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Home > Art > Roee Rosen: Vile, Evil Veil at Rivington Place in London

Roee Rosen: Vile, Evil Veil at Rivington Place in London

By Caroline King - February 20, 2012Posted in : Art, Exhibition, FEATURED-STORIES

Roee Rosen: Vile, Evil Veil at Rivington Place When: 21st March – 5th May 2012

Where: Rivington Place, London, EC2A 3BA

£: Free

What is it?

Iniva (Institute of International Visual Arts) presents the first UK solo exhibition of Israeli artist, writer and filmmaker Roee Rosen with Vile, Evil Veil.  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 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.

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.

Roee Rosen: Vile, Evil Veil at Rivington Place

Rosen’s award winning film Out (Tse) 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.

More info: www.rivingtonplace.org

Tagged With: Evil Veil, Iniva (Institute of International Visual Arts), London, London events, Rivington Place, Roee Rosen, Roee Rosen: Vile

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