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Andra Ursuta: Apocalypse Now and Then

Andra Ursuta: Apocalypse Now and Then

Ursuta, Andra
Marta, Karen
Filipovic, Elena

Hardcover

General ArtIndividual ArtistsSculpture & Installation

Publisher Price: $40.00

PREORDER - Expected ship date October 27, 2026

ISBN10: 618503946X
ISBN13: 9786185039462
Publisher: Deste Foundation for Contemporary Art
Published: Oct 27 2026
Pages: 96
Language: English

Ursu?a's anachronistic artifacts transport viewers into a realm of ancient tropes, grotesque votives and scarred bronze figures

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. Apocalypse Now and Then 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 Desolation Ware, 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.

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