Adrián Villar Rojas debuts site-specific works at Aspen Art Museum
The Marian Goodman Gallery has announced that the Aspen Art Museum will host an exhibition titled Adrián Villar Rojas: First Gods, Lost Animals. This solo showcase includes new works specifically created by Villar Rojas for the museum. The exhibition explores intriguing ideas like ancient human thought, geomythology, and the intersection of technology with art, as well as how we collectively shape our understanding of the world. The layout features rooms and hallways lit only by exit signs and artificial lighting, with architectural designs inspired by thorough archaeological research. In these spaces, Villar Rojas reflects on humanity's deep-seated need to communicate thoughts, preserve memories, and seek meaning.
Key facts
- Adrián Villar Rojas: First Gods, Lost Animals is a solo exhibition at Aspen Art Museum.
- The exhibition features new site-specific works conceived by the artist.
- It explores themes of prehistoric cognition, geomythology, robotic fabrication, digital simulation, and collective world-building.
- The exhibition imagines spaces where symbolic thought and representation may have first emerged.
- Rooms and corridors are lit only by exit signs and artificial lighting.
- Fabricated architectonic environments are based on archaeological and forensic research.
- The exhibition was announced by Marian Goodman Gallery.
- Villar Rojas examines the human impulse to externalize thought, preserve memory, and create meaning.
Entities
Artists
Institutions
- Aspen Art Museum
- Marian Goodman Gallery
Locations
- Aspen
- United States