{"product_id":"andra-ursuta-andra-ursuta-9786185039462","title":"Andra Ursuta: Apocalypse Now and Then","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eUrsu?a's anachronistic artifacts transport viewers into a realm of ancient tropes, grotesque votives and scarred bronze figures\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRomanian 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. \u003ci\u003eApocalypse Now and Then\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eDesolation Ware\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Andra Ursuta\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 618503946X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9786185039462\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Deste Foundation for Contemporary Art\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/27\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 96\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Andra Ursuta","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":49148513845503,"sku":"9786185039462","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/andra-ursuta-andra-ursuta-9786185039462","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}