Audemars Piguet Modern (APC) and the Aspen Art Museum (AAM) have co-commissioned a brand new sculpture by Adrián Villar Rojas that can be unveiled in November within the Jura Mountains earlier than touring to the latter establishment for a multi-floor exhibition in 2026.
A press launch acknowledged that (Untitled) The Language of the Enemy “attracts a parallel between paleontology and speculative reminiscence” and “presents a fictionalised historical past during which an encounter with fossilized dinosaur stays might need sparked the earliest act of art-making.”
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Rojas is an Argentinian sculptor represented by Marian Goodman Gallery who just lately had work exhibited on the twenty first Century Museum of Trendy Artwork in Kanazawa, Japan and on the Pinault Assortment in Paris.
The Jura Mountains are inside the Vallée de Joux—a area which marks the French-Swiss border and include limestone formations which housed the first-studied Jurassic fossils.
APC’s co-commission of Rojas’ (Untitled) The Language of the Enemy is the primary time the devoted artwork program for the posh Swiss watch firm has introduced a commissioned art work in that location—its hometown—and the primary joint fee with Aspen Artwork Museum.
APC curator Audrey Teichmann instructed ARTnews that when the group commissions work from an artist, they help with inception, analysis, improvement, fabrication, press, different features of mission administration, and discovering a associate establishment, as a result of it doesn’t have an exhibition area of its personal.
“It may be authorized recommendation when wanted,” Teichmann stated. “It’s a really custom-made course of.”
APC stated it additionally offers “steady assist” to the artists it commissions by means of its dedication to help in a second exhibition. “We’ve bought to comprehend that the one-shot assist just isn’t what’s the most important when it comes to bringing a piece to the eye of different curators, bringing a number of audiences to broaden their horizons,” Teichmann stated. “We’d like extra exhibitions, and long-term, longer conversations.”
This assist consists of storage of the commissioned art work between the primary and the second exhibition. “If you assist the manufacturing of the work, you’ll be able to’t simply deliver one thing on the shoulders of the artist and never care about how they are going to maintain the situation [of the] work,” she stated.
APC didn’t speak in confidence to ARTnews a selected monetary determine for the co-commission, however did say in a press release that there was a monetary contribution, including that each APC and the AAM “partake in financially and curatorially realizing the art work.”
