| Management number | 238701729 | Release Date | 2026/07/11 | List Price | US$16.00 | Model Number | 238701729 | ||
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<p><b>Ursu?a's anachronistic artifacts transport viewers into a realm of ancient tropes, grotesque votives and scarred bronze figures</b></p><p>Romanian artist Andra Ursu?a (born 1979) draws from the visual language and display strategies of archaeological museums to invent faux-historical artifacts belonging to a defunct civilization whose relics seem to speak to the anxieties of our present. <i>Apocalypse Now and Then</i> documents the titular site-specific installation in Hydra, Greece, wherein Ursu?a displayed fragments of sculptures and studio detritus that had been successively built up and destroyed with analog and digital tools, including <i>Desolation Ware</i>, a series of lost-wax cast bronze sculptures. In addition to ample installation shots, the volume explores the work's themes--such as the history of object-making and sculpture and the ways in which this manually derived system of knowledge and speculation has come to shape our visual world--in new texts by DESTE founder, Dakis Joannou, curator Elena Filipovic and the artist herself.</p>
| Book format | Hardcover |
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| Fiction/nonfiction | Non-Fiction |
| Genre | Art, Music, and Photography |
| Publication date | September, 2026 |
| Pages | 96 |
| Subgenre | Individual Artists |
| Series title | No Series |
| Number in series | 0 |
| Edition | 1 |
| Publisher | Deste Foundation for Contemporary Art |
| Language | English |
| Is collectible | N |
| Binding type | Case Binding |
| Recording time | 0 min |
| Retail packaging | Single Piece |
| Assembled product dimensions (l x w x h) | 8.00 x 6.00 x 10.75 in |
| Assembled product weight | 1.25 lb |
| Bisac subject heading | Art |
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