Nigel Rolfe

“ BREATH “ Solo Exhibition

Sep 14 - Oct 21 2017

A set of relational works made in 2017 about inside and outside. How the world outside enters us. How we seek to be and where to belong. Where in the world. Caught for breath.

The artist Nigel Rolfe i this performance explores the fhe agency of being and doing most often has four representations: Firstly the body as the site is the instrument for actions. Ths located in place and across time. Its afterlifewhich are perhaps threefold: The residue of what is left in material terms, traces and remains and deposits. Then the captured document as the photographic or filmic record - holding and marking archiving moments of time. Then possibly the most significant, the memory of the transient or ephemeral images made directly in the moment. What resonates and is retained of animatedand changing passing pictures - the somehow caught in between. Take breath, breathe: actions-drawings-photographs Nigel Rolfe is recognised among the leading artists working currently in the performance, a subject he helped establish and define from his first “ sculptures in motion “ in 1969. He moved to Dublin in the early ‘70s and from here he developed and fine-tuned his practice inside and outside galleries and museums and in festivals and biennale across 5 continents. He has developeda solid reputation not only as a leading performance artist but as an activist, teacher, curator and scholar. He has been presenting works consistentlyin many counties for more than forty years.

The opening of Breath was on September 14 2017 at the Green On Red Gallery and the artist performed a new work Breathe - Nine points of dissonance in the gallery.