Michal Rovner

Description

"Ivorypress Art + Books organize the first major solo exhibition of Rovner in Spain, a collaboration between the PaceWildenstein Gallery in New York and Ivorypress. The Israeli artist defines her work as follows: "My work is not about a political situation, but a human situation." In order to formulate these questions regarding the human condition Rovner uses a great variety of artistic expressions: video production, photography, painting, printmaking, sculpture and architectural intervention. The exhibition and the published catalog include 23 works produced during the past five years, and the spectacular video installation Fields of Fire."--BOOK JACKET.

Description

By repeatedly re-photographing her images, transferring them from video to film and back again, and manipulating them digitally, Michal Rovner creates photographic and video imagery that abstract familiar subjects like houses, animals, and people into ambiguous and iconic forms. Working with representation but against the traditions of narrative and documentary purpose, her artworks imply a tentative universe, one that is paradoxically peaceful and unsettled, vivid and shrouded, and completely counter-factual. If the changing nature of art has resulted in a general blurring of boundaries -- between painting and photography, reality and memory, presence and absence -- Rovner mines this haziness, refuses to respect borders, and exists completely in The Space Between.

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Other Editions

• Michal Rovner: The Space BetweenHardcoverSteidl/Whitney Museum of American Art2002-09-02
• Michal RovnerMotta2003-01-01
• FrequencyIvoryPress2009-01-01