Provenance
(i)
Private Collection, USA
Acquired from the above by the present owner
(ii)
Private Collection, USA
Acquired from the above by the present owner
(iii)
Private Collection, USA
Acquired from the above by the present owner
(iv)
Private Collection, USA
Acquired from the above by the present owner
(v)
Private Collection, USA
Acquired from the above by the present owner
(vi)
Private Collection, USA
Acquired from the above by the present owner
(vii)
Private Collection, USA
Acquired from the above by the present owner
(viii)
Private Collection, USA
Acquired from the above by the present owner
(ix)
Private Collection, USA
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Catalogue Essay
New-York based visual artist and architect Daniel Arsham is internationally celebrated for his multidisciplinary practice that touches each end of the art world spectrum, exceeding any niche or discipline. The present work, Future Relic Complete Excavation Set, brings together all nine editioned works from his critically acclaimed Future Relics series. For this series, Arsham re-imagines iconic cultural items from the 20th and 21st centuries as partially eroded ‘artefacts’, exploring the dichotomies between reality and fiction, and destruction and creation. At the centre of this series is the theme of inevitably - that objects in the present reflect ideas from the past, destined to be transformed by the future. Created using hand-made moulds, Arsham recasts and reframes these cultural items with his signature crystallised erosions that appear stuck in an ambiguous space between crumbling decay and mineral growth. In doing so, he invites the viewer to see these commodities anew and consider how our culture might be historicised by generations to come.

Alongside collaborating with household brands as diverse as Rimowa, Wedgwood, Heinz, and Dior Homme to create a dystopian, post-consumerist vision of domestic life, Arsham has been the subject of solo exhibitions around the world. In recent years, this has included at the HOW Art Museum, Shanghai (2019). The past couple of years have also seen Arsham exhibit at venues including Galerie Ron Mandos, Amsterdam (2019), as well as the Perrotin Gallery in New York (2018) and Tokyo (2018).

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Daniel Arsham

Nine Works: (i-ix) Future Relic Complete Excavation Set

2013-2018
plaster and crushed glass
(i) FR-01 (Mobile Phone)
29.6 x 4.5 x 6.5 cm. (11 5/8 x 1 3/4 x 2 1/2 in.)
Executed in 2013, this work is number 73 from an edition of 500 and is accompanied by its original box and a pair of white art handling gloves.
(ii) FR-02 (35mm Camera)
9.2 x 14.4 x 15.9 cm. (3 5/8 x 5 5/8 x 6 1/4 in.)
Executed in 2014, this work is number 134 from an edition of 450 and is accompanied by its original box and a pair of white art handling gloves.
(iii) FR-03 (Clock)
14.6 x 26.2 x 21 cm. (5 3/4 x 10 3/8 x 8 1/4 in.)
Executed in 2015, this work is number 122 from an edition of 400 and is accompanied by its original box and a pair of white art handling gloves.
(iv) FR-04 (Cassette Tape)
6.4 x 10.3 x .8 cm. (2 1/2 x 4 x 0 3/8 in.)
Executed in 2015, this work is number 332 from an edition of 500 and is accompanied by its original box.
(v) FR-05 (Telephone)
11.7 x 21.5 x 22 cm. (4 5/8 x 8 1/2 x 8 5/8 in.)
Executed in 2016, this work is number 230 from an edition of 500 and is accompanied by its original box and a pair of white art handling gloves.
(vi) FR-06 (Polaroid)
14.1 x 13.1 x 14.9 cm. (5 1/2 x 5 1/8 x 5 7/8 in.)
Executed in 2016, this work is number 207 from an edition of 500 and is accompanied by its original box and a pair of white art handling gloves.
(vii) FR-07 (Cassette Player)
14.3 x 15 x 15.5 cm. (5 5/8 x 5 7/8 x 6 1/8 in.)
Executed in 2017, this work is number 106 from an edition of 500 and is accompanied by its original box.
(viii) FR-08 (Radio)
21 x 42.5 x 10 cm. (8 1/4 x 16 3/4 x 3 7/8 in.)
Executed in 2017, this work is number 254 from an edition of 500 and is accompanied by its original box and a pair of white art handling gloves.
(ix) FR-09 (Keyboard)
9 x 65.8 x 21.4 cm. (3 1/2 x 25 7/8 x 8 3/8 in.)
Executed in 2018, this work is number 339 from an edition of 500 and is accompanied by its original box and a pair of white art handling gloves.