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