Adrián Villar Rojas installs banquet of hybrid sculptures on roof of New York?s Met
Argentinian artist Adrián Villar Rojas has created a plaster-cast dinner party on the roof of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, featuring characters and objects brought together from across the museum's vast collection.
The Theater of Disappearance was created for The Met's annual Roof Garden Commission.
It includes replicas of over 100 historic and contemporary items, which have been 3D scanned and digitally composed together.
The pieces were arranged in, around and on top of each other to form hybrid interpretations of the artefacts, then either CNC milled or 3D printed.
The entire installation is coated in automotive paint to ensure it isn't damaged by inclement weather.
"It's an incredibly elaborate method of production," curator Beatrice Galilee told Dezeen.
Most of the installation revolves around a series of all-white dining tables, arranged in diagonal lines across the museum's Iris and B Gerald Cantor Roof Garden ? which boasts panoramic views of Central Park and the Manhattan skyline.
The thick tabletops rest on rows of chairs along either side, although some of the seats are occupied by the sculptures.
Some of the party guests are partially sunk into the table surfaces, while others appear to be interacting with each other.
Smaller objects like tableware from across the Met?s various collections ? from Ancient Roman and Greek, to African art ? are also scattered across the scene.
Other pieces that stand away from the banquet are picked o...
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