Bernardi' Roig
dal 26/9/2013 al 11/1/2014
Segnalato da
26/9/2013
Bernardi' Roig
Museo Nacional De Escultura, Valladolid
Instante blanco. The exhibition presents 10 white sculptures, 3 of them are new works done specifically for this show. The contrast between Roig sculptures and the museum collection generates a series of alterations in the historical memory represented.
The Museo Nacional de Escultura (Sculpture National Museum) of Valliadolid present the exhibition Instante blanco of the Spanish artist Bernardí Roig.
The exhibition will present ten white sculptures, three of them are new works done specifically for this show.
Instante blanco is site specific exhibition. Bernardí Roig intention is to establish a dialogue with the Museum's collection and space, to create a new atmosphere and give to the place a new look. His intervention has to be intended like an action that refutes the concept ofthe museum as a mere store of objects located and collected chronologically.
The contrast between Bernardi Roig sculptures and the Museum Collection generates a series of alterations in the historical memory represented by the permanent exhibition and proposes a new itinerary and interpretation of the collection. These ten white sculptures break the sacred silence of the place to propose a new route through the collection of polychrome sculptures.
The title of the exhibition refers to the famous phrase of Goethe's Faust: " Stop, instant: you are so beautiful". The sculpture represent that moment which is captured in the stillness of the form. Bernardi Roig explaines: "that moment is white, because the light once trapped coagulates. It’s in that moment, when we can say that the eye has been submerged in a glass of milk. A huge glass of milk in which the meanings have not yet coupled."
Bernardi Roig's work has always been linked to the poetics of space and has established a tense dialogue with the memory of the images. The light acts as a metaphor for that memory. It's a light that doesn't illuminate, but that dazzles and stuns, that blinds us, like memory. Roig's solitary white sculptures - taken from real people's calque - represent a reflection on the human figure as last and lonely presence. The set of his latest work reflects the vanity of language that continues it’s floating into the ashes of the image.
Image: Perplexity Exercices (vol.II), 2006
Press contact:
Celia Guilarte Calderón de la Barca
Ana Gil Carazo
Pedro González Díez
E-mail: prensa.museoescultura@mecd.es Tel: 983 250375 ext. 120, 121 and 122
Opening: September 27, 2013 at 8p.m.
Museo Nacional De Escultura
Cadenas de San Gregorio 47011 Valladolid, España
Hours:
tue - sat 10am - 2pm and 4pm - 7.30pm
sun de 10am - 2pm