#Adrian Villar Rojas

[mentaltimetraveller]

Àdrian Villar Rojas, Untitled (From The Series Rinascimento) (2017)

kurimanzutto, Mexico City; Marian Goodman Gallery (New York, Paris, London / Londres) Photo : © Philipp Hänger/Kunsthalle Basel

[orchidblack]

Glimpses of Adrián Villar Rojas' The End of Imagination

[charmabrasion]

[boyhood]

hi lizz! i’m currently taking an elective course on the bibles usage in art throughout history and am writing a piece on art ushering in religious experiences/ art being used to fill the vacuum left by religion in the modern day. i was wondering if you had any particular favourite pieces that invoke these feelings in yourself? i’ve also suffered a loss in my family this week and amas has been very comforting in this time so i wanted to thank you <3

Hi! Oof, what a question! I've been trying to consider what this might specifically mean for me- the idea of something that would fill a religious vacuum. I think I have a couple ideas, but I don't know if they are specifically what you want.

When I think of what you are describing, I think of moments of wonder and being overwhelmed and sometimes feeling a little horror, a little confusion. I think of nature and man made objects sitting with each other in uneasy ways, of history and time collapsing in on themselves.

I think of Jan Fabre's 2002 work Hall of Mirrors, which was installed in the Royal Palace of Brussels. I have a lot of gripes with Fabre's practice as a whole, but there is something undoubtedly spectacular about this work and the fact that these beetle wing casings will probably long outlive the palace they've been placed in. They will retain their color and luster after the building has crumbled to dust.

I think of Olafur Eliasson's Ice Watch and Mark Wilson and Bryndis Snaebjornsdottir's Nanoq: Flat Out and Bluesome, because I find the idea of encountering evidence of a disappearing environment like this to be unsettling and otherworldly and frightening and therefore holy. In Ice Watch, Eliasson installs icebergs into cities, where they will melt before our eyes. In Nanoq, all the taxidermied polar bears in The United Kingdom were placed in one room- an ark of anxiety as to why and how these bears arrived in these places and how this may soon be the only way we can see them.

I also think of Dario Robleto's work- most of it, to be honest- because it attempts to reach through time to explore experiences of love and death and tries to see how those sensations might be made physical. Robleto's work deserves a longer explanation than I currently have time for, but he is certainly worth sitting with for quite awhile.

You might also look at the work of Guadalupe Maravilla if you're thinking of direct mystical experiences, or someone like Adrian Villar Rojas whose work has to do a lot with the displacement of objects in time. The Theater of Disappearance is very dear to me and was, indeed, a religious experience to walk through.

Somewhere in my house I have a copy of Art and Religion in the 21st Century by Aaron Rosen- I remember enjoying its approach to the subject, if you aren't familiar with that book already.

I'm very sorry for your loss, and happy that AMAS has been a comfort.

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teórica: personajes mencionados; walter benjamin, aby warburg, marianne north, kathe kollwitz, karl blossfeldt, august sander, gerhard richter, mark dion, pablo la padula, andy warhol, gabriel orozco, adrian villar rojas, lara favaretto.

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Adrian Villar Rojas Fundacion Nmac, Vejer de la Frontera, Cadiz, Spain. Photo Jon Gasca

[brother-hermes]

HALF-TRUTHS

If G-D is infinite then there would be no restrictions, limitations or boundaries to said G-D, ruling out the Theological concept of a separate being that oversees all things. Some choose to name the Universe their G-D but even this doesn’t hold well under scrutiny. G-D is immutable and everything in our Universe is in a constant state of flux. O.G. Heraclitus said “Everything is constantly shifting, changing, and becoming something other to what it was before.” This alludes to us being restricted to our material world wherein we are to follow the rules of its existence. That being said, even matter melts into mystery in light of us furthering our understanding of the subtle play of energy encompassing all that we experience.

So is G-D the energy moving through all Living things? How would Life evolve from energy? The Hermeticist say “nothing evolved unless it is involved.” What they are alluding to is the belief that the entire Cosmos exists inside the Living Mind of G-D. This is how they clear up the Divine Paradox of “All is in THE All and all are the all.”

Some people take to the belief that they are in fact gods themselves. They base this on the idea that since our reality has a Divine Nature and all things are but extensions of the Cosmic Mind that their consciousness alone makes them G-D. They go on to sell you their belief and offer you freedom from a life of servitude to the Divine will of whatever nasty depiction of a merciless and vengeful G-D they can conjur. This begs the question: are they right or are they projecting their egos and insecurities out into the world?

Think of the mental energy involved in asking that question. Consider how it forms in your mind and take son a life of its own. Follow me a minute. We can visualize entire solar systems in our heads and whisk ourselves away to unseen lands. Does the fact that it only exist in your head make it any less real to you? Think of the artist, Adrian Villar Rojas depicted above, He sculpts a figure out of marble. In the artists mind this character has ideas, dreams, thoughts of their own, but are they independent thoughts or extensions of the artist mind? 

Thus is the mental nature of reality.

[howmanyartists]

Adrián Villar Rojas

Adrián Villar Rojas es un artista argentino, dedicado al arte contemporáneo.​​ En dicha expresión ha ocupado recursos como escultura —especialmente la de gran formato y con materiales como la arcilla, materia ... Fecha de nacimiento: 1980 (edad 40 años), Rosario, Argentina Películas: El teatro de la desaparición, Lo Que El Fuego Me Trajo

[oculablog]

Adrián Villar Rojas, From the series The Theater of Disappearance (XXXIV) (2015–2018). Stratified formation of concrete, cement, white cement, sand, coconuts and pigments (from the exhibition: Plantetarium, United Arab Emirates, 2015), polyurethane resin, concrete and recycled base rock Overall: 86.4 x 520.7 x 29.8 cm. © Adrián Villar Rojas. Courtesy Marian Goodman Gallery

[mentaltimetraveller]

Àdrian Villar Rojas

Two Suns,

September - 10 October 2015

New York

Marian Goodman Gallery

[mimeticspace]

Adrian Villar Rojas 

[artist-explorer-blog]

My artist of influence, Adrian Villar Rojas on view at MOCA. “The Theater of Disappearance”

[nicolenikolaou]

Athens, Sep 17

[cousijn]

Poems for Earthlings

Go see Poems for Earthlings by Adrián Villar Rojas, an exhibition on which I worked at Oude Kerk. It’s overwhelming, immersive, wonderful and also quite controversial. On view until April 26.

→  Adrián Villar Rojas: Poems for Earthlings

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[contemporary-art-blog]

Adrian Villar Rojas, Los teatros de saturno, Galearia Kurimanzuto, Ciudad de México, 2014