Questa mostra si propone di formulare una riflessione sulla natura delle percezioni collettive in un'epoca profondamente segnata dal dominio dei media e dal mondo virtuale che, con un eccesso di immagini ipercodificate, superano la soglia di tolleranza dell'individuo.
Il flusso incessante di segnali multimediali ha stabilito la supremazia del linguaggio sull'autenticità dell'esperienza occultando gli impulsi primari della coscienza.
Mimmo Scognamiglio Artecontemporanea presents in its Milanese space the first solo exhibition of the Spanish artist Bernardi Roig 'Practices to suck the world'.
The exhibition includes a series of works (sculptures, videos and drawings), all created in recent years, in which the artist reflects, through a specific selection of images, on representation, misunderstanding, repetition, suppression of memory, excess of light, isolation and anxiety caused by external influences.
The narrative structure of the exhibition begins with a life-sized human figure placed in a corner. His hands are tied behind his back and an amputated leg is replaced by fluorescent neon: the man attempts, in a single burst of symbolic possibility, to suck the world out of the space around him, making the empty environment around the viewer's body throb. Another smaller figure, with a disfigured face and pointed nose, plugs his ears so as not to hear the roar of a sonorous infernal world.
The exhibition is completed, on the one hand, with a series of drawings dominated by the solitary presence of a figure depicted on the edge of suffering and, on the other, with a cyclic video projection in which, in religious silence, the artist literally sews his mouth shut in front of an anaesthetised bourgeois audience unable to blink.
Since the late 1990s, Bernardi Roig has been probing what for the human soul are disturbing and obsessive experiences. His works, at times, have the same qualities as a mirror: they trap and deform our image or place themselves in a theatrical scene that awaits its characters.
His work has developed by confronting the iconographic repertoire of the past and, strongly influenced by literature and cinema, has followed an itinerary marked by the desire to narrate space from both a narrative and theatrical perspective.
This exhibition sets out to formulate a reflection on the nature of collective perceptions in an era profoundly marked by the dominance of the media and the virtual world, which, with an excess of hyper-coded images, exceed the individual's threshold of tolerance.
The incessant flow of multimedia signals has established the supremacy of language over the authenticity of experience by concealing the primary impulses of consciousness.
Bernardí Roig (Palma de Mallorca, 1965) has received, among others, the XXXVII Princess Grace Foundation Contemporary Art Prize, Monaco (2003); the Official Prize XXI Biennale of Alexandria, Egypt (2002); the Pilar Juncosa and Sotheby's Special Prize, Pilar and Joan Miró Foundation, Mallorca (1997).
He has had solo exhibitions at the Kunstmuseum in Bonn (2006), the PMMK Museum of Modern Art in Belgium (2007), the Centre for Contemporary Art in Bragança and the Phillips Collection in Washington D.C. (2014).
His works have been hosted in various museums and institutions such as the Gallery of Modern Art in Turin, the Miró Foundation in Palma de Mallorca, the Science Museum in London and the UN Building.