Nigel Rolfe
Photographie, Vidéo

Island Of The Sorrows / Festival. Guangzhou Live 3. December 2012 / YouYou Contemporary Art Centre. Xiaozhou cun. Guangzhou.China.
Nigel Rolfe
Né en 1957 à Ile de Wight / Born in 1957 in Ile de Wight
Expositions passées / Past shows
- Infr'action Venice / Venice / Italy
- Ephemeral Self / Finite Projections / Galerie NTK / Prague
- Guangzhou International Art / the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts / Guangzhou
- INFRACTION 8 / SÈTE / SÈTE +
La huitième édition d’Infr’Action aura lieu du 12 au 16 septembre dans l’espace public de Sète, au Musée Paul Valéry et à la Chapelle du Quartier Haut. Comme chaque année, des artistes venus de différents horizons investirons la ville au plus proche des publics, toutes générations confondues.
- TYZHDEN /Week of Contemporary Art / Art in Lviv. School of Performance / Lviv
- THE DARK END OF THE STREET : Works From Contested Ground / Green on Red Gallery / Dublin +
'Don't care how great you are and don't care what you worth, when it all comes down, you gotta go back to mother earth' -Memphis Slim
Sites in the landscape are markers of political events both past but also more present. The land and places on it underscores fault lines and centers our attention on our shortcomings in how we live together.
Whether workplaces or dark and bloody grounds: from the personal to the global .Either close by or far from here. In Ireland from the depleting boglands in the midlands, to the bogside in Derry there are many landscapes of loss and contest. These are reflected too in a wider world far away, wether in Majdanek in Poland or Pine Ridge in South Dakota, places that in themselves bear witness to mans inhumanity to man and stand as unknown monuments to stupidity and greed.
An always relevant quote from Piotrowski states 'that art is no longer an aesthetic question but the question of human survival'. The questions that penetrate us about arts possibility to delve into dark matter or to be able to make any contribution to repair caused by hurt, Inspired by Primo Levi or Chomsky , is to just ask what are our responsibilities in relationship to the world itself, either as creative workers or thinking beings.Perhaps this is a call for a revised political art of the landscape, more timely now as capitalism struggles in deflating economies and environmental damage continues to go unchecked.
- A Rocky Road / curated by Sean Lynch / Crawford Art Gallery / Cork / Ireland
- History of disappearance - Live art from New York 1975 - 2010 / Arhus Kunstbygning / Aarhus / Danemark
- EPAF 2010 / Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Casle / Warsaw / Pologne
- European Dream / Solo show / Green on Red Gallery / Dublin / Ireland
- Terror/Sublime / Crawford Art Gallery / Cork
- Performance Platform / WARSZTATY KULTURY / Lublin
- Dust in Face / Royal Academy Of Art / Londres / Grande Bretagne
- Notes on a Return / Laing Art Gallery / Newcastle / Grande Bretagne
- Dust Breeding / Green On Red Gallery / Dublin / Irelande
- Immergence / National Gallery Of Ireland / Dublin / Irelande
- 10 / Royal College of Art - Gulbenkian Gallery / Londres / Grande-Bretagne
- The milk of human kindness / Video 2008 and selected videoworks 1983 - 2008 / Galerie Polaris
- Minimal Guilt / Green on Red Gallery / Dublin / Irelande
- Performance / Ludwig Muzeum-Museum of Contemporary Art / Budapest / Hongrie
- Many Silver Things / Green On Red Gallery / Dublin / Irlande
- Invited artist / Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition / Dublin / Irlande
- The Rope / Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art / Gateshead / Royaume-Uni
- The book of signs / Galerie Polaris

Catalogue
Between the devil and the deep blue sea
12 x 16 cm, 28 pages
5 euros

Performance

Water in face II

Water in face

Night and fog

The milk of human kindness

Bird Dust

Little Drummer Boy

Milk of Darknesd

Flowers in face

Across the water

Blue Hand Ribbon

The milk of human kindness

The milk of human kindness