Daniel Arsham’s first solo exhibition in Berlin - “UNEARTHED”
DANIEL ARSHAM
After hearing news on an upcoming project in London, TIRADE WORLD brings attention to Arsham’s first Berlin solo exhibition, “UNEARTHED”, where he brings together two distinct but linked pieces of work that aim to create a scenario in which ancient things are contextualised in the future.
“UNEARTHED”
Arsham turns the nave of St. Agnes' ancient brutalist church into an antique hall surrounded by three painted landscapes of rocky grottos.
Being the largest paintings that the artist has made to date, they were inspired by the enormity and unusual scale of St. Agnes.
An array of hydrostone busts, arranged on pedestals within the nave, appear as if the first collection of antiquities had just been opened to the public. Such reproductions were commonly used in presentations in the past.
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Arsham’s, “UNEARTHED”, solo exhibition ends on the 24th of October, 2021.
DANIEL ARSHAM
Biography
New York based artist Daniel Arsham straddles the line between art, architecture and performance. Raised in Miami, Arsham attended the Cooper Union in New York City where he received the Gelman Trust Fellowship Award in 2003.
Architecture is a prevalent subject throughout his work; environments with eroded walls and stairs going nowhere, landscapes where nature overrides structures, and a general sense of playfulness within existing architecture.
ARSHAM’s work has been shown at PS1 in New York, The Museum of Contemporary Art in Miami, The Athens Bienniale in Athens, Greece, The New Museum in New York, Mills College Art Museum in Oakland, California and Carré d’Art de Nîmes, France among others. A first monograph of ARSHAM’s work was published by the French Centre National des arts plastiques and a second one was published by Galerie Perrotin in 2021.
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Photo courtesy by KÖNIG GALERIE
