Lecture 010

Adrian Villar Rojas

(by Shuyi Yang)

The Theater of Disappearance (series)

• Many white object sculpture

• production over 100 years, put together

• ancient and comtemporary objects

The Most Beautiful

• Mexico City

• Installation at the shore of white big animal structures

Intro Nature

• around 2018, Golden piece of what?

Value

• value the process of making art

• use unfinished pieces

Theaster Gates

Background

• Chicago

• Urban planer, potter, artist

• professor of Visual art at U Chinago

Amalgam

• Explore race, history of Malaga Island

• sculpture respond to racial injustice

Black Monks

• A black band singing blues

• use music in his own collection

Record Collection

• 6~800 album in a single room

• bought from stores

• Value: unused objects are waiting to be unearthed.

The Revival of the Stony Island Arts Bank

• He though his buildings will be abandoned

• he restored a band building to a library in Chicago

• library about black

Louis Josephine Bourgeois

Value

• family

• unconscious

• body

• domesticity

• death

Movement

• installation, large scale sculpture

• abstract expressionism

• feminist

- surrealism

Manman, Bronze (Mother)

• she tried to commit suicide when her mother die

• her mother is like a spider (weaving)

Her Sketches

• convert childhood trama to art

Cell Series

• cell 26: combine organic into industrial

• conflict between private and industrial

• look like human shit and raw meat, hanging, unable to escape, prisoner