We Invite You to the Multimedia Art Museum 18.09.2015 to the exhibition Michal Rovner "Offset" in the framework of the special programme of the VI Moscow Biennale of contemporary art.
The exhibition will be last since 18.09.2015 till 29.11.2015 year.
Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow already was represented by Michal Rovner at the First Moscow Biennale of contemporary art in 2005. Then, in the long process of preparation for the exhibition, Rovner worked a lot in Russia. Ten years later, we are proud to present her new works. Rovner is an epic and tragic artist, she articulates very basic problems of human existence. The creativity of this star contemporary art world is particularly relevant today in a world marked by crisis and total displacement of ethical, social, cultural and geopolitical coordinates. Works by Michal Rovner always appeal to every one of us and speak about the impossibility of separate existence of the individual – that the life trajectory of each person inevitably associates it with lived and living on the planet and those who will live after us.
Olga Sviblova
Since 2002, when Michal Rovner for the first time is presented a large exhibition of his works at the Museum of American art "Whitney," she stated of himself as a pioneer in the use of moving image as a no-narrativity, acinematographic medium for creating scenic images and installations. A turning point for Rovner was the exhibition at the Venice Biennale in 2003. Since then, Rovner developed their innovations in different directions: towards the past – using ancient stones and how the media image, and as the context; and in the direction of the future – using different technological systems that allow to implement a new expression of its imagery.
Abandoning the narrative, Rovner brings his figurative images in a fragmented environment. Her time razorvannoe, like the event, having neither beginning nor end. Her abstract paintings explore the video reflections of reality – a dense, enigmatical, disturbing. David Grossman (Israel) writes about the works Rovner: "Her art makes us Wake up, to focus, it forces that causes us to feel the pulsation of the large course of history and our links with it. Rovner turns us into artists: microscopic human figures call out to us from the ancient stones. We don't know who they are. Only that they are human beings. They pray that they are not forgotten and not deleted. They are living remnants of the human experience, have already destroyed or under threat of extermination. They are an expression of the deep desire of man to leave even a fingerprint, a sign, a memory. They are us".
Michal Rovner (was born in 1957, Israel).
Today, Rovner has held over 60 solo exhibitions including a retrospective at the Museum of American art "Whitney" (2002), the Israeli pavilion at the 50th Venice Biennale (2003), exhibition at the jeu de Paume (2005) and the Louvre (2011).
Since 2006 Rovner is working on a series of projects Makom (place), which uses stones dismantled or destroyed Israeli and Palestinian houses, brought from Jerusalem, Bethlehem, Haifa, the Galilee and the border areas between Israel and Syria. Together with the Israeli and Palestinian masons it creates new spaces – places of concentration of history, memory and time.
In 2013, Rovner made the installation "Traces of life" ("Traces of Life") in the State Museum of Auschwitz – Birkenau, devoted one and a half million Jewish children killed during the Second world war. In may 2015 videofresh Rovner Transitions (Passages) (37×5 m) was opened at the station "Stazione Municipio" Naples metro and will remain there as a permanent exhibit. In 2018, video installation Rovner due to open at the station "Canary Wharf" London underground.
Michal Rovner is living and working in New York and Israel. It is represented by Pace Gallery.
The General partner of the 6-th Moscow Biennale of contemporary art is leading private Bank in Latvia Rietumu, the largest philanthropist in his home country and famous including support of projects in the field of Russian – Latvian cultural exchange.
The curators are: Olga Sviblova, Anna Zaitseva.
