Known for his ephemeral, interconnected installations and monumental sculpture, Argentinian artist Adrián Villar Rojas (b. 1980) transformed The Met Roof into an immersive banquet scene for the 2017 Roof Garden Commission. This book retraces the artist’s process by illustrating his conversations and discoveries at The Met, which informed an installation that negotiates the museum as both a social space and a space for the display of art. Villar Rojas merges these institutional functions by framing art within the context of a party where viewers and artworks can directly interact. The publication, an integral part of Villar Rojas’s installation, covers themes as diverse as museology, history, and the activation of art—offering a meditation on how museums as artifacts represent and historicize art.
Published by The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Distributed by Yale University Press
Exhibition Schedule:The Metropolitan Museum of Art
(04/14/17–10/29/17)
- ISBN10 1588396215
- ISBN13 9781588396211
- Publish Date 1 September 2017
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 26 January 2021
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 64
- Language English