Adrián Villar Rojas - Dancing with All 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa
Adrián Villar Rojas’s The End of Imagination I, 2022, The Theater of Disappearance 2017," is currently on view as part of Dancing with All: The Ecology of Empathy at the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art in Kanazawa, Japan.
The large-scale sculptural element in the work is part of his ambitious series entitled The End of Imagination, in which he uses an amalgamation of software systems collectively described as the Time Engine to generate a series of intensely detailed digital worlds he then places virtual sculptures into and which after are recreated in the physical realm. The complex structure represents the trials of environmental to sociopolitical conditions endured through turbulent digital worlds across timespans.
His work, The Theater of Disappearance, inspired by Piero della Francesca's painting Madonna del Parto (1450–1475) extends above the sculpture and across the ceiling. The reproduction, depicts a pregnant Madonna, and was originally displayed on the floor at Kunsthaus Bregenz in 2017.
With the works on view, the exhibition envisions a comprehensive ecological and symbiotic future with the capacity to take into account society, the psyche, and information.