The Future is always now
Galerie Perrotin, Ile-de-France, Paris, 06/12/2014 - 07/26/2014
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"The Future is Always Now" is the ninth solo exhibition by New York
artist Daniel Arsham at Galerie Perrotin, presenting a new body of
approximately twenty artworks around the theme of music.
For this exhibition, Daniel Arsham features a series of new casts
based around the world of music presenting eroded sculptures, such
as guitars, turntables, a microphone, boomboxes, a walkman and
keyboards. These instruments, damaged by the passage of time, are
like an archeology of the present. These sculptures are casted in
mineral materials related to geology such as rose quartz, glacial rock,
obsidian, steel or volcanic ash, resembling fossilized items, found in
a futuristic archeological dig. The solo show also includes gouaches
on mylar representing disused items exposed to the effect of time, a
cassette and eroded CD. A stage with instruments also reconstitutes
elements of a performance and four casted tires on the walls evoke a
music tour as if a rock band deserted in the main room of the gallery.
These eroded sculptures, future relics, generate a confusion in the
audience’s mind by challenging modern assumptions about linear
time and history.
Featured above: Views of the exhibition Daniel Arsham “The Future is Always Now”, Galerie Perrotin, Paris, June 12 - July 26, 2014.
Photos: Claire Dorn. Courtesy Galerie Perrotin
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"The Future is Always Now" is the ninth solo exhibition by New York
artist Daniel Arsham at Galerie Perrotin, presenting a new body of
approximately twenty artworks around the theme of music.
For this exhibition, Daniel Arsham features a series of new casts
based around the world of music presenting eroded sculptures, such
as guitars, turntables, a microphone, boomboxes, a walkman and
keyboards. These instruments, damaged by the passage of time, are
like an archeology of the present. These sculptures are casted in
mineral materials related to geology such as rose quartz, glacial rock,
obsidian, steel or volcanic ash, resembling fossilized items, found in
a futuristic archeological dig. The solo show also includes gouaches
on mylar representing disused items exposed to the effect of time, a
cassette and eroded CD. A stage with instruments also reconstitutes
elements of a performance and four casted tires on the walls evoke a
music tour as if a rock band deserted in the main room of the gallery.
These eroded sculptures, future relics, generate a confusion in the
audience’s mind by challenging modern assumptions about linear
time and history.
Featured above: Views of the exhibition Daniel Arsham “The Future is Always Now”, Galerie Perrotin, Paris, June 12 - July 26, 2014.
Photos: Claire Dorn. Courtesy Galerie Perrotin
For More Information