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The Roof Garden Commission : the theater of disappearance

Title
The Roof Garden Commission : the theater of disappearance / Beatrice Galilee, Adrián Villar Rojas.
Publication
  • New York : Metropolitan Museum of Art, [2017]
  • New Haven : Yale University Press
  • ©2017

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Additional Authors
  • Galilee, Beatrice, 1982-
  • Villar Rojas, Adrián, 1980-
  • Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), host institution
Description
63 pages : illustrations (some color); 19 cm
Summary
"Celebrated Argentinian artist Adrián Villar Rojas is known for his site-specific sculptural installations. For The Theater of Disappearance, the artist mines The Met's collection, drawing on the five thousand years of world history within its galleries, to create an elaborate ahistorical work. Set atop the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Roof Garden, Villar Rojas's installation transforms the space into a performative diorama, where banquet tables occupy an oversize black-and-white checkerboard floor punctuated by sculptures that fuse together human figures and artifacts found within the museum. The resulting juxtapositions put forth a radical reinterpretation of museum practices."--Publisher's description.
Series Statement
Roof Garden Commission
Uniform Title
Roof Garden Commission : Adrián Villar Rojas, The Theater of Disappearance.
Alternative Title
  • Theater of disappearance
  • Adrián Villar Rojas
Subjects
Genre/Form
Exhibition catalogs.
Note
  • Catalog published in conjunction with the exhibition "The Roof Garden Commission: Adrián Villar Rojas, The Theater of Disappearance" on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art from April 14-October 29, 2017.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (page 62).
Contents
Sponsors statement -- Director's foreword -- Activating sculptures / Beatrice Galilee -- Gods and Ghosts / Adrián Villar Rojas -- The Theater of Disappearance, 2017 -- Selected exhibition history.
Call Number
JQC 17-166
ISBN
  • 1588396215
  • 9781588396211
OCLC
972803424
Title
The Roof Garden Commission : the theater of disappearance / Beatrice Galilee, Adrián Villar Rojas.
Publisher
New York : Metropolitan Museum of Art, [2017]
Distributor
New Haven : Yale University Press
Copyright Date
©2017
Type of Content
text
still image
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
Roof Garden Commission
Roof Garden Commission : Adrián Villar Rojas, The Theater of Disappearance.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (page 62).
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Added Author
Galilee, Beatrice, 1982- writer of supplementary textual content.
Villar Rojas, Adrián, 1980- Works. Selections.
Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), host institution.
Spine Title
Adrián Villar Rojas
Research Call Number
JQC 17-166
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