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AM at the JM

Adrián Villar Rojas in Conversation with Jens Hoffmann

Talk

Friday, September 11, 2015
8 – 9:30 am
Think Coffee, Union Square, 123 4th Ave, NYC

A breakfast salon for the 21st century that takes place in the early hours of the day at Think Coffee, Union Square, hosted by the Jewish Museum.

Artist Adrián Villar Rojas will discuss his site-specific installations and recent projects with Jens Hoffmann, Deputy Director, Exhibitions and Public Programs at the Jewish Museum.

Born in Rosario, Argentina in 1980, Adrián Villar Rojas is best known for large-scale, site-specific installations, often made from a unique mixture of cement and clay. The unfired clay cracks upon drying, creating the illusion of a vast passage of time. Within his work there is often a sense of crumbling humanity — a futuristic culture come and gone. Villar Rojas’ works combine the daunting scale of conventional public projects with an unstable fragility, reminding his viewers of the ephemerality of even the most imposing structures. He has had recent solo exhibitions at the Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden (2015); the Serpentine Gallery, London, England (2013); Museum Haus Konstructiv, Zurich, Switzerland (2013); the Louvre Museum, Paris, France (2011). Villar Rojas represented Argentina in ILLUMInations, the 54th Venice Biennial, Venice, Italy, and was included in the 14th Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul, Turkey; the 12th Havana Biennial, Havana, Cuba; Sharjah Biennial 12: the past, the present, the possible, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates; and the 5th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia. In 2012, his monumental installation Return the World was shown at dOCUMENTA(13), Kassel, Germany, and Kabul, Afghanistan.

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Coffee and conversation are free!

Adrián Villar Rojas, The Eternal Butterflies, 2010, kurimanzutto, Mexico City. Courtesy the artist, kurimanzutto and Marian Goodman Gallery © Diego Pérez and Patricia Alpizar

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