Artist Daniel Arsham on His New Show at Gallery Perrotin

Proposer

Proposer

Architects and artists

Not afraid of high concepts. His company

, Among other things, also designed the so-called "selfie destination"

In the mall

. Arsham himself is known for his sculptures depicting decaying or fossilized modern objects and consumer debris. for him

In "Time Dilation" at Perrotin Gallery, he made both classical statues and Pokémon undergo "signature decay".

That is a lot of space. We are no longer in that space. We also have another spongy space, which may be four to five times larger than another space. More than ten years ago

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I have upgraded to

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When Alex Mustonen and I first established the company in 2007, we were creating something more relevant to my artistic practice. In some cases, I worked as a project architect in certain exhibitions. Over time, along with Kith and other brands, it acquired its own design language. There are 15 people who continue to practice. We are working remotely through the pandemic. We have been working on projects all over the world. We now have a kitchen in Tokyo.

People's strong interest in archaeology occurred around 2009, around 2010, when I wrote this Easter Island picture book. I went there for a few weeks, drew a picture, and there was a kind of-just a very simple, curious idea, that kind of idea was shown to me, that's because the island is so far away, imagine a car or an old computer , They do not transport it off the island. It just entered a landfill on the actual island. Since then I have been thinking for a thousand years. From the perspective of an archaeologist, the distance between the discarded computer and the original Moai statue would be Getting closer, right?

I think,

This led to the creation of works around technology, so contemporary objects made of materials such as crystal and ashes were pushed to the quality of future materials. When I was invited for this exhibition at the Musée Guimet in Paris, they told me by the way that they had molds for these works, which were originally made for conservation and curatorial purposes, and some of the molds themselves It is dated. Dating back to the 19th century. Like actual molds, molds themselves are almost historical works of art. So they invited me to visit them. And because the Guimet Museum is part of this large French museum complex, the museum has all the works of the Louvre and Versailles...

And Michelangelo's

And everything you can imagine. It was a deep and strange experience there. It is huge, just like the size of a football field. Remember the end of the scene

, inside

, They put the ark in this box, and then put it in a huge warehouse with crates in a government agency...what is that, but it's all a model of art.

About 40 minutes from Paris.

But the condition is that they cannot leave France. In fact, I had to send my studio. Some of my employees went there, we worked in their actual factory, and we also conducted many tests on my materials to make sure they would not do anything to damage the mold. In fact, the new mold they use is almost the same as the way we use the same technology to make molds in the studio, so it can be resolved. And the other part is that when I went there... I saw all the works that had nothing to do with Jimmy. I asked if I could use them, but they definitely didn't. The curator of the museum took some time to coax them and showed them that using these things was out of respect, so they basically allowed me to use everything. And I went further into the archives and pulled out the things used in this exhibition.

That was what I grew up with when I was a kid, collecting cards and watching cartoons, now my kids love it. Basically, I created a sculpture with a figure from

, And then the company contacted me and asked me if I was interested in pursuing greater goals with them. So I went to their factory in Tokyo, met their original artist, and effectively came out from there to use all the IP rights in my artwork. My wife is half Japanese and half French, so in some ways it is a perfect union of the universe. But through my subtle understanding of Japanese culture through her, these characters

In a way, it is an extension of the ancient Japanese thinking about the afterlife, magic and rituals, all of which can be traced back to the past, so I think about them in a similar way to these vehicles that can go by over time, and this time The exhibition has incorporated many Pokémon characters and these Greek and Roman sculptures... [chuckles] It's like the fusion of time in the universe.

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Yes, then there is only a limited palette in other jobs, you know, I certainly never regarded it as a disability of any kind. If anything, it makes things easier because I can have more restrictions, which makes things easier to choose because I don't have too many choices.

I think these works definitely invite you to reconsider your position. Especially for crystal works, a lot of things happen in it: an obvious visual effect is to see something degenerate or look like it collapsed, but then you also understand that it is made of different materials, and The material is geological... and then you start thinking,

Therefore, its material quality almost determines the surrounding mood, appearance and appearance.