Daniel Arsham’s fossilised supercars are coming to LA
Images: Guillaume Ziccarelli, courtesy the artist and Perrotin.
Images: Guillaume Ziccarelli, courtesy the artist and Perrotin.
Images: Guillaume Ziccarelli, courtesy the artist and Perrotin.
Images: Guillaume Ziccarelli, courtesy the artist and Perrotin.
Images: Guillaume Ziccarelli, courtesy the artist and Perrotin.
Sports activities vehicles turn out to be long-lost relics on the Petersen Automotive Museum, which is internet hosting an exhibition of Daniel Arsham’s fictional archeological automobiles.
Entitled Arsham Auto Motive, and opening on 25 February, the present revolves round a sequence of vehicles forged in supplies together with sand, quartz and selenite. Though the items are precise replicas of real-life fashions such because the Porsche 356 Speedster or the Ford Mustang, Arsham has carved into or eroded components of their exterior, turning the supercars into decaying artefacts.
The artworks are a part of an ongoing physique of labor by the New York-based artist, who has turned a wide range of on a regular basis objects – akin to telephones and cameras – into what he describes as ‘future relics’.
In addition to vehicles, the exhibition options different automotive-related paraphernalia, together with a crumbling petrol pump. The museum describes the items as ‘presenting the viewer with a glimpse of future historical past’.
Arsham Auto Motive is on show from 25 February to 26 November.
