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Adrián Villar Rojas

1980

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Adrián Villar Rojas constructs large-scale immersive installations that combine sculpture, drawing, video, and music to stage confrontations with extinction, geological time, and the Anthropocene. His environments, dreamlike in atmosphere and often monumental in scale, place figures, organisms, and objects in states of apparent ruin or arrested decay, evoking civilizations that have already ended. The work operates somewhere between myth and catastrophe, rendering the human species as artifact. Born in Rosario, Argentina in 1980, Villar Rojas has become one of the most ambitious spatial artists working in this register.

Source: Marian Goodman · Trust score: 100% · Updated 2mo ago

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Parkett no. 93

2013 · Journal

page (each): 10 x 8 1/4" (25.4 x 21 cm); overall (closed): 10 x 8 3/8 x 3/4" (25.4 x 21.3 x 1.9 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

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From the Series Brick Farm (for Parkett no. 93)

2013 · Multiple of mud and unfired clay

9 5/8 x 6 1/8 x 7 1/2" (24.5 x 15.5 x 19 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Return the World

2012 · Sketchbook with ink, pencil, colored ink, cut-and-pasted printed paper, gouache, colored pencil, highlighter, and various other media on fourteen sheets of paper

page (each): 9 7/16 × 12 5/8" (24 × 32 cm); notebook: 9 1/2 × 12 7/8 × 1/2" (24.1 × 32.7 × 1.3 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Return the World

2012 · Sketchbook with pencil, colored ballpoint pen, cut-and-pasted printed paper, ink, colored ink, marker, cut-and-taped printed paper, colored pencil, and various other media on twenty-seven sheets of paper

page (each): 9 7/16 × 12 5/8" (24 × 32 cm); notebook: 9 1/2 × 12 7/8 × 3/8" (24.1 × 32.7 × 1 cm)

page (each): 9 7/16 x 12 5/8" (24 x 32 cm); notebook 1: 9 1/2 x 12 7/8 x 1/2" (24.1 x 32.7 x 1.3 cm); notebook 2: 9 1/2 x 12 7/8 x 3/8" (24.1 x 32.7 x 1 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Untitled, from the series Return the World

2012 · Unfired clay, cement, wood, and metal

78 3/4 x 55 1/8" (200 x 140 cm)

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