Tumblr (3.0; @roeerosen)http://roeerosen.com/<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/ca64d65f843d235e441eda61ee570bae/tumblr_mjuxubGd2e1rnq2x4o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><em>Maxim Komar-Myshkin’s Vladimir’s Night</em>, a one person exhibition at the Rosenfeld Gallery, Tel Aviv, opening April 29th, 2013</p>http://roeerosen.com/post/45670254889http://roeerosen.com/post/45670254889Mon, 18 Mar 2013 15:08:00 +0200home pagexl<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1e90kDVBl1rnq2x4o1_500.jpg"/><br/> Rosen, INIVA 01<br/><br/> <img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1e90kDVBl1rnq2x4o2_500.jpg"/><br/> Rosen, INIVA 02<br/><br/> <img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1e90kDVBl1rnq2x4o3_500.jpg"/><br/> Rosen, INIVA 03<br/><br/> <div> <div> <div> <p>Roee Rosen, <em>Vile, Evil Veil</em>, INIVA, Rivington Place Storefront, installation views, London, 2012</p> </div> </div> </div>http://roeerosen.com/post/19834552213http://roeerosen.com/post/19834552213Sat, 24 Mar 2012 10:00:00 +0200xlOther Works I<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1e9drSot01rnq2x4o1_500.jpg"/><br/> Rosen, INIVA 04<br/><br/> <img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1e9drSot01rnq2x4o2_500.jpg"/><br/> Rosen, INIVA 05<br/><br/> <img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1e9drSot01rnq2x4o3_500.jpg"/><br/> Rosen, INIVA 06<br/><br/> <div> <div> <div> <div> <p>Roee Rosen, <em>Vile, Evil Veil</em>, INIVA, Rivington Place Storefront, installation views, London, 2012</p> </div> </div> </div> </div>http://roeerosen.com/post/19834873307http://roeerosen.com/post/19834873307Sat, 24 Mar 2012 09:00:00 +0200xlOther Works I<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1e9ixdygT1rnq2x4o1_500.jpg"/><br/> Rosen, INIVA 07<br/><br/> <img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1e9ixdygT1rnq2x4o2_500.jpg"/><br/> Rosen, INIVA 08<br/><br/> <div> <div> <p>Roee Rosen, <em>Vile, Evil Veil</em>, INIVA, Rivington Place Storefront, installation views, London, 2012</p> </div> </div>http://roeerosen.com/post/19834998815http://roeerosen.com/post/19834998815Sat, 24 Mar 2012 08:00:00 +0200xlOther Works I<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m0lax1oGhS1rnq2x4o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Roee Rosen,<em> Live and Die as Eva Braun # 69</em>, 2012 (one of five new pieces added to the mid 90s project, and used for the making of a storefront piece for INIVA, Rivington Place, London)</p>http://roeerosen.com/post/18970683724http://roeerosen.com/post/18970683724Fri, 09 Mar 2012 01:36:00 +0200Live and Die as Eva Braun<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzz1ancwvJ1rnq2x4o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Roee Rosen, <em>Double Self Portrait</em>, 2005</p>http://roeerosen.com/post/18276639447http://roeerosen.com/post/18276639447Sun, 26 Feb 2012 01:01:00 +0200xlOther Works II<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lyv4mgFUnW1rnq2x4o1_r1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Roee Rosen, <em>Edible Philippine Workers</em>, 2007</p>http://roeerosen.com/post/17023647383http://roeerosen.com/post/17023647383Sat, 04 Feb 2012 11:49:00 +0200<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ly66vyTxKB1rnq2x4o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><span>Anonymous photographer, Justine Frank, Paris, ca. 1928</span></p>http://roeerosen.com/post/16251091966http://roeerosen.com/post/16251091966Sun, 22 Jan 2012 00:38:22 +0200Justine Frank<p><strong><a href="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/28880221/pdfs/On%20Komar-Myshkin%27s%20Vladimir%27s%20Night.pdf" target="_blank">Vengeful Animism, On Maxim Komar-Myshkin&#8217;s <em>Vladimir&#8217;s Night </em>(PDF)</a></strong></p> <p><strong><a href="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/28880221/pdfs/Russian%20Vladimir%27s%20Night.pdf" target="_blank">Vladimir&#8217;s Night by M. Komar-Myshkin, The Poem in Russian (PDF)</a></strong></p> <p><strong><a href="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/28880221/pdfs/Vladimir%27s%20Night.pdf" target="_blank">Vladimir&#8217;s Night by M. Komar-Myshkin, The Poem in English (PDF)</a></strong></p>http://roeerosen.com/post/15822942768http://roeerosen.com/post/15822942768Tue, 17 Jan 2012 11:00:00 +0200Vladimir's NightWritings by RR<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxwdu82txj1rnq2x4o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><em>Out</em>, still from the video, 2010</p>http://roeerosen.com/post/15948112157http://roeerosen.com/post/15948112157Mon, 16 Jan 2012 17:32:00 +0200Outxl<iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/45514307" width="400" height="300" frameborder="0"></iframe><br/><br/><p><strong>Roee Rosen, <em>Out (Tse)</em>, 34:30 minutes, 2010</strong></p>http://roeerosen.com/post/26916831845http://roeerosen.com/post/26916831845Mon, 16 Jan 2012 17:30:00 +0200outvideos<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxsd1p56cU1rnq2x4o1_r1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><p class="p1"><em><br/></em></p></p>http://roeerosen.com/post/15822669856http://roeerosen.com/post/15822669856Mon, 16 Jan 2012 12:00:00 +0200Vladimir's Night<p><strong>2011-2012</strong></p> <p><span>Maxim Komar-Myshkin’s <em>Vladimir’s Night </em>is a hybrid of a children book, an exceedingly gory martyrdom and, perhaps, a twisted political treatise. Here, Vladimir (Putin, although the name is never mentioned), is both a little child and a political leader vacating in his summer mansion. Before falling asleep he is joined in bed by numerous animated objects. What begins as merry frolicking soon turns violent; Vladimir is molested, tortured and finally murdered by them.</span> </p> <p><span>Komar-Myshkin was the pseudonym of the fictive Russian poet Efim Poplavsky (1978-2011), who immigrated to Tel Aviv in the early 2000’s. Suffering from acute paranoia, Poplavsky believed that Putin had a personal vendetta against him, and that his assassination was pertinent. The album, an artistic revenge of sorts, was created in secrecy and discovered after Poplavsky committed suicide.</span></p> <p><span><em>Vladimir’s Night</em> continues both the tradition of Russian illustrated books and that of the albums created by Moscow’s unofficial artists of the 1970s, such as Kabakov and Pivovarov. It also contains a plethora of allusions and references, disclosing, perhaps, its author’s conspiratorial perception. The publication and exhibition of the work will thus be accompanied not only by an English translation of the poem, but by an expansive annotation that will also narrate Poplavsky’s short life.</span></p>http://roeerosen.com/post/15822344008http://roeerosen.com/post/15822344008Sun, 15 Jan 2012 13:05:00 +0200Vladimir's Night<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/f934d46d191213db166cdef9f72cfc1a/tumblr_mjwarli6iT1rnq2x4o1_r1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><strong>1</strong></p> <p><strong>Vladimir is at his summer mansion.<br/></strong><strong>He is having dinner.</strong></p> <p>Maxim Komar-Myshkin, Vladimir’s Night # 1</p>http://roeerosen.com/post/45741580659http://roeerosen.com/post/45741580659Sat, 14 Jan 2012 23:55:00 +0200Vladimir's Nightxl<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/006ced8f966bef6727b5084bfe35af3d/tumblr_mjwbkaMrfy1rnq2x4o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><strong>2</strong></p> <p><strong>With Vladimir is his best girlfriend.<br/></strong><strong>She loves him so much that she serves the meal dressed as a dog.</strong></p> <p>Maxim Komar-Myshkin, <em>Vladimir’s Night # 2</em></p>http://roeerosen.com/post/45742167661http://roeerosen.com/post/45742167661Sat, 14 Jan 2012 23:52:00 +0200Vladimir's Nightxl<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lygeazHecH1rnq2x4o1_500.jpg"/><br/> Roee Rose, Vladimir's Night 18<br/><br/> <img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lygeazHecH1rnq2x4o2_400.jpg"/><br/> Birobidzhan<br/><br/> <img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lygeazHecH1rnq2x4o3_500.jpg"/><br/> Red October Cookies<br/><br/> <p><strong>Top:<br/></strong><strong>Things begin to enter Vladimir’s face.<br/></strong><strong>He tries to call his mother, but she is dead.</strong></p> <p>Roee Rosen,<em> Vladimir’s Night</em>, number 18, 2012</p> <p><br/><strong>Bottom</strong>: the coat of arms of Birobidzhan, the Jewish oblast established by Stalin; Aleksander Rodchenko and Vladimir Mayakovsky, a poster advertising Red October cookies, 1923  </p>http://roeerosen.com/post/16573316381http://roeerosen.com/post/16573316381Sat, 14 Jan 2012 22:50:00 +0200Vladimir's Nightxl<p>Video, 34 minutes, 2010</p> <p><span><em>Out</em> presents a domination/ submission scene set in a mundane living room. The increasing pain prompts the sub to spew out not only cries of pleasure and pain, but also sentences. The scene thus connotes both confessions under torture, and rituals of </span><span>exorcism, even as it remains a documentation of willful pleasure, being that both participants are not actresses, but members of the Israeli BDSM community.</span>The demon who speaks through the sub, is and isn’t herself. In fact, the sentences are all quotes of Israel’s minister of foreign affairs, Avigdor Lieberman, one of the most extreme right wing politicians in Israel. </p> <p><span>The ritual is framed by two scenes. A preceding interview with the two participants seems at the beginning to be a straightforward documentary, but transforms into an exposition of the narrative premise by which one is possessed, the other an exorcist. The final musical scene is a song set to the words of the Russian poet Esenin’s <em>Letter to Mother</em>. Executed as a one-shot, the song is a direct, if twisted, homage to the final scene of another film that deals with radical sexuality and politics: Dusan Makavejev’s <em>WR, The Mystery of the Organism.</em></span></p> <p><span><strong>Awards:</strong><br/></span>Orizzonti award, best medium-length film, The 67^th Venice Film Festival<br/>ARTE Award for best European film, Oberhausen Kurzfilmtage<br/>First prize, Bucharest International Experimental Film Festival<br/>Official nomination for the European Academy Awards, Sarajevo Film Festival<br/>Special mention, CPH:DOX</p>http://roeerosen.com/post/15824184660http://roeerosen.com/post/15824184660Sat, 14 Jan 2012 14:50:00 +0200Out<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m9zfyjRX0q1rnq2x4o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><strong>23<br/></strong><strong>Now that the dog is dead,<br/></strong><strong>The little pitchfork wants to be Vladimir’s best friend.<br/></strong><strong>He shoves his head between the boy’s buttocks and explores:<br/></strong><strong>Such big cucumbers they sell these days in stores!</strong></p> <p><strong><br/></strong>Maxim Komar-Myshkin, <em>Vladimir’s Night # 23</em></p>http://roeerosen.com/post/31056172513http://roeerosen.com/post/31056172513Fri, 13 Jan 2012 22:55:00 +0200Vladimir's Nightxl<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxwdnqyp0b1rnq2x4o1_500.jpg"/><br/> Roee Rosen, Out, 2010 <br/><br/> <img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxwdnqyp0b1rnq2x4o2_500.jpg"/><br/> Roee Rosen, Out, 2010 <br/><br/> <img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxwdnqyp0b1rnq2x4o3_500.jpg"/><br/> Roee Rosen, Out, 2010 <br/><br/> <img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxwdnqyp0b1rnq2x4o4_500.jpg"/><br/> Roee Rosen, Out, 2010 <br/><br/> <div> <div> <div> <p><em>Out</em>, stills from the video, 2010</p> </div> </div> </div>http://roeerosen.com/post/15947968296http://roeerosen.com/post/15947968296Fri, 13 Jan 2012 17:28:00 +0200Outxl<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxwe40hb9A1rnq2x4o1_500.jpg"/><br/> Roee Rosen, Out, 2010 <br/><br/> <img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxwe40hb9A1rnq2x4o2_500.jpg"/><br/> Roee Rosen, Out, 2010<br/><br/> <img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxwe40hb9A1rnq2x4o3_500.jpg"/><br/> Roee Rosen, Out, 2010<br/><br/> <img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxwe40hb9A1rnq2x4o4_500.jpg"/><br/> Roee Rosen, Out, 2010<br/><br/> <div> <div> <p><em>Out</em>, stills from the video, 2010</p> </div> </div>http://roeerosen.com/post/15948336946http://roeerosen.com/post/15948336946Fri, 13 Jan 2012 16:28:00 +0200Outxl