Adrian Villar Rojas
The Roof Garden Commission: The Theater of Disappearance
Published on 1. September 2017
Book
Paperback/Softback
64 pages
978-1-58839-621-1 (ISBN)
Description
Known for his ephemeral, interconnected installations and monumental sculpture, Argentinian artist Adrian Villar Rojas (b. 1980) transformed The Met Roof into an immersive banquet scene for the 2017 Roof Garden Commission. This book retraces the artist's process by illustrating his conversations and discoveries at The Met, which informed an installation that negotiates the museum as both a social space and a space for the display of art. Villar Rojas merges these institutional functions by framing art within the context of a party where viewers and artworks can directly interact. The publication, an integral part of Villar Rojas's installation, covers themes as diverse as museology, history, and the activation of art-offering a meditation on how museums as artifacts represent and historicize art.
Published by The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Distributed by Yale University Press
Exhibition Schedule:
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
(04/14/17-10/29/17)
Published by The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Distributed by Yale University Press
Exhibition Schedule:
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
(04/14/17-10/29/17)
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
68 color illus.
Dimensions
Height: 180 mm
Width: 106 mm
Thickness: 7 mm
Weight
138 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-58839-621-1 (9781588396211)
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Persons
Beatrice Galilee is Daniel Brodsky Associate Curator of Architecture and Design in the Department of Modern and Contemporary Art at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.