Adrian Villar Rojas
Adrián Villar Rojas (* 1980 in Rosario , Santa Fe Province , Argentina ) is an Argentine sculptor , installation artist and video artist .
Life
Villar studied from 1998 to 2002 in his hometown at the Escuela de Bellas Artes de Rosario . In 2005 he received a scholarship at the Clinica de Artes Visuales in the Argentine capital Buenos Aires . In 2009 he was represented at the Bienal del Fin del Mundo (Biennale at the End of the World) in Ushuaia in the Argentine Patagonia with his ephemeral sculpture Mi familia muerta (My dead family).
Prizes and awards
- 2011: Residence of the Villa Raffet for SAM Art Projets, Paris.
- 2013: Zurich Art Prize
- 2015: Prix Canson, Paris
Exhibitions
- 2004: Incendio , Buenos Aires.
- 2006: Un mar , Buenos Aires.
- 2011: 54th Biennale di Venezia , Venice.
- 2012: dOCUMENTA (13) , Kassel.
- 2013: Films before the revolution , Haus Konstruktiv , Zurich.
- 2013: Today We Reboot the Planet , Serpentine Sackler Gallery , London.
- 2015: Adrián Villar Rojas , Moderna Museet , Stockholm.
- 2017: The Theater of Disappearance , MET Museum , New York, Kunsthaus Bregenz , Athens National Observatory , MOCA , Los Angeles
Art in public space
- 2010: Mi abuelo muerto (My dead grandfather). Earth, concrete and wood; Academy of Arts (Berlin) .
- 2011: Wed abuelo muerto. Earth, concrete and wood; CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts , San Francisco, California, USA.
- 2014: The Evolution of God . Sculptures made from various materials; High Line , Manhattan , New York City, USA.
Movie
- 2013: Lo Que El Fuego Me Trajo , short film, director: Adrián Villar Rojas
- 2015: Line Art - Adrián Villar Rojas by Heinz Peter Schwerfel
- 2017: The Theater of Disappearance , directed by Adrián Villar Rojas
Web links
- Short biography of the Goethe Institute
- Roman Tschiedl: Adrián Villar Rojas - "The Lionel Messi of Art" , Ö1 Diagonal - Radio for Contemporaries , June 3, 2017
Individual evidence
- ^ Prix Canson website
- ↑ The game with fire in FAZ from June 6, 2017, page 13
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Villar Rojas, Adrián |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Argentine sculptor, installation and video artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1980 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rosario , Santa Fe Province , Argentina |