Bernardí Roig

BERNARDÍ ROIG (Palma de Mallorca, 1965).
Untitled, ca. 2010.
Polyester resin, light.
Sculpture-installation.
Measurements: 28 x 22 cm (head).

This piece is part of one of Bernardí Roig's most emblematic sculptural series: full body figures or heads whose white color refers to absence (to ghostly presence); and the fluorescent light as a symbol of human blindness, of the deficits of historical memory and the crisis of collective identity. The face conveys realistic, almost naturalistic features, since the author always relies on real people, on friends he takes as models.

Bernardí Roig is considered one of the most relevant contemporary Spanish artists on the international scene, having exhibited in numerous galleries, museums and institutions around the world. His production includes painting, installations, video and even essayistic drift. He has been awarded important prizes such as the Special Prize of the Fundació Pilar i Joan Miró, the Sotheby's, the Egypt Biennial in 2001 or the official prize of the XXI International Biennial of Graphic Art of Slovenia. Since the mid-nineties, he has held solo exhibitions in leading galleries, museums and art centers such as the Miró Foundation (1995), the Totem il Cannale hall in Venice (1996), the Museum of Contemporary Art and Design of San José in Costa Rica (1997), the Ludwig Foundation in Havana (1999), the Jacobo Borges Museum in Venezuela (2000), the Fine Arts Museum in Oviedo (2000), the Max Estrella Gallery in Madrid (2000), the Adriana Schmidt Gallery in Cologne (2000), the Claire Oliver Gallery in New York (2002) and the Ludwigsburg Museum in Stuttgart (2002). He has also taken part in the Venice Biennial (2001), the Egypt Biennial (2001) and the Arco fair in Madrid. He is currently represented in the AENA, Miró and La Caixa foundations, the Jacobo Borges and Sofía Imber museums in Venezuela, the Ministry of Culture in Mallorca, the Saikade Museum in Japan, the Gille Collection in Belgium, the Ludwig Foundation in Cuba and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Costa Rica.