Located in the courtyard "The Pathfinder" is a larger than life cast-bronze statue by artist John Robinson. Robinson's bronzes can be found in many sites across the globe, including a bust of Queen Elizabeth II found in Buckingham Palace, England. "The Pathfinder" is perfectly balanced on the angle of one foot without support!
John Robinson
"The Pathfinder"
Arman, "Lucky," 1982. Cast
bronze.
This is designed with hundreds of cast bronze drills, as it would have been too expensive to use the real ones. These castings were made from three-point oil rig drills. This sculpture symbolizes the first major contracts and protocol agreements between the Academy and several Middle Eastern countries. These contracts were instrumental in the establishment of the institution financially.
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Arman: Born Armand Fernandez in 1928, Armand began studying art in his hometown of Nice, France in 1946 at the Ecole Nationale d'Art Decoratif, while also earning degrees in mathematics and philosophy. Completing his studies in 1949, he left Nice to study oriental art and archeology at the Ecole du Louvre. His early works were abstract and Surrealist in style. Impressed by Kurt Schwitters at an art exhibition in 1954, he began working with stamp imprints, known as cachets. More on Arman |
