Histories - Photographs By Michal Rovner. Exhibition Catalogue

Description: STORIES / STORIES - Photographs by Michal Rovner. Exhibition catalog "At night, I wander through the deserted rooms of the Louvre Museum: Jordan, Syria, Palestine, the Levant, Mesopotamia, Egypt... Places and ages coexist within a few steps of each other. And suddenly I realize that I am in the heart of an unfathomable treasure - the footprints of civilization. "Michal Rovner" Stories... This is the title of Michal Rovner's exhibition at the Louvre, and none could, so deeply and rightly, resonate with the challenges of the museum. The museum is par excellence the place which summons History and stories. (..) Michal Rovner, an Israeli artist whose work has universal significance, questions, in this ambitious and magnificent project, archaeology, the past and the ever-burning present of the Middle East, the construction and destruction of vestiges and ruins. She chose to invest in three symbolic places which define for the Louvre a territory without geographical or temporal borders and which make it possible to bring together artists from neighboring nations, Israel and Palestine, for a monumental construction, combining the ancestral knowledge of the builders. "Henry LoyrettePublished on the occasion of an exhibition presented by the Louvre Museum, from May 19 to August 15, 2011.Photographed in the Cour Napoléon, in the Department of Oriental Antiquities and on the stone moats of the medieval Louvre, seven works - stone and video projection, stones and volcanic stones collected - from Michal ROVNER : Makom II, Makom IV, The restoration of the Louvre....128 photographs including 105 in color (photographers credited including the artist)Texts by David GROSSMAN and Marie-Laure BERNADACNotes by Michal ROVNER.List of works.Biographical landmarks (Tel-Aviv, 1957)Preface by Henri LOYRETTEIllustrated cardboard (Medieval Louvre series) Photographer(s): Michal Rovner Editor(s): Göttingen, Steidl Co-editor(s): Louvre editions Release date : 2011 Main language(s): FRENCH ENGLISH Dimensions: 24.5 x 29.5 cm. Number of pages : 160 ISBN: 978-3-86930-343-7 Bar code : 9783869303437 "At night, I wander through the deserted rooms of the Louvre Museum: Jordan, Syria, Palestine, the Levant, Mesopotamia, Egypt... Places and ages coexist within a few steps of each other. And suddenly I realize that I am in the heart of an unfathomable treasure - the footprints of civilization. " (..) Michal Rovner, an Israeli artist whose work has universal significance, questions, in this ambitious and magnificent project, archaeology, the past and the ever-burning present of the Middle East, the construction and destruction of vestiges and ruins. She chose to invest in three symbolic places which define for the Louvre a territory without geographical or temporal borders and which make it possible to bring together artists from neighboring nations, Israel and Palestine, for a monumenta

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