While we live in a seemingly fixed landscape both culturally and physically, this landscape can be broken by exposing
the unexpected in it.--Daniel Arsham
Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Miami is pleased to announce a solo exhibition of Daniel Arsham, a Miami and New York
based artist. Featuring a new series of drawing and sculpture, his second exhibition at the Miami gallery presents the
artist's unique vision of architecture and landscape.
The viewer will enter the exhibition through false double doors. Inside, an erosion cuts through a gallery wall and eats
into the other side of the wall. The two adjacent walls are pulled and tied into a knot and are becoming one.
In his meticulous drawings, executed in gouache on Mylar, architecture is represented by clusters of rods, the basic
units of an intelligent, autonomous structure eager to become part of nature by directing themselves towards a uncanny
light glowing behind the trees.
"The Undoing" will invite the viewer to explore the artist’s romantic vision of architecture that symbolizes a man-made
cityscape. In his sculptural work, the elements of architecture are merging within the gallery space by fluidly
transforming themselves into new shapes and creating illusions in natural formations. At the same time, fragments of
architecture in the drawings float in space, seeming to integrate with nature that surrounds them.