The acclaimed Argentinian sculptor’s immersive installation will headline the gallery’s $344m expansion, which opens in December
Four stories underground, a 2,200 sq metre second world war fuel bunker has been transformed into a showpiece gallery for the Art Gallery ofArt by acclaimed Argentinian sculptor Adrián Villar Rojas will be the first installed in the AGNSW’s new Tank gallery, which will open free to the public in December as part of the majorSydney Modern is the AGNSW’s new contemporary art museum and sits alongside the original gallery.
While little is known about Villar Rojas’ plan for the Tank gallery, titled the End of Imagination, he is known for collaborative, elaborate and immersive sculptural worlds which are oftenGuardian art critic Jonathan Jones has described him as “one of the most incisive artists of his generation, a man on an ecological mission that is actutely timely”.Photograph: Jenni Carter Villar Rojas worked on the project in Argentina and New York. He first visited the Sydney fuel bunker during building works in 2018. “This project in Australia is a special one,” the artist said in a statement, “not only because I have been trusted with a space of such uniqueness on Gadigal Country, but because it reminds me of many conversations with many caring and generous people across four years in remarkable places in your country.” Sign up for the fun stuff with our rundown of must-reads, pop culture and tips for the weekend, every Saturday morning The art gallery will commission a new artist to create a site-specific installation for the Tank gallery each year. It’s expected that commissions will play with the unusual acoustics of the space, where sounds reverberate for more than 20 seconds around 125 columns seven metres high. Taken together, the NSW tourism minister, Ben Franklin, said the new Sydney Modern would see the AGNSW become as iconic as the Guggenheim in New York, the Louvre in Paris or the Tate Modern in London.Gallery of NSW joins the great pantheons of art museums in the world,” he said at a media preview on Wednesday.The $344m development has been funded by the NSW government with more than $100m in contributions from private donors. It means the AGNSW will be spread across two buildings, almost doubling the space available for exhibitions and its permanent collection display – and include a new Yiribana gallery for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art at Sydney Modern.Sign up toCatch up on the fun stuff with Guardian Australia's culture and lifestyle rundown of pop culture, trends and tipsNewsletters may contain info about charities, online ads, and content funded by outside parties. For more information see our
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