The first UK solo exhibition of Israeli artist, writer and filmmaker Roee Rosen. The exhibition consists of two seminal works: the award winning film 'Out' (Tse) and the installation piece 'Live and Die as Eva Braun'.
Roee Rosen, Live and Die as Eva Braun, number 69 2012, acrylic on paper, 76X56cm
Roee Rosen: Vile, Evil Veil
Live and Die as Eva Braun/ Out (Tse)
Exhibition: 21 March - 5 May 2012. Press view: Tuesday 20 March 2012, 10am - 12 noon, talk at 11am
Iniva (Institute of International Visual Arts) presents the first UK solo exhibition of Israeli artist, writer and filmmaker Roee Rosen:Vile, Evil Veil. The exhibition consists of two seminal works: the award winning film Out (Tse) and the installation Live and Die as Eva Braun. Roee Rosen is one of the most influential artists in Israel, and is known not only as a virtuoso painter, but also as a novelist, a polemic intellectual, and an admired teacher.
"The demon moves from one surrogate to another, and ‘belongs' to them all, he is ours. This process of self-implication is always on my mind when meddling with the pleasures that art offers ( beauty, desires, fantasies, aesthetics) as bound with politics (power, discontent, reality, ethics)." Roee Rosen
Through innovative role-play Rosen stages the ethical dilemmas that underlie social reality in his native Israel, and beyond. In Live and Die as Eva Braun (1995-97) the spectator is invited to become Eva Braun, Hitler's lover, during the last days of the war, experiencing intimacy with the dictator, his suicide and a short trip to hell. When displayed in the Israel Museum in 1997 this work drew such controversy that the then Minister for Education requested its closure. Since then the work has been acclaimed as ‘groundbreaking' and displayed in Berlin, New York, and Warsaw. Live and Die as Eva Braun is an installation and a book, from which 66 works on paper and ten segments of text are on display in the ground floor gallery Project Space 1.
Rosen's award winning film Out (Tse)(34mins; 2010) is screened upstairs at Rivington Place. The film deals with boundaries between the body and state, radical sexuality and politics through a staged domination/ submission exorcism scene set in an ordinary living room. The public is advised that this film contains scenes of a sexual nature.
Rosen has also created a special piece for the front window of Rivington Place.
Roee Rosen: Vile, Evil Veil contributes to the discussions about the Middle East which Iniva has explored through recent exhibitions and projects.
Awards for Out (Tse):
Orizzonti award, best medium-length film, 67th Venice Film Festival
ARTE Award for best European film, Oberhausen Short Film Festival
First prize, Bucharest International Experimental Film Festival
Official nomination for the European Academy Awards, Sarajevo Film Festival
Roee Rosen: Vile, Evil Veil is curated by Hila Peleg (Berlin)
Exhibition architecture by KUEHN MALVEZZI (Berlin / Milan)
A series of workshops and events accompany this exhibition, Blasphemy and Redemption. They explore themes of sexuality, politics and ventriloquism, looking at memories of oppression and the democratic of difference in the Middle East. Co-ordinated by Adrian Rifkin, Professor of Fine Art, Goldsmiths, University of London. Full details will be announced on the Iniva website www.iniva.org
Artist's talk: Thursday 22 March, 6:30pm
An opportunity to hear exhibiting artist Roee Rosen talk about his past and present work.
Editor's Notes
Artist, curator and participants biographies:
Roee Rosen
Roee Rosen (b. 1963) lives and works in Israel. Rosen received his BFA from the School of Visual Arts and his MFA from Hunter College, both in New York. He currently heads the post graduate visual arts program at HaMidrasha College of Art, and teaches at the Bezalel Art Academy, Jerusalem. Recent solo exhibitions were presented in Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Center of Contemporary Art, and Tel Aviv, Extra-City, Antwerp. A retrospective of his video work will be presented at The 58th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen in May 2012.
Hila Peleg
Hila Peleg is a curator and filmmaker. She is the founder and artistic director of the bi-annual festival Berlin Documentary Forum at Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin.
Adrian Rifkin
Professor of Fine Art at Goldsmiths University of London.
Exhibition listings Information
Exhibition: Roee Rosen
Dates: 21 March - 5 May 2012
Venue: Rivington Place, London, EC2A 3BA
Rivington Place public opening hours:
Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday: 11am - 6pm
Late Thursdays: 11am - 9pm (last admission 8.30pm)
Saturday: 12noon - 6pm
Admission: free
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About Iniva
Iniva (Institute of International Visual Arts) engages with new ideas and emerging debates in the contemporary visual arts, reflecting in particular the diversity of contemporary society. We work with artists, curators, creative producers, writers and the public to explore the vitality of visual culture. (www.iniva.org) Iniva is supported by Arts Council England.
About Rivington Place
Opened in 2007, Rivington Place is home to Iniva and Autograph ABP. Designed by architect David Adjaye OBE, this award winning building is dedicated to the display, debate and reflection of global diversity issues in the contemporary visual arts. An ongoing programme of exhibitions and events is presented by Iniva in the 2 project spaces and Iniva's Learning Space. It is also home to the Stuart Hall Library, Iniva's unique research library with specialist resources and collections about contemporary international visual art.
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