The Theater of Disappearance

Exposición / National Observatory of Athens / Lofos Nymphon - Thissio / Athens, Attiki, Grecia
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Cuándo:
01 jun de 2017 - 24 sep de 2017

Inauguración:
01 jun de 2017

Comisariada por:
Elina Kountouri

Organizada por:
NEON

Artistas participantes:
Adrián Villar Rojas

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Etiquetas
Arte contemporáneo  Arte contemporáneo en Attiki  Arte latinoamericano  Arte latinoamericano en Attiki  Instalación site specific  Instalación site specific en Attiki 

       

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Descripción de la Exposición

From June 1-September 24, 2017, NEON will present a major site-specific installation by Argentinian artist Adrián Villar Rojas, at the National Observatory of Athens, on the archeological site of the Hill of Nymphs. It is his first solo exhibition in Greece. The National Observatory of Athens is transformed into a universe of parallel reality: intense vegetation creates a fertile cultural environment in contrast with an almost polemic zone, a zone of human abandonment. This intense contrast is even more evident on a Hill where the Nymphs, female deities, of nurture, pleasure and beauty were worshipped in antiquity. Villar Rojas intervention is a ritual of understanding the paradox The installation titled The Theater of Disappearance is an umbrella title and part of four separate exhibitions taking place in 2017 across Europe and the US through new independent commissions by all institutions involved. The Metropolitan Museum of Contemporary Art, New York (April 14-October 29), Kunsthaus Bregenz, in Austria (May 6-Aug. 27), and the Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, in Los Angeles (Oct. 22-Feb. 26, 2018). About the National Observatory Athens (NOA) The National Observatory of Athens is the first research Institution established in Greece in 1842. The National Observatory of Athens facing the Parthenon and Thission is one of the landmarks of Athens; it has long been used by Greek and foreign Astronomers as the basis for astronomical, meteorological, cartographical and geodynamical measurements and observations in the more than 170 years long course of its history. Today the buildings of NOA at Thission include an Astrogeophysics Museum, housing clocks, telescopes and other instruments of the 19th century, as well as an extensive 19th century library.

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