Han Solo in Carbonite by Daniel Arsham
io9: I tend to think of high-end collectibles sold by Sideshow as art on their own. But when you bring this added artistic element into it, it almost brings that into question. Where is the line between fine art and pop culture collectibles?
Arsham: My work has always sort of floated between these different audiences, because of my own relationships with a lot of people outside of the traditional art universe. My audiences have tended to be in a wide range. People that might collect more traditional, what we would think of as “sculpture,” or people that would collect something similar to what we would think of as an “edition” or a “collectible.”
Van Seen: Thank you for the kind words. At Sideshow we believe that there are multiple definitions of what constitutes “art” and that those definitions are never mutually exclusive. The language that we at Sideshow may use to distinguish an artform in the collector community may potentially vary from terminology used in museums or galleries, but there are numerous junctures where these worlds overlap and our passion and excitement for art—and in this case a fandom—collide.
