photo: David Reynolds.

The artist is a magician, a master of illusion; with the material that exists s/he gives us something to see and to think about concerning our civilization. After the magician works, the material is still what it was, but in the vision of the viewer it has been changed radically. I am a witness of the adventure of the object, the common, the manufactured, the massproduced. My intervention differs with each object, and accumulation changes its quality. The cycle of the object in the 20th century is production equals accumulation, consummation equals discarded objects, and garbage, recycling and destruction equals destruction. The artist who can have an influence in his or her time is a part of all things, and works with the impulse s/he receives from others. I believe that nothing determinant can be accomplished without working together.
Adapted from an interview with Arman by Dr. L. Gans, Galerie Mathilde, Amsterdam, July 28, 1978.

ANNA BISSO

[image] Angel. Plastic, wood, mirror, metal, found objects on painted canvas. 32"x30"x5". 1977.

Anna Bisso's art is autobiographical and contains unmistakable references to New York, where she has lived all her life. It is an art that challenges preconceptions of which objects properly belong together. In her own gentle way, and usually with humor, her logic confronts our own and dares us to enjoy the world. Her constructions of seemingly disparate materials all somehow make sense - much like the unity of the incongruous mixture of people and things at any given moment in New York.
Adapted from a commentary by Jaqueline Skiles.