Adrián Villar Rojas
°1980, Rosario (AR) – lives and works in Rosario (AR) and New York (US)
Adrián Villar Rojas has prolifically produced various monumental sculptures and installations across the world, which deals with ideas pertaining to futurity,the anthropocene, decay and the death of things. His obsession with time, the labor of man, the glory of nature have synthesized into a post-apocalyptic language in making art uniquely his own.
His installations are filled with drafted sculptures, imagined fossils of an unattained future and a nonexistent past, looming in debris of discarded objects, junk, trash and rotten vegetation, etc.
A world nomad, Villar Rojas operates with a team of collaborators, settling and exploring new territories, fascinated with material vestiges, creating site-specific yet far-reaching projects that embrace the common detritus of the world.
(courtesy of the Marrakech Biennale)
Adrián Villar Rojas – Mi familia muerta (My Dead Family), installation view in the Yatana Forest, 2nd End of The World Biennial, Ushuaia in 2009 (Photo by Carla Barbero)
Adrián Villar Rojas – Two Suns, installation view at Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, 2015 (Photo by Jörg Baumann)
Adrián Villar Rojas – Today We Reboot the Planet, Argentina, 1980, installation view at Serpentine, London in 2013 (Photo by Jörg Baumann)
Adrián Villar Rojas – Today We Reboot the Planet, Argentina, 1980, installation view at Serpentine, London in 2013 (Photo by Jörg Baumann)
Adrián Villar Rojas – Today We Reboot the Planet, Argentina, 1980, installation view at Serpentine, London in 2013 (Photo by Jörg Baumann)
Adrián Villar Rojas – Poemas para terrestres (Poems for Earthlings), exhibition view at Jardin des Tuileries, Paris in 2011
Adrián Villar Rojas’ recent solo exhibitions include Moderna Museet, Stockholm; Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Torino; Casa Encendida, Madrid; The High Line, New York; Serpentine Gallery, London; Museum Haus Konstructiv, Zurich; and Musée du Louvre, Paris. He participated in the biennales of Sharjah, Venice, Marrakech, Istanbul, Shanghai and Havana, and in Documenta 13, Kassel.
Other group shows include venues such as MoMA PS1, New York; The Solomon R. Guggenheim, New York; LVHM, Paris; and MOCA, Detroit.
Adrián Villar Rojas is represented by the following galleries;
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Adrián Villar Rojas – Untitled IV (from the series Rinascimento), 2015-2021
Adrián Villar Rojas – The Most Beautiful of All Mothers, installation view on the shore of Leon Trotsky’s former house on Büyükada Island, 14th Istanbul Biennial, 2015 (Photo by Jörg Baumann)
Adrián Villar Rojas – La inocencia de los animales (The Innocence of Animals), installation view at MoMa PS1, New York in 2013 (Photo by Cathy Carver)
Adrián Villar Rojas – Ahora estaré con mi hijo, el asesino de tu herencia (Now I Will Be with My Son, the Murderer of Your Heritage), 2011
Adrián Villar Rojas – Ahora estaré con mi hijo, el asesino de tu herencia (Now I Will Be with My Son, the Murderer of Your Heritage), 2011
