Catalog published in conjunction with the exhibition "The Roof Garden Commission: Adrian Villar Rojas, The Theater of Disappearance" on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art from April 14-October 29, 2017. Includes bibliographical references (page 62).
Contents:
Sponsors statement -- Director's foreword -- Activating sculptures / Beatrice Galilee -- Gods and Ghosts / Adrian Villar Rojas -- The Theater of Disappearance, 2017 -- Selected exhibition history.
Summary:
"Celebrated Argentinian artist Adrian Villar Rojas is known for his site-specific sculptural installations. For The Theater of Disappearance, the artist mines The Met's collection, drawing on the five thousand years of world history within its galleries, to create an elaborate ahistorical work. Set atop the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Roof Garden, Villar Rojas's installation transforms the space into a performative diorama, where banquet tables occupy an oversize black-and-white checkerboard floor punctuated by sculptures that fuse together human figures and artifacts found within the museum. The resulting juxtapositions put forth a radical reinterpretation of museum practices."--Publisher's description.
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