Bernardi Roig

Bernardí Roig - Shadow Dancers

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

Biografía del Artista: Bernardí Roig is a Spanish visual artist born in Palma de Mallorca in 1965. He is known for his multidisciplinary work spanning sculpture, photography, video, installation and drawing. His works often 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 important museum collections and private collections around the world. Among his most notable 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 addresses a society trapped in an era characterized by a lack of historical memory and identity. Through painting, installations, video, film appropriation or even essayistic drift (as can be seen in his collection of "monologues" in the book Binissalem) he focuses on the conflicts that They arise 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, Brussels, Zentrum Fu¨r Internationale LICHTKUNST, Unna, Dortmund, Canterbury Cathedral, Kent, , Alte Pinakoteke, Munich, Ca Pesaro, Galleria Internazionale d'Arte Moderna, Venice, Kunsthalle Krems, Krems, The Phillips Collection, Washington DC, Triennale di Milano, Milan, 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 unfinished, non-amputated legs, held in the void by a permanent rotation, and projecting shadows and superimposed 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, this 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, sitting or resting, except for a corseted and thickly lined drawing from 1919 and some small quick sketches from a notebook, more similar to Matisse's Dance, 1910 than to any Degas painting. This work can be visited in the exhibition Incesante Picasso. Obra y vida at the Museo Ruso de Málaga Collection, where Bernardí Roig is exhibiting 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 Pompidou Centre, which can be visited until 30 May 2023.