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Born in 1965 in Saanen, Switzerand, Roger Rigorth studied woodcarving in Michelstadt, Germany from 1987 to 1990 and continued his studies in art in Krakau, Poland and Galway, Ireland from 1992-1993. He has been a freelance artist since 1991 and has taught at California State University Bakersfield (USA) as well as having taken part in numerous symposiums since 1996 in Czech Republic, USA, Australia, Denmark, Namibia, South-Korea, Finland, France, Italy, Belgium, Holland and Germany. His work has been exhibited Internationally in Darmstadt, Worms, Ludwigshafen, Karlsruhe, Mannheim, Heidelberg, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Berlin, Rosenheim, Bayreuth, Bremerhaven, Gelsenkirchen, Basel (Switzerland), Windhoek (Namibia), Rakovnik (Czech Republic), Gedansk (Poland), Pusan (South Korea), New York (USA), and Los Angeles (USA). In addition, Rigorth has participated in residencies at the Vermont Studio Center, Vermont (USA), Danish Artist Council, Frederikshavn/Hirsholmene (Danmark), Freundeskreis Paul-Ernst-Wilke e.V. and the city of Bremerhaven (Germany), and SOPA-Artists Residency Program, Sydney (Australia). His work has won numerous awards including Second prize Art-price Obernburg (Germany), Second prize at Georg-Christoph-Lichtenberg Price, Darmstadt (Germany), First prize at “Kunst im Park” Mörfelden-Walldorf (Germany), and First prize at „Kunst vor Ort“ kommune Offenbach (Germany). Rigorth is currently living and working in Otzberg near Darmstadt in Germany. |
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I-Dragons A dragon is a mystical creature found in many legends, stories, and fairytales. It is also an important part of the cultural heritage of nearly every country. It is much more than an animal; it is the imagination of a creature associated with a lot of characters. In a way, the installation is a vessel of many things --- stories and wishes and much more. To create the "i-dragons" means to give I-park its own individual dragons, living in this big tree and sitting there. They are more a vessel, a cocoon with a mouth for an entrance , than a creature, but they are still dragons. Dragons are found mostly on there own, but in this case I decided to have a pair. They are looking more like a plant, growing on the tree, these days. It is true, but maybe it is just because they are there for a long time and a little bit forgotten in everyday life. |
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