Adri疣 Villar Rojas Met Roof

Theater of the absurd might be a more apt title for this surrealistic macabre conglomeration of ghostly objects.

Adri疣 villar rojas met roof.

Adrián villar rojas surreal dinner party on the met roof. Nine white banquet tables stand atop the metropolitan museum of art arranged as if for an elaborate midsummer dinner party or rooftop gala. The theater of disappearance featured artefacts from the met s collection spanning thousands of years. 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.

Exhibitions the roof garden commission. 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. 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. Jörg baumann courtesy of the artist marian.

To create the site specific installation the. 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. The series of site specific commissions on the iris and b. The artist adrián villar rojas is throwing a raucous party on the roof of new york s metropolitan museum of art and it will rage all summer.

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 roof garden commission is accompanied by a dedicated. How adrián villar rojas threw a dinner party on the met roof. Adrián villar rojas the theatre of disappearance 2017.

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