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Michael Rovner "New cultures" I Moscow Biennale of Modern Art
Special project ImmaterialBox
January 27 - February 28, 2005
Starts at 18:30
Michal Rovner is an Israeli artist who has lived in New York
since 1987. She trained in classical ballet, studied philosophy
and cinema; but then she began her art career as a photographer.
She obtained worldwide recognition with her video artworks
Border (1996), Mutual Interest (1997), Overhanging (1999),
Coexistence 2 (2000), Notes (2000) and Time Left (2002).
Her project Data Zone became the main sensation in the Israeli
pavilion at the last Venice Biennale in 2003. Enormous lines of
people drew up around the pavilion, reminiscent of the artist's
own fantastic installations, accompanied by music written
specially by Philip Glass and which has a direct relation to the
choreography of her movable forms that appear as if they
themselves were music symbols.
Michal Rovner's work presumes to turn to the major global
philosophic and existential problems of human existence, the
relations of a concrete individual to their human community in
general, examining determination and fortuitousness, chaos and
order, the future in relation to the past, with the help of
fundamentally new artistic language. The very complicated
computer processing of real videotaped material gives her the
ability to create her global models, which resist verbalization,
having instead a phenomenal effect.
'Each of my video projects is a result of clearing and
refinement, the result of a process, during which I get rid of
all the details to come to the essence of things: The permanent
alteration of substance attracts me. Indeed, all my work can be
analyzed as a question about human existence, about its
fragility and the fragility of all things, about how easy it is
sometimes to destroy or force to disappear a living creature or
a thing. But I never expressed all these concerns openly, they
enter into the space where, I hope, people will perform new
experiments. This is important for me:' (Damien Sausset 'Michal
Rovner, Choréographe des Ombres' Connaissance des Arts, No. 613,
February 2004).
Olga Sviblova
1 Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art. Official site
Russian version
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