BERNARDÍ ROIG (Palma de Mallorca, 1965)."Colour light exercises", 2003.Polyester resin and fluorescents.Provenance: Important Spanish Collection.Measurements: 180 x 70 x 60 cm.Bernardí Roig's unmistakably white sculptures dialogue with the hurtful light of the fluorescent lights that accompany them. Based on real people, his works are polysemic and open, and respond to a society determined by a lack of historical memory and identity. For the Mallorcan artist, white is the incarnation of the absence of communication between different human beings and of the empty society we have created, taken over by the mass-media.Bernardí Roig is considered one of the most relevant contemporary Spanish artists on the international scene, having exhibited in numerous galleries, museums and institutions all over the world. His production includes painting, installations, video and even essay writing. He has been awarded important prizes such as the Special Prize of the Fundació Pilar i Joan Miró, the Sotheby's Prize, the Egypt Biennial in 2001 and the official prize of the XXI International Biennial of Graphic Art in Slovenia. Since the mid-1990s, he has held solo exhibitions in leading galleries, museums and art centres such as the Miró Foundation (1995), the Totem il Cannale gallery in Venice (1996), the Museum of Contemporary Art and Design of San José in Costa Rica (1997), the Ludwig Foundation in Havana (1999), the Museo Jacobo Borges in Venezuela (2000), the Museo de Bellas Artes 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 Biennale (2001), the Egypt Biennale (2001) and the Arco fair in Madrid. He is currently represented at 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.