Bernardí Roig. Theorem (interrupted)

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Curators Fernando Castro Flórez

Bernardí Roig’s exhibition Teorema (interrumpido) [Theorem (interrupted)] is a compilation of what can be referred to as his “film pieces”: those pieces where the central element is linked to a film in its own particular form of appropriation resulting in a dialogue between images. The curator of the exhibition, Fernando Castro Flórez, has selected a number of pieces in which the artist does his own interpretation of Antonioni’s Blow Up, David Lynch’s Blue Velvet, Pasolini’s Theorem, Bergman’s Cries and Whispers, Herzog’s The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser, John Leslei’s The Chameleon, Alain Resnais’s L’Année Dernière à Marienbad, Tarkovsky’s Nostalghia, or The Italian, based on a story by Thomas Bernhard. Bernardí Roig’s “appropriation” has nothing to do with the anaesthetisation of taste which is at the basis of ready-mades, on the contrary, his choices have to do with a personal stylistic cartography that does not stop at the ritualistic act of a mere tribute, but takes advantage of what Comolli described as “the fictional fatality of cinema”.

Teorema (interrumpido) is the first curated selection of film pieces and video installations by Bernardí Roig. A book will be published based on the exhibition with collaborations by Fernando Castro Flórez, Miguel Ángel Hernández Navarro, Enrique Vila-Matas, Alberto Ruiz de Samaniego and Omar Calabrese.