Exhibition
MIGJORN by Jaume Roig
18 Jan 2019 – 11 Mar 2019
Event times
10 - 6pm
Monday - Friday
Cost of entry
Free
Address
- Plaza Porta de Santa Catalina 21b
- Palma
Balearic Islands - 07012
- Spain
About
Jaume Roig, born in 1981 in Palma, is an artist trained in the field of ceramics. He grew up very close to this discipline thanks to his mother, who had a traditional ceramic studio in Palma. His artistic work arises from a need for creative expression beyond the production of utilitarian ceramics. Jaume thus begins his more personal search process, making ceramic sculptures and paintings with different clays and natural pigments. Thanks to the natural environment in which the artist develops his work he has recently introduced wood sculp-tures, the fallen tree trunks found around his workshop in the south of the island of Mallorca.
The abstraction present in his works of art shows a deep respect for the nature that sur-rounds him. His workshop, full of silence and calm, is surrounded by a privileged Mediterranean landscape, a unique place where his works are perfectly balanced.
Spontaneity and simplicity in the tools used by the artist, who prefers to work with hands and organic forms, are a constant in his work. Noble materi-als such as clay and wood, creations in stone, iron, etc. will gradually be added...
A great admirer of the mural art of prehistoric caves and primitive art, his sources of ar-tistic inspiration come from those cultures that still preserve an ancestral and authentic essence. Other sources closer to home are the Mallorcan artists of the 1980s, the sculptor Ferran Aguiló and the painter Rafel Joan, together with international personalities such as the Japanese artist Isamu Noguchi and the abstract ceramics of the German Hans Coper.
The title of the exhibition “Migjorn” has its origins in the artist’s childhood, who interpreted this word as if it were a territory, a specific place. In the artist’s words: “In this exhibition, which I call Migjorn, I have imagined a non-existent environment where there is no con-scious life. A virgin territory where there are no spectators, not even the one who looks at it, as in dreams where we are not, nor do they really exist, there is only a part of our con-sciousness that sees it momentarily (...) When I listened to Migjorn, Levante, etc., I imagined that they were territories. I didn’t relate it to directions or winds. In short, this exhibi-tion comes from the need to find an empty space, since our territory is increasingly full.”
Jaume Roig’s artistic career has been accompanied by numerous local exhibi-tions since 2013, exhibiting his works in different centres: Casa de Cultura in Felan-itx (2017), Coll Bardolet Foundation in Valldemossa (2016), CAC its Vueltas a Pal-ma (2015), and winner of the Benet Mas prize, Feria de Barro in Marratxí (2017).
With this first solo exhibition by Jaume Roig at ABA ART LAB, we wish to invite the spectator to enter a new, sincere and visceral land. Works created in a telluric landscape, a Migjorn that has seen the person grow and in which the artist’s most personal creations have arisen.