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“Painting has always been this thing to go back to that is very inexpensive, it’s very simple, you can do it almost anywhere, and in some ways it’s going back to the roots of what brought me to art, in general.” — Daniel Arsham
One of our favorite series of Zoom dialogues during quarantine has been the outstanding Design in Dialogue produced by Friedman Benda. Inaugurated on April 1, 2020 and now consisting of over 50 episodes – all recorded remotely during quarantine – Design in Dialogue is a series of online interviews hosted alternately by curator and historian Glenn Adamson and designer Stephen Burks. Conversations are held on Zoom for one hour, beginning at 11AM EDT typically on Wednesdays and Fridays, and include a participatory Q&A. You can catch up on the rest of the series here, and be sure to catch the next one on August 19 with Dan Barber and Gregg Moore, interviewed by Glenn Adamson.
In this conversation, Adamson talks with acclaimed, multihyphenate designer-artist-architect Daniel Arsham. In a lively, wide-ranging discussion, Arsham discusses how he returned to his roots in painting during quarantine and how that inspires and informs his more wide-ranging design work.
From Friedman Benda:
Daniel Arsham, a contemporary artist based in New York, whose multidisciplinary practice embraces painting, sculpture, and object design, spoke about his investigations of built form, often introducing temporal narratives of transience or dissolution—making architecture “do things it is not supposed to do.”
