Daniel Arsham and Perrotin gallery have been sharing a common story and collaboration for 20 years. During his carreer, Arsham has come up with multiple approaches and a great variety of series that draw inspiration from his artistic practice of the past two decades.

Renowned for visually transforming cultural objects into subtly eroding artifacts, Arsham showcases the power of nostalgia by conflating past, present, and future.

He returns again and again to his oeuvre to examine and reflect on his appreciation for the complexities of materiality and space.

Especially of interest is Arsham’s latest return to painting, his early primary medium, from which he diverged with an ambitious program of sculpture, architecture, and design.

Sculpture is another key theme of the artist’s portfolio: In 2019, Arsham was given unprecedented access to the statuary molds at the Réunion des Musées Nationaux Grand Palais, including Venus de Milo, for his first Classical Antiquity sculptures.

He expanded this series with Veiled Classical Antiquity sculptures, consisting of sculpted drapes over his antiquity sculptures, and Stratified sculptures, where Arsham combines organic and inorganic materials in an alchemic process, including wood, bronze, and polished stainless steel.

Another recent seriees of interest is Split and Anatopism. Split uses Artificial Intelligence to juxtapose images of his Classical Antiquity busts alongside Anime characters, pairing two iconic forms of figuration from distinct time periods.

In his Anatopism paintings, Arsham uses the vernacular of print and digital animation to reference important moments from his own career, including Hellenic busts, drawings of eroded cars and Pikachu figures, as well as references to his collaborations with Porsche and Dior.

DANIEL ARSHAM is represented by PERROTIN GALLERY
https://www.perrotin.com/
https://www.danielarsham.com/

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