A multi-media artist, Bernardí Roig left drawing to explore sculpture, photography, and video. Roig explores the portrayal of the body, using materials such as fire and its byproducts, ash, coal, and burnt wood.
Bernardí Roig is obsessed with death and immortality with aesthetics and eroticism, and with the “idee fixe” that the thinking man must reclaim his forfeited ability to relate to one another on an intimate level. He realizes that to truly communicate, we need a dialogue of more than the spoken word.
Roig speaks to the viewer through his solitary man; the human body and its symbols, reflecting on the meaning of life itself. He forces us to confront our desires: the human concepts of progress and social change, which remain unfulfilled.
For Roig, desire is the only thing that keeps death at arms length. It is this tangible proof that we are here, struggling to achieve higher consciousness, that defies the vacuum of meaning that exists in a large part of present day art.
Bernardí Roig was born in Palma de Mallorca, Spain in 1965. He currently lives and works between Madrid and Binissalem, Mallorca, Spain.
Blindness essay. Courtesy of Bernardí Roig
Listening Exercises. Courtesy of Bernardí Roig
No Escape. Courtesy of Bernardí Roig
Exorcises in Levitation. Courtesy of Bernardí Roig
Hanging Practices to Suck the Light. Courtesy of Bernardí Roig
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