Adrián Villar Rojas "Before My Birth"
Brookfield Place (Courtyard Gallery and Winter Garden )
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In conjunction with the 2012 New Museum Triennial, "The Ungovernables," artist Adrián Villar Rojas creates a new public sculpture commissioned by Arts Brookfield for the World Financial Center Plaza called Before My Birth. The new sculpture, a companion to his monumental, site-specific work for the Triennial entitled A person loved me, obscures the relationship between indoor and outdoor, intimate and monumental, examining the working processes in the construction of site-specific and public art. The World Financial Center project incorporates elements of A person loved me translated into a new landscape.
Commissioned by Arts Brookfield, Before My Birth is the Villar Rojas' latest project, in which he endeavors a completely distinct approach to his material of choice. Clay no longer holds the mythological connotations that the artist has given it for so long, instead it becomes a background device that frames a system of minimal resources. In order to stimulate a renewed artistic performance, highly restricting rules were imposed on its design and execution. Before My Birth aims to achieve what Villar Rojas calls "the infinite emotional effect" and defines the recovery of the energy surrounding his sculptures. This energy originates from nothing more, and nothing less than the humans who built them: that is, Villar Rojas and his team. The artist's experiences while working alongside his team in his workshop have uniquely shaped the design for this project. While the installation, A person loved me, at the New Museum stages the moment of greatest distance from human culture in Villar Rojas' work, Before My Birth can be read as the beginning of a return to the earthly.
Villar Rojas (b. 1980, Rosario, Argentina) is known for his massive site-specific sculptures that reflect a fascination with parallel universes and outsized alternative worlds. Last year, Villar Rojas became the youngest artist ever to represent Argentina in the Venice Biennale, where he was awarded the Benesse Prize for pioneering young artists for his installation, The Murderer of Your Heritage. Drawing on the concept of multiverses, the work featured a collection of towering, fantastical plant/machine hybrids made of clay.
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from March 01, 2012 to March 29, 2012