Watch as one of the outdoor sculptures by Daniel Arsham is installed at Yorkshire Sculpture Park

Some of his pieces are on display at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park at West Bretton near Wakefield.

American artist Mr Arsham said: “As history progresses, all objects become antiquated and in some way, they all become ruins or relics, disused or buried.

"In 1,000 years everything that we own will inevitably become one of those things. I don’t particularly see that as having an apocalyptic quality – it’s sort of just the march of time moving on.”

A photocall was staged yesterday during the installation of outdoor sculptures.

Mr Arsham’s sculptures take influence from pop culture and history, such as his retelling of the Greek muse of tragedy in Unearthed Bronze Eroded Melpomene (2021) to the recognisable Pokémon cartoon character in Bronze Crystallized Seated Pikachu (2022).

The exhibition called Relics in the Landscape will be on display from October 1 in the Formal Garden at Yorkshire Sculpture Park. It is the first UK museum display of work by the highly acclaimed North American artist,

Six of his bronze sculptures will be shown outdoors in the 18th-century Formal Garden at YSP including Bronze Extraterrestrial Bicycle (2022), Bronze Eroded Bunny (Large) (2022), and the three-metre tall Bronze Eroded Venus of Arles (Large) (2022) – Arsham’s retelling of the ancient marble statue of Aphrodite.

His sculptures appear as archaeological remnants of our time that he describes as “future relics”.

His artistic practice is underpinned by the formative childhood experience of surviving Hurricane Andrew, which struck the Southern United States in 1992 and destroyed his family home and everything around it.

Reflecting this, his works are partially decayed and explore regeneration represented by real crystals that have been cast in bronze.

A visit to Easter Island in 2011 where he encountered a palaeontology research expedition deepened Arsham’s interest in archaeology and continues to inform his practice.

Yorkshire Sculpture Park (YSP) is said to be one of the finest places in Europe to experience modern and contemporary sculpture in the open air.