Bernardí Roig

Bernardí Roig - Satin drawings #.167

Technique: Chinese ink on watercolor paper. Framed 77 x 64 x 9 cm. Unframed 42 x 30 cm.

Artist Biography: Bernardí Roig is a Spanish visual artist born in Palma de Mallorca in 1965. He is known for his multidisciplinary work that encompasses sculpture, photography, video, installation and drawing. His works tend to have a conceptual approach and his work is characterized by the exploration of themes such as identity, death, memory and perception.Bernardí Roig has exhibited in numerous galleries and museums in Spain and abroad, and has participated in international contemporary art biennials. His work can be found in major museum collections and private collections around the world.Among his most outstanding works are the series "Blackout", "Selfportrait", "Light and Matter" and "The Shadow of the Monster". His sculptures and human figures wrapped in bandages or covered in plastic have become a hallmark of his artistic style.

 

Bernardí Roig's artistic practice refers to a society trapped in an era characterized by a lack of historical memory and identity. Through painting, installations, video, filmic appropriation or even essayistic drift (as can be seen in his collection of "monologues" in the book Binissalem) he concentrates on the conflicts that arise from the absence of communication between us. conflicts arising from the absence of communication between us. In a world taken over by mass-media, Roig's individuals have lost the ability to distinguish between truth and fiction and between what really matters and what is trivial. In recent years Bernardi Roig's work has been shown in numerous national and international museums and institutions such as the Kunstmuseum, Bonn, BOZAR , Bruxelles, Zentrum Fu¨r Internationale LICHTKUNST, Unna, Dortmund, Canterbury Cathedral, Kent, , Alte Pinakoteke, Mu¨nchen, Ca Pesaro, Galleria Internazionale d'Arte Moderna, Venezia, Kunsthalle Krems, Krems, The Phillips Collection, Washington D.C., Triennale di Milano, Milano, Le Carre d'Art, Nimes, IVAM, Valencia, Museu Es Baluard, Palma, Palazzo Fortuny, Venice, Der Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal, Centro Cultural La Recoleta, Buenos Aires, Museu Colecçao Berardo, Lisbon, CAAM, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, CA2 Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, Madrid, Museo Lázaro Galdiano, Madrid, Busan Museum of Modern Art. Busan, South Korea, LUMINALE 2020, Frankfurt am Main, and recently in KUNSTMUSEUM, Wolfsburg, Holon Art Design Museum, Tel Aviv, Sala Alcalá31 and TABACALERA, Madrid. In 2022 Bernardí Roig presents this series of 721 drawings in his solo exhibition 'Deshollinar los muros' at the Gallery Max Estrella. 721 drawings in the open, urgent, drawn with black ink, some with splashes of color that defy the inflationism of the unrepresentable. They emerge from immediacy, without retouching or corrections. Images of generous bodies, joyful and overflowing with carnality accumulate and spread across the equines. Some drawings build the "mountain of the rejected", others delimit the "zone of the admitted", although they could be perfectly interchangeable. They are all full of time. Drawing is the only tool to rely on because it corners, instantly, the idea that is on the run. The series speaks to us of the excess that exceeds the eye, and forms a conglomerate of coagulated liquid mass and unadjusted lines that disseminate in space. They are drawings without a gaze to affirm them. Except for one, any one, ready to be replaced 720 times. It is framed, hung, illuminated and authorized. And also caged by a voluptuous frame, arranged at the height of the gaze; it could be the visual carrier of the psychic return of the disturbing, since, as is well known, images show us what they are not capable of representing. The frame precipitates that the wall ends and that our gaze is suddenly thrown into the unreal territory of the image. The frame is an insulator and a handhold in this gigantic mountain range of visual mediocrity.