September 2001

Nigel Rolfe
MAMBA: Museo de Arte Moderno

Nigel Rolfe visits Argentina to present his performace and conference at the Museum of Modern Art in Buenos Aires.

Rolfe (Ireland, 1950) is an artist and theorist with his work spanning photography, sound, and visual performance, has received international acclaim and has been shown or performed in venues such as the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Franklin Furnace in New York, and the Institute for Contemporary Art Gallery in London. With a practice based in Dublin, Ireland, he is co-founder of Black Market, a pan-European performance art group. He has lectured in many schools in Europe and North America, was a member of the faculty at Yale University from 1983 to 1985 and at the Royal College of Art from 1986 to 1991. He is also a critic for the Chelsea College of Art in the London Institute, and a Course Tutor on Fine Arts at the Royal College of Art in England. Mr. Rolfe has been a Senior Critic at Penn since 1991.

The conference was sponsored by the University of San Andres, and supported by the Fundación Antorchas, the Deptartment of Culture of the City of Buenos Aires, the Department of Culture of the Province of Buenos Aires, Estar Recoleta, and Eskabe S.A.