Adrián Villar Rojas
From the series The Theater of Disappearance
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October 3, 05:55 PM GMT
Estimate
50,000 - 70,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Adrian Villar Rojas
b. 1980
From the series The Theater of Disappearance
Carrara marble and Nylon 12 PA
84 by 60 by 43 in.
213 by 152.4 by 109.2 cm.
Executed in 2017.
kurimanzutto, Mexico City
Acquired from the above in 2017 by the present owner
Oliver Basciano, "Adrián Villar Rojas," ArtReview, 29 September 2017, another example illustrated (online)
"Isn’t this idea of an alien mind that thinks retrospectively about human culture, the Earth, nature, the Anthropocene, mixing them with total horizontality—i.e., without knowing the difference between Christ, an iPhone or a turtle—a quite radical form of de-centering, distraction and detour? This alien mind is neither making science nor collecting information. It has no instrumental aim. It is just playing with absolute respect and seriousness, as children do. The emotional attitude in this game is thus one of mourning and reparation, never irony or cynicism." (Gianluigi Ricuperati, “Adrian Villar Rojas ‘Rinascimento’ at Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin.” Mousse Magazine, 2016.)
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