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Red Bernard in the MAN: new narratives

Red Bernard in the MAN: new narratives

The National Archaeological Museum awakens with 6 new pieces dating back to the 21st century. This is the new exhibition by Bernardí Roig (Mallorca, 1965), Heads and Bulls. The third horn. The exhibition, organized by the Ministry of Culture in collaboration with the Government of the Balearic Islands, the Council of Mallorca and the City Council of Palma, opens its doors to the public on January 22 on the occasion of the International Tourism Fair (FITUR) in Madrid, with the aim of promoting Balearic culture outside the island territory.

The pieces on which Bernardí Roig's exhibition is based are the Bous de Costitx, three lost-wax bronze sculptures found in the Sanctuary of Son Corró, belonging to the Talayotic culture (5th-3rd century BC). These majestic heads were discovered in 1895, while expansion work was being carried out near the Talayotic site of Son Corró, a sanctuary that was in operation from the 5th century BC until the Roman conquest. Specifically, these two bull heads and the calf head reflect the cult that the indigenous societies of the Balearic Islands paid to a divinity in the form of an animal.

Conceived as one of the most emblematic pieces of Mallorca's historical heritage, they have become the central focus of El tercer cuerno (2024), the work that gives its name to the exhibition. The installation located in Room 12 of the museum is made up of an imposing tower of light, inspired by the Pou Moro monument, which shelters inside a bull's head with a third golden horn.

Red Bernard in the MAN: new narratives

The Red Tower dialogues with the tomb dated to the 6th century BC as a phantasmagorical presence that is inherent to all the objects that inhabit the museum. The third horn is the metaphor that gives an account of "the truth of the found object", and which at the same time grows according to the new narratives that are generated around this object.

The curatorial discourse is born from the combination of the artist's conceptual universe together with the pieces framed in Protohistory and Roman Hispania. Among the pieces found at the Costitx site, the Head of the Demon Cucarell (2024), inspired by the siurells, figures made of baked clay belonging to Mallorcan popular culture, was missing.

Red Bernard in the MAN: new narratives

In the Forum of the Roman Courtyard, new phantasmagorical presences appear, this time on a large black sheet. Las Cabezas blancas (2024) is the work that reflects, almost like a dream, the absent heads of the imperial era. Continuing the journey to the South Courtyard, another work participates in the discourse on "absence", so "present" in the exhibition. Among the archipelago of marble imperial heads, one stands out that stands out from the rest: the Head of Hannibal J. (2024). This piece emphasizes in golden color the memory of the element that once imprinted character on the faces of the emperors portrayed in the room: the nose.

Red Bernard in the MAN: new narratives

Until May 25, you can enjoy Bernardí Roig's contemporary proposal at the National Archaeological Museum in Madrid.

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