Bernardi Roig
Bernardí Roig at the National Archaeological Museum of Madrid
Artist Bernardí Roig opens his solo exhibition 'Caps [y] Bous. The Third Horn' on Wednesday, January 22, at the National Archaeological Museum, Madrid.
Caps [y] Bous. The third horn is the metaphor that expands the truth of the object found and reveals what grows on the object once it has been auratized and museumized, when it accumulates so many looks that transform its meaning. From the excavations to the display cases and pedestals; from its magical, practical, decorative, or religious origin – but never aesthetic – to its contemplation in the present.
This exhibition proposes a new perspective that digs deep in search of what is about to appear. Digging means removing what prevents us from seeing what once was. This intervention in the halls and gardens of the National Archaeological Museum discards the idea of memory as a chain of sequences that constitute a linear past, in favor of transforming it into a set of experiences that intersect and overlap. It is a memory that is always reconstructed because it transforms the experience as it recreates it.
The National Archaeological Museum is the temple of the fragment: everything that exists is incomplete, or in any case, may be complete or made whole, but no object has been added anything it could not have had. The third horn is a collection of resonances, overflows, echoes, and frictions that seek to rethink the MAN and build another visible and unexpected form for the public: a whisper to the past, merciless, minimal but insistent.
