The Argentinian artist Adriàn Villar Rojas came to Villa Raffet in February 2011 and will show a large-scale sculpture in the Jardin des Tuileries from September.
Adriàn Villar Rojas was born in 1980 in Rosario, Argentina. He divides his time between Rosario and Buenos Aires. He is represented by Galeria Ruth Benzacar.
A graduate of the Escuela de Bellas Artes in Rosario, and the Clínica de Artes Visuales del Centro Cultural Ricardo Rojas in Buenos Aires, he is representing Argentina at the 54th Venice Biennial, will take part in the Istanbul Biennial, will exhibit at the New Museum in New York in March 2012, and recently won the 9th Benesse Prize for Contemporary Art, awarded by the Futukame Foundation, Naoshima, Japan.
He will use clay, his preferred material, for the sculpture which is currently in progress. It will be a continuation of the work presented at the Venice Biennial.
Adriàn Villar Rojas' work is informed by contemporary literature, classical culture, science fiction, sequential art and grunge. His entire work addresses the fate of Humanity and questions of time: what would remain after the end of the world, the end of art. This work, like all his previous monumental sculptures, will be destroyed at the end of the exhibition.
His residency with SAM Art Projects will give rise to a publication in October.