JAUME ROIG, Migjorn

Migjorn JAUME ROIG

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Jaume Roig (Palma de Mallorca, 1981) 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 sculptures, the fallen tree trunks found around his workshop in the south of the island of Mallorca.

A great admirer of the mural art of prehistoric caves and primitive art, his sources of artistic 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 Aguilรณ 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.

67 x 71 x 114 cm Sculpture in almond wood with black smoke and a olive wood “ullastre¨.

130 x 196 cm Mixed technique in canvas with naturals pigments Variable measures Stoneware sculptures made in Mallorca

“ I have imagined a non-existent environment where there is no conscious life.�

130 x 196 cm Mixed technique in canvas with naturals pigments 130 x 196 cm Mixed technique in canvas with naturals pigments

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 conscious 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 consciousness 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 exhibition comes from the need to find an empty space, since our territory is increasingly full.”

The abstraction present in his works of art shows a deep respect for the nature that surrounds 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...

195 x 287 cm Mixed technique in organic canvas of thread linen with naturals pigments

Varible measures Stoneware sculptures with olive wood üllastre¨.

Variable measures Stoneware ceramic sculptures

The artist has used for the creation of these paintings the application of different clays and natural pigments. The original black of copper oxide and iron oxide, the plaster for the creation of the whites, the red earth of Majorca for the reddish colours, the manganese for the range of browns and greys, and the textures accentuated by the purity of the earth of Ses Salines

Variable measures Ceramic sculpture with pit firing technique

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 consciousness that sees it momentarily (...)

130 x 196 cm Mixed technique in canvas with naturals pigments

¨The need to find an empty space, since our territory is increasingly full¨

Jaume Roig (Palma de Mallorca, 1981) Jaume Roig’s artistic career has been accompanied by numerous local exhibitions since 2013, exhibiting his works in different centres: Casa de Cultura in Felanitx (2017), Coll Bardolet Foundation in Valldemossa (2016), CAC its Vueltas a Palma (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.

Individual and collective exhibitions: 2017 - “Arròs Brut”, CC - House of Culture, Felanitx 2017 - Installation for SaladinaFest, Ca’nPicafort 2017 - “DuduDadada”, Centre Melis Cursach”, Capdepera 2017 - Benet Mas Prize, Fira del Fang, Marratxí 2016 - “Croquis”, Bar Rita, Palma 2016 - “L’encontre Valldemossa”, Coll Bardolet Foundation, Valldemossa 2016 - Exhibition “Cadàver exquisit”, in Ca sa tia Bàrbara, Nitx de l’Art, Felanitx 2015 - Mostra a l’Espai Viveca i “Detritus/Tetris”, DRAPS, Nit de l’Art, Palma 2015 - Collective at “Call Vermell” for Nitx de l’Art, Felanitx 2015 - “Detritus”, Residence in CAC ses Voltes, Palma 2015 - “Cranis i Màscares”, Museu de sa Jugueta, Palma 2015 - Instal-lació “Totems”, Sa Torre, Llucmajor 2014 - Installation of “Caps al Carrer”, Nit de l’Art, Palma 2013 - Collective exhibition “No bodylikesyou”, Palma 2013 - “Petit tractat de món submarí”, Espai Botons, Palma

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