The work of the French painter Arman will be introduced to students from 5 to 12 years, through the "Adventure of Transformation" at the Concert Hall

We all have access to creation. We have it in us. And you and me, Armand was saying, the great French painter, founding member of the New Realists group, made famous by his series of works "Trash", where he used waste, displayed in a glass box, and "Accumulations", with similar items placed in a polyester box or device, plexiglass etc.

This creator who changed our perception of "trash" and gave the French answer to pop art in the decade 1960, they are invited to meet the children, aged from 5 to 12 years, and to "imitate" the ways of his artistic expression.

This is the visual children's workshop around Armand's work at the Athens Concert Hall, which constitutes the seventh consecutive collaboration of Megaron Plus with the Center Pompidou in Paris, after the workshops around the work of Matisse, Picasso, Brancusi, Calder et al.

"The Adventure of Transformation. Everyday objects: Look at them another way!» is the title of the workshop, with Odile Fayet in charge, from tomorrow until 18 Of March, in which children will experiment with the idea of ​​"transforming objects", as the neorealist Armand did, who was born in Nicaea on 1928 and died in New York on 2005.

There are three stages to the process: "The object's life cycle", where the child collects the objects and categorizes them, in the spirit of Arman who said that "the principle of accumulation changes our perspective on things".

In the second stage, "Object is being decrypted", the child discovers the ways in which the artist worked with the object. The third stage is about "inventing the object", where little aspiring artists assemble small colored boxes to build towers, mazes and walls, a large scale architecture.

Participation in the workshop, either for schools or individual children, it will be done in groups 30 persons. The program, with specially trained personnel, lasts an hour and a half. Information at 210-7282333

Source : ethnos.gr