Makom II, 2007-2008, stone structure, 142 x 197 x 197 inches

Michal Rovner
Rovner’s extraordinary works, created in her studios in both Israel and New York, have been the subject of over forty solo exhibitions. In 1978, with artist Arie Hammer, Rovner co-founded the Camera Obscura School of Art in Tel Aviv, the city’s first school for photographers. Rovner studied cinema, television, and philosophy at Tel Aviv University before earning a BFA in photography and art from the Bezalel Academy in 1985. In the early 1990s she worked with director Robert Frank on two films, One Hour-C’est Vrai (1990) and Last Supper (1992), which she helped write.

Rovner’s films have been screened internationally at several museums. Notes (2001), a collaboration with composer Philip Glass, was screened at the Lincoln Center Festival 2001 in New York and the Barbican Theater in London. Rovner's film Border (1997) premiered at New York’s Museum of Modern Art and received over a dozen subsequent screenings at major international venues. A Tel Aviv native, Rovner currently exhibits work in numerous permanent collections worldwide.

Friends of Bezalel recently had a private viewing of Rovner’s sculpture Makom II (pictured above) and were shown a video Rovner made about Makom and her work. A discussion with Rovner followed the video, and many Friends stayed into the evening hours to converse with the artist. View photos from the event.

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