Pace Gallery London have announced the opening of a major solo exhibition by internationally celebrated artist Michel Rovner. Both Pace London and Michal Rovner are currently working with Futurecity to deliver a visionary international art installation for Canary Wharf Crossrail Station. Scheduled to open in 2018, Rovner’s installation will fill the station’s elavator shafts, and, consistent with her other work, will channel the transitory nature of the space, featuring masses of people moving across the multi-panel work installation.
Pace London will present its first solo exhibition of the work of Michal Rovner. The exhibition Panorama will be staged at 6 Burlington Gardens from 29 April to 15 June 2015.
Since 2004, Pace New York has held four exhibitions of Rovner’s work, which included her renowned projections on stone and paper as well as several of her large-scale projections. In the last exhibition in New York, Topography, the artist unveiled her first multi-screen works using new LCD technology, specifically customized for her.
Michal Rovner’s (b. 1957, Israel) often works in the medium of site-specific video installation. Her filmic installations often engage elements of sculpture, photography, printmaking and drawing that coalesce to invest her work with a unique palimpsest form of animation. Rovner has been exhibited in over 60 solo exhibitions including a mid-career retrospective at the Whitney Museum of Art, the Israeli Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, the Jeu de Paume, and the Louvre.
In Panorama, Rovner’s evolved and articulated works continue to explore this medium. These large-scale, multi-screen works combine her signature human figures with the landscape elements she has been exploring for the last two years. The brooding soulful expression of the human and natural worlds is intertwined through the use of increasingly bold abstraction. Panorama evokes Rovner’s themes of human interaction, dislocation and the persistence of history, while creating a new level of immediacy by further removing the narrative to its barest and most urgent elements.
Image © 2015 Michal Rovner/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York