The creativity of Arman does not know borders. Each one of its works is the occasion to approach the daily newspaper under an innovative angle and incites us to reflect on the gasoline-even of art. The series Nec mergitur (it will not run), gone back to 1998, is halfway between painting and volume. Arman gives up accumulations and turns its attention on the object as an entity to immerse it in the matter. The use of dull colors expresses its incomprehension in front of the devastation of the oil slicks. Marcelin Pleynet recalls the singular and exemplary course of an artist who knew to preserve his freedom while releasing painting. Because Arman is a painter above all. Its works rest on a poetic resonance and a fertile intelligence. They testify to a meeting between the sensitivity of the creator and the great events of our century. In its discussion with Tita Reut, Arman entrusts the keys of Nec mergitur to us. Of this work, it was drawn 250 specimens numbered from 1 to 225, 15 specimens H.C., 10 specimens E.A., accompanied for chacuns by the “shipwreck by a glove”, which constitute the de luxe edition. The painter realizes whereas all the objects can replace its brushes: It is the time of the Paces of objects which it exposes in Milan in 1959, and on which J. Brisso carries out a film with a music of Pierre Scheaffer. Objects such as a ball of glass, springs of mattress, rollers etc… are impregnated pigments coloured and put moving on the fabric where they leave traces. Sometimes, it violently projects these objects on the fabric: They are then Angers of Objects, (exposure in Milan in 1960), or Angers of Arman. They fall in the form from violoncello or coffee mill, on a wood panel, like a dislocated body precipitated of the sixth stage on the paving stone of a court. But Arman wants any neither with the music nor with anybody. If it preserves the corpse and exposes it like such, it is so that its invaluable gesture is not lost. In 1959, Arman achieves its great gesture by adapting the “Dustbins”, for what they are by oneself and by putting them in bulk. It realizes also strange capacity of the Accumulation of the same object in a tank.