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What´s OnCurrent ExhibitionGuy Ben-NerFlying Lessons 28 November 2009 – 14 February 2010
![]() If only it was as easy to banish hunger by rubbing your belly as it is to masturbate, 2009, HD-Video, Still Plane, © Guy Ben-Ner 2009
The Edith Russ Site for Media Art presents the first German solo exhibition of Israeli artist Guy Ben-Ner, who became well-known when he represented his country at the 2005 Venice Biennale and when he participated in the 2007 Münster Sculpture Projects, among things. Since 1999, his video works have attested to the great diversity of subject matter in his work. ![]() Berkeley´s Island, 1999, Video, 15 min., Still Fire, © Guy Ben-Ner 1999 His children are involved (Berkeley’s Island, 1999, Moby Dick, 2000, I’d give it to you if I could, but I borrowed it, 2005–07) and sometimes his wife also plays the role of wife and mother (Stealing Beauty, 2007). Since in seemingly spontaneous, documentary moments, all portrayals of the artist and his family turn out to be artificially constructed performances. Ben-Ner ironizes all preconceived notions about roles. ![]() Moby Dick, 2000, Video, 12:35 min., Still Chicken, © Guy Ben-Ner 2000
![]() Second Nature, 2008, Video, 17:20 min., Still Vogeltrainerin, © Guy Ben-Ner 2008 The many references to film classics and especially to important literary works are not lastly indicative of this. Second Nature, 2008, is a rendition of Aesop´s respectively Jean de La Fontaine’s fable The Raven and the Fox with two animal trainers and their raven and fox, which in the course of the film becomes a performance of Beckett’s Waiting for Godot. In If only it was as easy to banish hunger by rubbing the belly as it is to masturbate, 2009, Ben-Ner and his film partner cite or adapt material, including from Don Quixote, The Little Prince, Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There, Around the World in Eighty Days, Waiting for Godot and the Divine Comedy. The story itself is an absurd form of a road and buddy movie.
![]() Stealing Beauty, 2007, Video, 17:40 min., Videostill, © Guy Ben-Ner 2007 Ben-Ner’s films take place in funny settings. For Stealing Beauty the entire family secretly made itself at home in various Ikea stores. But viewers (and Ikea customers) gag on their own laughter when the artist and his family praise the egoistic and excessive materialism that solely equates the value of a person with their possessions.
Events
Friday, 27 November 2009, 8 p.m.We would like to invite you and your friends to join us Thursday, 3 December 2009, 4-6 p.m.Media Education Lounge
Thursday, 10 December 2009, 5-8 p.m.Late Opening hours with guided tour at 6 p.m.
Thursday, 14 January 2010, 5-8 p.m.Late Opening hours with guided tour at 6 p.m.
Thursday, 14 January 2010, 8 p.m.Artist´s talk with Guy Ben-Ner
Freitag, 22. Januar 2010, 7 p.m.Reception on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the Edith Russ Site for Media Art Montag, 25. Januar 2010, 9 a.m. - 4 p.m.Big sister is watching you.
(Foto-) and video workshop for educators Thursday, 11 February 2010, 5-8 p.m.Late Opening hours with guided tour at 6 p.m.
Press interviews by appointment.
The exhibtion is kindly supported by:
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