Daniel Arsham

"George Lucas' version of the future felt real. It felt worn out a little bit […] Part of the idea for me with the erosions and the crystals is this notion that the works kind of float in time, right? We don't really know when exactly they're from. Part of this sense comes about through the feeling that the works are falling apart, but they also contain crystals which we associate with growth. So there's a question for the audience of whether they're falling apart or actually growing together. Could they be moving towards a kind of completion of the form?"
―Daniel Arsham[1]

Daniel Arsham is a visual artist who designed crystallized relic sculptures of Star Wars pop culture icons, including C-3PO, R2-D2—his favorite character—and Han Solo frozen in carbonite, in 2023. The statues were produced as white cast resin collectibles in collaboration with Sideshow and Lucasfilm, and took reference from Sideshow's one-to-one scale models.[1] Prior to the collectibles, Arsham had sculpted life-sized versions of Star Wars characters, including R2-D2[2] C-3PO,[3] and a stormtrooper[4] that debuted at his Perrotin Gallery exhibitions in New York and Paris in September, 2023 using minerals such as[3] amethyst,[4] quartz, blue calcite, selenite, and hydrostone. The sculptor focused on crafting fictional archeological artifacts[3] to explore the concepts of erosion and growth.[1]

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  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 StarWars.com Daniel Arsham Turns Star Wars Icons Into Future Relics on StarWars.com (backup link)
  2. ↑ Instagram-Logo Daniel Arsham (@danielarsham) on Instagram (post on September 11, 2023) (backup link)
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Premium-Era-real 20 Ans on Perrotin Gallery (backup link archived on September 20, 2023)
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Instagram-Logo Daniel Arsham (@danielarsham) on Instagram (post on September 25, 2023) (backup link)

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