Daniel Arsham

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A work of mine that almost didn’t get made. I originally thought about this work for my exhibition last year during the Venice Biennale, but the idea only came about eight months before the show was supposed to open. It was a new process for me using mixed materials, bronze, and stainless steel. When these works are cast they’re done so in different sections, and the challenge is that the metals when cast shrink at different rates so getting them to align afterwards is quite a challenge. Once I had figured out how to make the work itself the other challenge was getting it from the foundry to Venice, which included putting the work on a truck, then a plane, then another truck, then a boat, then a another truck, then a series a metal poles that a palette rolled over, and finally a gantry. I really love the way this work sat in Venice, a combination of the past and the future. The work seems to bring up so many questions about when it was and who it was and who it could be. I have this feeling that a lot of the work I make ends up being a question rather than a solution. Maybe that’s why I keep going.

04.21 01:56

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