_Adrián Villar Rojas: la inocencia de los animales (The Innocence of Animals)_ at MoMA PS1
Adrián Villar Rojas: La inocencia de los animales (The innocence of animals) is organized by Klaus Biesenbach, Director, MoMA PS1, and Chief Curator-at-Large, MoMA.
The project is an immersive installation that resembles both an amphitheater of antiquity and a postapocalyptic cavern. Consisting of cracked, crumbling clay and concrete, the work points forward and backwards—seemingly to the very beginnings of civilization and its aftermath. Designed as an environment to house the EXPO School, Villar Rojas’ installation serves a place to impart and absorb knowledge.
A member of the youngest generation of internationally recognized artists, Argentinian Adrián Villar Rojas is known for his sculptural installations, drawings, and environments that suggest a world inspired by both archeology and science fiction.
Speaking of his work, Villar Rojas says, “What I wanted to do was work as if I was not human. As if the human species didn’t exist anymore. I mean, as far as we know, for 6,000 light years around us, the only beings that are producing symbols, that are thinking—in the planets, in the universe—are humans. So when humans disappear from the face of the earth, then there will be no more art. What could you do in those last moments? What would the last art look like?”
On May 18, there will be a conversation between Adrián Villar Rojas, who represented Argentina at the 2011 Venice Biennale, and Klaus Biesenbach, director of MoMA PS1 and chief curator at large at the Museum of Modern Art. They will discuss “Dark Optimism” and Villar Rojas’s installation La inocencia de los animales, built for the EXPO 1 School.
Until June, 2013, Adrián Villar Rojas will be also presenting “The Work of the Ocean” at Fundation De 11 Lijnen, Belgium, where he has had conversations with Hans Ulrich Obrist.
