Adri疣 Villar Rojas Met Roof

Jörg baumann courtesy of the artist marian.

Adri疣 villar rojas met roof.

To create the site specific installation the. Nine white banquet tables stand atop the metropolitan museum of art arranged as if for an elaborate midsummer dinner party or rooftop gala. 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 surreal dinner party on the met roof.

The roof garden commission is accompanied by a dedicated. 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. The series of site specific commissions on the iris and b. 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.

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. The theater of disappearance featured artefacts from the met s collection spanning thousands of years. Adrián villar rojas the theater of disappearance. Adrián villar rojas the theatre of disappearance 2017.

Exhibitions the roof garden commission. 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. Metropolitan museum curators sheena wagstaff beatrice galilee explain adrián villar rojas the theater of disappearance in the roof garden. 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.

Theater of the absurd might be a more apt title for this surrealistic macabre conglomeration of ghostly objects. How adrián villar rojas threw a dinner party on the met roof.