Adrian Villa Rogas

Adrian Villa Rogas is a sculpture who recently had his first solo exhibition at the Serpentine Gallery. He is known to use organic materials such as clay to create his work. He states "Clay is soil. It'd refined soil" almost showing he wants to go back to times where sculpture was only made by materials that can found in the earth.

He is mostly inspired by the environments. He creates his work around the environment which he is given and uses it to his advantage. He as taken most of his inspiration from a group of Italian artists known as the Arte Povera movement, who were around in the 1960s. The Art Povera chose to make art that was rooted in nature and the fragile human past. Literally translated as 'poor art' they used everyday materials to create pieces which were surprisingly contemporary. This group seemed to inspire Rojas' work in the way that he works. Creating organic pieces using one of the ost ancient art materials, clay. His art is about the fate of the planet, which is ironically made out of the planet.