La Inocencia de los Animales
With their crude physicality and cracked surfaces, his sculptures are redolent of ruins, but their forms are more futuristic than antiquated.
Adrián Villar Rojas
Rosario, Argentina, 1980
Lives and works in Buenos Aires, Argentina
Artist Photo: ©Doris Kessler
Artwork Photos: Courtesy of Galeria Travesia Cuatro
Artwork Photos: Courtesy of Galeria Travesia Cuatro
From 1998 to 2002 Adrián Villar Rojas studied at the Escuela de Bellas Artes in Rosario, and in 2005 he held a scholarship at the Clínica de Artes Visuales in Buenos Aires. His work centres around monumental site-specific works, fabricated almost entirely out of mud, clay and brick. Working with a team of collaborating builders, sculptors and engineers, Villar Rojas tests the limits of clay to create an apparently fossilised world of ruins and ancient monuments that challenges the concept of time, history, modernity and the future. With their crude physicality and cracked surfaces, his sculptures are redolent of ruins, but their forms are more futuristic than antiquated. His pieces are typically destroyed after being exhibited, becoming a sort of temporary performance.
La Inocencia de los Animales