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The Roof Garden Commission : the theater of disappearance / Beatrice Galilee, Adrián Villar Rojas.

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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  • Galilee, Beatrice, 1982-
  • Villar Rojas, Adrián, 1980-
  • Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) host institution.
  • Roof Garden Commission (Exhibition) (2017 Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Roof Garden (New York, N.Y.))
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
Alternative Title
  • Theater of disappearance
  • Adrián Villar Rojas
  • Roof Garden Commission
Subject
  • Villar Rojas, Adrián, 1980- > Exhibitions
  • Villar Rojas, Adrián, 1980-
  • Site-specific installations (Art) > Exhibitions
  • Site-specific installations (Art)
Genre/Form
  • Exhibition catalogs
  • 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.
ISBN
  • 1588396215
  • 9781588396211
OCLC
972803424
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library