Bernardí Roig

Bernardí Roig - Shadow dancers

Technique: Installation of 4 chromed bronze sculptures. Electric motors. Variable dimensions. 20 x 20 x 8 cm each dancer.

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 at KUNSTMUSEUM, Wolfsburg, Holon Art Design Museum, Tel Aviv, Sala Alcalá31 and TABACALERA, Madrid. Shadow dancers, 2021 is a set of four small chrome-bronze dancers suspended from the ceiling spinning on themselves, with some of their legs unfinished, not amputated, held in the void by a permanent rotation, and casting shadows and overlapping profiles of their own slowness without music. The installation explores the great influence of Degas on Picasso's work, and especially the figure of the dancer. In fact, that was one of the representative ranges in which Picasso showed his insecurity. There are almost no images of dancers dancing throughout his loquacious career, only posing, seated or at rest, except for a corseted and thickly drawn drawing from 1919 and some small quick notebook drawings, more similar to Matisse's The Dance, 1910 than to any painting by Degas. This work can be seen in the exhibition Incesante Picasso. Work and life in the Russian Museum Collection of Malaga, where Bernardí Roig exhibits on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the death of the painter from Malaga. This exhibition is complemented by two other exhibitions at the Museo Casa Natal Pablo Picasso and the Centre Pompidou, which can be visited until May 30, 2023.