Daniel Arsham's new exhibition presents six new pieces as part of a “fictional archaeological project” that treat known and recognisable symbols as ancient monuments ❤️
“It will be very confusing to archaeologists in thousands of years,” says Daniel Arsham, standing in clean October sunlight in the formal gardens at Yorkshire Sculpture Park. “It’s a blending of time, mixture of materials.”– six new pieces that will live at YSP for the next year and which make up not only his first UK museum display but also his first exhibition of exclusively outdoor pieces.
The sculptures are, according to Arsham, part of a “fictional archaeological project” and include replicas of classical works from antiquity, depictions of iconic moments in history and of instantly-recognisable pop culture motifs.There’s classical goddesses but there’s also the bike from ET, Neil Armstrong and Bugs Bunny, all rendered in bronze. They are all alike, all completely different: what appears at first random are revealed to be uniform and deliberate.
He was given access to foundry moulds from some of the most famous classical sculptures in the Louvre including the head of a female figure known as Melpomene – the Greek muse of tragedy – which was originally carved around 50 BCE. Arsham createdMelpomene from the same mould but on a different scale, with his own alterations explaining how even what we think of as original pieces rarely are. “[Older sculptures] are not ancient monuments,” he says. “They are doctored and manipulated over time.
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