The Theater of Disappearance at The Met Fifth Avenue
Argentinian artist Adrián Villar Rojas has transformed the Cantor Roof with an intricate site-specific installation that uses the Museum itself as its raw material. Featuring detailed replicas of nearly 100 objects from The Met collection, The Theater of Disappearance encompasses thousands of years of artistic production over several continents and cultures, and fuses them with facsimiles of contemporary human figures as well as furniture, animals, cutlery, and food. Each object—whether a 1,000-year-old decorative plate or a human hand—is rendered in the same black or white material and coated in a thin layer of dust.
April 14, 2017
End DateOctober 29, 2017
Hours10:00 AM - 05:30 PM
AddressThe Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000 Fifth Avenue New York, NY 10028
Event TypePublic
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