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The following year he went to New York for the first time, where he held a solo show at the Cordier-Warren Gallery and participated in the exhibition “The Art of Assemblage” at the Museum of Modern Art. In the 1960s he continued his artistic research by making Coupes, cut or sawn objects; Colères, broken or damaged objects; Combustions, objects subjected to burning; and Inclusions, accumulations of objects immersed in transparent polyester resin. He has since exhibited at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam in 1964 and at the Venice Biennale in 1968. In the 1970s he made accumulations using concrete or pieces of cars supplied by the car manufacturer Renault. In the two decades that followed he worked with different techniques and materials, producing major public commissions such as the bronze monument A la République (1984), at the Palais de l’Elysée in Paris, or the monumental Espoir de Paix (1995) in Beirut, an accumulation of tanks and concrete. In the late 1990s Arman radicalized his artistic research and in parallel made large-format etchings and drawings, also collaborating with poets and writers. Numerous exhibitions were devoted to his work until his death, which occurred in New York on October 22, 2005.