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<artist>
  <created-at type="datetime">2008-07-17T19:52:29+02:00</created-at>
  <id type="integer">478</id>
  <name>Roee Rosen</name>
  <origin>1963, Rehovot, IL
Lives in Tel Aviv, IL
</origin>
  <text-de>In Israel ist Roee Rosen nicht nur als virtuoser Maler, sondern auch als Romanautor, Intellektueller und Dozent bekannt. In seinen Arbeiten spiegelt sich diese hybride Qualit&#228;t. So erfindet er Malerei als Teil eines konzeptuellen, oft narrativen Rahmens neu und produziert B&#252;cher, die sich jeglicher Klassifikation entziehen. The Confessions of Roee Rosen beginnt mit der Ank&#252;ndigung des K&#252;nstlers, dass er bald sterben werde. Er verleugnet eine Karriere voller L&#252;gen, Skandale und erfundener Identit&#228;ten. Dabei werden seine Beichtmonologe von drei Stellvertreterinnen &#8211; allesamt Gastarbeiterinnen in Israel &#8211; in Hebr&#228;isch vorgetragen, einer Sprache derer sie nicht m&#228;chtig sind. Die Monologe basieren auf Rosens Leben, sind aber gleichzeitig auch als potentielle Aussagen der Arbeitsmigratinnen glaubhaft. Sie handeln von brisanten Themen wie der ausbeuterischen Darstellung des Holocausts oder skatologischen Fantasien. Das Eigent&#252;mliche des Sprechakts besteht im Unverst&#228;ndnis des Gesagten durch die Rednerinnen. Im Rahmen der Manifesta 7 sind weiterhin drei Bilderzyklen Roee Rosens zu sehen. Seine Martyr Paintings arbeiten nachdr&#252;cklich mit einem breiten Spektrum stilistischer Zitate, und beleuchten damit die zwielichtige Zone zwischen Glauben und Mythos, Hagiographie und Pornographie. In Professionals hingegen greift er ein eigenes Kindheitsfoto auf, um die potentiell unendliche Bandbreite an m&#246;glichen beruflichen Rollen aufzuzeigen. Die Frosted Self-Portraits geben den K&#252;nstler entweder als ein St&#252;ck Schokolade oder ein St&#252;ck Schei&#223;e wieder (Dalis Anspruch folgend, Sch&#246;nheit solle essbar sein).
</text-de>
  <text-en>In Israel, Roee Rosen is known not only as a virtuoso painter but also as a novelist, intellectual and teacher. His work reflects this hybrid quality, reinventing painting as part of a conceptual, often narrative, framework and producing books that elude classification.

The Confessions of Roee Rosen begins with the artist&#8217;s announcement that he is about to die. He disavows a career replete with lies, scandals, and fake identities. However, his confession are delivered by three surrogates &#8211; all foreign female workers residing in Israel &#8211; who deliver the monologues in Hebrew, a language they do not speak. Their monologues are based on Rosen&#8217;s life but are simultaneously plausible as statements a foreign worker might make. Tackling such charged themes as the exploitative representation of the Holocaust or scatological fantasies, the confessions constitute a peculiar speech act in which the speakers ignore what they say.

Three series of Rosen&#8217;s paintings are also on display at Manifesta 7. Martyr Paintings pursue an emphatically broad spectrum of stylistic quotations to suggest a twilight zone between faith and myth, hagiography and pornography. Professionals use the same perverted childhood photo of the artist to depict a potentially infinite range of professional roles. Frosted Self-Portraits render the artist as either a piece of chocolate or a piece of shit (following Dali&#8217;s claim that beauty should be edible).
</text-en>
  <text-it>In Israele Roee Rosen &#232; conosciuto non solo come eccellente pittore ma anche come scrittore, intellettuale e insegnante. Le sue opere riflettono una qualit&#224; ibrida nella reinvenzione della pittura come parte di una cornice concettuale, spesso narrativa, e nella produzione di libri che sfuggono da qualsiasi classificazione. 

The Confessions of Roee Rosen iniziano con l&#8217;artista che annuncia la sua morte imminente e rinnega una carriera piena di bugie, scandali e false identit&#224;. Le sue confessioni, comunque, giungono attraverso tre portavoce &#8211; tre lavoratrici straniere che risiedono in Israele &#8211; che recitano tre monologhi in ebraico, una lingua che non conoscono. I monologhi sono basati sulla vita di Rosen ma risuonano al contempo plausibili come dichiarazioni che gli stessi lavoratori stranieri potrebbero fare. Affrontando temi forti, come lo &#8220;sfruttamento&#8221; delle vicende legate all&#8217;Olocausto fino a fantasie scatologiche, le confessioni diventano discorsi dei quali gli oratori ignorano il significato.

Vengono anche presentate tre serie di dipinti di Rosen. Nei Martyr Paintings un&#8217;ampia gamma di citazioni stilistiche rimanda al cono d&#8217;ombra tra fede e mito, agiografia e pornografia. In Professionals invece, la stessa foto dell&#8217;artista da bambino viene di volta in volta modificata e utilizzata per rappresentare una serie potenzialmente infinita di professionalit&#224;. Infine i Frosted Self-Portraits che raffigurano l&#8217;artista simile alla cioccolata o a un escremento (sulla scia di Dal&#237; secondo cui la bellezza dovrebbe essere commestibile).
</text-it>
  <title-of-work>The Confessions of Roee Rosen, 2008
HD Video, 56&#8217;30&#8221;
Confessions Coming Soon, 2007
HD Video, 8&#8217; 40&#8217;&#8217;
Frosted Self-Portraits, 2004&#8211;2006
Gouache on paper, 50 &#215; 32.5 cm
Professionals, 1994&#8211;1996
Oil on paper, 100 &#215; 66 cm
Martyr Paintings, 1991&#8211;1994
Oil on paper, acrylic, pastel, and spray paint on paper, 75 &#215; 57.5 cm
</title-of-work>
  <updated-at type="datetime">2008-07-17T19:52:29+02:00</updated-at>
</artist>
