Daniel Arsham at the Orange County Museum of Art
Daniel Arsham has his first American solo museum show —titled “Wherever You Go, There You Are” and curated by Heidi Zuckerman— at the Orange County Museum of Art (OCMA) in Costa Mesa, California. Zuckerman has curated an exhibition featuring 45 artworks created by Arsham over the last two decades. The exhibition delves into the artist’s concept of fictional archaeology and showcases how Arsham utilizes sculpture, architecture, drawing, and photography to explore ideas of history, symbology, and the material nature of time. Zuckerman, the CEO, and director of OCMA, has carefully selected the artworks for the succinct show, which pays homage to the artist and his diverse range of artistic works. Read more about this exhibition through the link below.
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Daniel Arsham: Wherever You Go, There You Are
February 14, 2023 – June 4, 2023
Orange County Museum of Art (OCMA) in Costa Mesa, California
ABOUT Daniel Arsham
Born in 1980 in Cleveland Ohio, OH, USA
Lives and works in New York, NY, USA
New York based artist Daniel Arsham work explores the fields of fine art, architecture, performance, design and film. Raised in Miami, Arsham attended the Cooper Union in New York City where he received the Gelman Trust Fellowship Award in 2003.
Soon thereafter Arsham toured worldwide with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company as the company’s stage designer. The experience lead to an ongoing collaborative practice which continues as Arsham works with world renowned artists, musicians, designers, and brands.
Arsham’s uchronic aesthetics revolves around his concept of fictional archaeology. Working in sculpture, architecture, drawing and film, he creates and crystallizes ambiguous in-between spaces or situations, and further stages what he refers to as future relics of the present. Always iconic, most of the objects that he turns into stone refer to the late 20th century or millennial era, when technological obsolescence unprecedentedly accelerated along with the digital dematerialization of our world. While the present, the future and the past poetically collide in his haunted yet playful visions between romanticism and pop art, Daniel Arsham also experiments with the timelessness of certain symbols and gestures across cultures.
In 2008, Arsham co-founded Snarkitecture with architect Alex Mustonen. Snarkitecture is a collaborative design practice established to investigate the boundaries between the disciplines of art and architecture. Snarkitecture focuses on the reinterpretation of everyday materials, structures and programs to new and imaginative effect. The studio’s work includes installations, architectural environments and objects for a diverse range of clients such as Beats by Dre, Calvin Klein, COS, Design Miami, Gufram, Kith, New Museum, and Valextra.
