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Roee Rosen | |
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| Born | 1963 (age 59–60) |
| Nationality | Israeli, American |
| Education | Tel Aviv University, School of Visual Arts, Hunter College |
Roee Rosen (born 1963) is an Israeli multidisciplinary artist, writer and filmmaker.
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Roee Rosen | |
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| Born | 1963 (age 59–60) |
| Nationality | Israeli, American |
| Education | Tel Aviv University, School of Visual Arts, Hunter College |
Roee Rosen (born 1963) is an Israeli multidisciplinary artist, writer and filmmaker.
Roee Rosen (born 1963 in Rehovot)[ citation needed ] studied philosophy and comparative literature studies in Tel Aviv University until 1984 and graduated with BFA from School of Visual Arts, New York in 1989.[ citation needed ] Rosen received MFA from Hunter College in New York in 1991.[ citation needed ]
He is a professor at HaMidrasha – Faculty of the Arts, Beit Berl College in Kfar-Saba and at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem.[ citation needed ]
His work has been described by Hila Peleg for Documenta 14 (2017) as creating " ... an artistic universe that treacherously undermines the normative implications of identities and identifications through fictionalization, irony, and revision. In untold variations, he typically links current Israeli and world politics with mythical and political references to European and Jewish history. Using a vast array of fictional characters and iconographic motifs and codes, Rosen frequently refers to, and transforms, not only the canon of the historical avant-garde and transgressive traditions from the Marquis de Sade to Georges Bataille, but also popular media, political propaganda, and classic children's fairy tales." [1]
![Justine Frank [aka Roee Rosen], disguised self-portraits from The Stained Portfolio, 1927 Justine Frank, from The Stained Portfolio, 1927.jpg](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7b/Justine_Frank%2C_from_The_Stained_Portfolio%2C_1927.jpg/220px-Justine_Frank%2C_from_The_Stained_Portfolio%2C_1927.jpg)
As part of his art, Rosen invented non existing artists. His first virtual artist was Justine Frank (1900–1943), a Jewish-Belgian surrealist painter who also authored the pornographic novel "Sweet Sweat."[ citation needed ] In both art and writings Frank combined explicit erotic imagery with Jewish tropes and magical elements, thus assuming a highly polemic and disturbing position. She later worked in Palestine despite appearing to be antagonistic to Zionism and refusing to speak Hebrew. The fabrication of the project entailed a book combining Frank's own novel with her biography and a theoretical essay, entitled Sweet Sweat (Sternberg Press, 2009).[ citation needed ] A retrospective of Frank's works was first shown in 2004.[ citation needed ] In the short film "Two Women and a Man" (2005), Roee Rose himself appears in drag as Joanna Führer-Hasfari, a scholar of Frank's work, and uses this guise to attack himself for appropriating Frank's legacy.[ citation needed ]
Rosen's second major fictional artist is Maxim Komar-Myshkin (1978–2011), a pseudonym for Russian emigrant poet and painter Efim Poplavsky, born in 1978 and immigrated to Israel in 2003.[ citation needed ] Komar-Myshkin established the "Buried Alive" collective, a group of Ex-Soviet artists who disavowed the culture surrounding them, describing themselves as "Russian cultural zombies."[ citation needed ] The project thus entailed fabricating the work of the collective as well as that of Poplavsky.[ citation needed ] Komar-Myshkin, according to the story, suffered acute paranoia and believed he is persecuted by Vladimir Putin.[ citation needed ] In his major work, the album "Vladimir's Night." he takes his revenge on the Russian president.[ citation needed ] Produced in secrecy and supposedly discovered after the artist's death, it describes still objects assuming life so as to murder Vladimir. The second part of the book offers annotation by yet another fictive character, Rosa Chabanova, a hybrid of fiction, political writings and theory. [2]
Several retrospective screenings programs were dedicated to Roee Rosen's cinematic production, amongst them at the FICUNAM International Film Festival, Mexico City (2018), MUMOK, Vienna (2014), La Roche Sur Yon International Film Festival (2013), and the Oberhausen International Short Film Festival (2012).
Rosen also held numerous one person exhibitions in Rosenfeld Gallery in Tel Aviv, The Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, [11] and other venues.
Documenta 14, 2017 in Athens and Kassel.[ citation needed ]Vos désirs sont les nôtres, Le Friche, Marseille (2018).[ citation needed ] AV Festival in Newcastle upon Tyne, 2016 [12] "Gender in art" in Museum of Contemporary Art in Kraków, [13] Monday Begins on Saturday, The First Edition of the Bergen Assembly, Bergen, Norway. Taipei Biennial, Taiwan, 2012, "Animism" at Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin, [14] "Host & Guest," the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, [15] "Cargo-Cult" in Bat Yam Museum of Art. [16] Manifesta 7, 2007, Trento, Italy.[ citation needed ]
Films by Rosen include:
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