Adri疣 Villar Rojas Met Roof

Exhibitions the roof garden commission.

Adri疣 villar rojas met roof.

Adrián villar rojas the theater of disappearance. Coming to the met roof a young sculptor s scavenger hunt an installation in the sea of marmara by adrián villar rojas for the 2015 istanbul biennial. Adrián villar rojas surreal dinner party on the met roof. Nine white banquet tables stand atop the metropolitan museum of art arranged as if for an elaborate midsummer dinner party or rooftop gala.

Gerald cantor roof garden has featured work by imran qureshi 2013 dan graham 2014 pierre huyghe 2015 cornelia parker 2016 adrián villar rojas 2017 huma bhabha 2018 and most recently alicja kwade 2019. The theater of disappearance featured artefacts from the met s collection spanning thousands of years. Topped with glassware and flanked by neatly spaced chairs the roof seems poised to receive the revelry that flocks to it on summer evenings yet the tablecloths are unnervingly static and a thin layer of dirt coats the entire tableau. Theater of the absurd might be a more apt title for this surrealistic macabre conglomeration of ghostly objects.

Argentinian artist adrián villar rojas has transformed the cantor roof with an intricate site specific installation that includes detailed replicas of nearly 100 objects from the met collection. Nylon printed and polyurethane cnc milled reproductions of human and non human animal figures food and artefacts from the metropolitan museum of art s permanent collection coated in bespoke automotive paint porcelain tiles diamond plate flooring hollybush. Adrián villar rojas the theatre of disappearance 2017. How adrián villar rojas threw a dinner party on the met roof.

To create the site specific installation the. Metropolitan museum curators sheena wagstaff beatrice galilee explain adrián villar rojas the theater of disappearance in the roof garden. The artist adrián villar rojas is throwing a raucous party on the roof of new york s metropolitan museum of art and it will rage all summer. A mini met mashup on the museum s roof with summer views adrián villar rojas s installation the theater of disappearance opens friday in the roof garden of the metropolitan museum of art through.

Adrián villar rojas work has been exhibited at the louvre museum moma ps1 serpentine sackler gallery museum haus konstruktiv the high line moderna museet fondazione sandretto re rebaudengo metropolitan museum of art roof garden commission kunsthaus bregenz the national observatory of athens and the geffen contemporary at moca. Jörg baumann courtesy of the artist marian.