Descripción de la Exposición
High Line Art presents a new, site-specific sculptural work by acclaimed artist Adrián Villar Rojas within the High Line at the Rail Yards. Fueled by interests in disappearance and memory, Villar Rojas makes work that layers clashing temporalities, revealing ecological concerns and a fascination for the "deep time" history of our planet. His sculptures and installations resemble archeological sites where the future is simultaneously excavated and entombed. As his works incorporate a mixture of animal, mineral, and vegetal ingredients, their metamorphosis over time inherently reflects the material qualities of each of these primordial elements. His sculptures exhibit an animal growth, decay, and repose; a vegetal sprouting and composting; and a mineral, tectonic cracking and settling.
For the High Line, the artist presents The Evolution of God, a site-specific installation composed of thirteen abstract sculptures which punctuate the wild, self-seeded landscape of the High Line at the Rail Yards, and creates a sculptural progression and a rhythmic sequence of forms, reminiscent of a musical score. This new project extends the artist's own traditional treatment of materials, by integrating organic elements such as seeds, vegetables, and other perishable components inspired by the natural landscape on the High Line as well as non-perishable items such as clothing, sneakers, and rope. Seemingly sturdy, the sculptures will instead turn into living organisms, revealing the passage of time through vegetal sprouts and tectonic cracks, which will slowly return the sculptures to the surrounding landscape.
Adrián Villar Rojas (b. 1980, Argentina) lives and works in Rosario, Argentina. Recent solo exhibitions includeLos Teatros de Saturno, kurimanzutto, Mexico City (2014); Today we reboot the planet, Serpentine Galleries, London (2013); The Work of the Ocean, Foundation 11 Lijnen, Belgium (2013); Before My Birth, Arts Brookfield with the New Museum of Contemporary Art, World Financial Center Plaza, New York (2012); andPoems for Earthlings, SAM ART Projects, the Louvre Museum, Paris (2011). Villar Rojas has been the recipient of numerous awards including The Zurich Art Prize at the Museum Haus Konstruktiv (2013); the 9th Benesse Prize in the 54th Venice Biennale (2011); the Nuevo Banco de Santa Fe Scholarship for Young Artists (2006); and the first prize in the Bienal Nacional de Arte de Bahía Blanca at the Contemporary Art Museum of Bahía Blanca.
Collaborators: Nicolas Panasiuk, Ariel Torti, Javier Manoli, Mariana Telleria, César Martins, Laura Langer, and Noelia Ferretti.
Exposición. Desde 19 dic de 2024 / Fernando Pradilla / Madrid, España
Formación. 01 oct de 2024 - 04 abr de 2025 / PHotoEspaña / Madrid, España
