February 12th to March 6th, 2010

Family Tree
Tal Rosner

Tenderpixel Gallery is pleased to present the first solo London exhibition Family Tree by BAFTA award winning video artist Tal Rosner.

Family Tree is a seven channel video installation, where a display of family photographs is transformed into a digital wall of pulsating rhythms and bundled/scattered flashbacks. Family Tree deals with personal recollections and the perception of memory re-learnt, interlacing performance and moving image. The installation synthesizes a microcosm of relationships between the abstract and the real, pieces of land and body-parts, interiors and exteriors, colours and shapes.
Combining synced monitors, and projectors, Rosner creates a double-layer of image perception: one coming from within the screens and another via projector juxtaposed on top. Exploring and widening the possibilities of combining these existing forms of technology, the show elevates them to a new, unique and highly kinetic level of co-existence.
The installation is produced by B&W Films Ltd (Rosa Bosch & James Pout) with the support of Patron Jenny Hall and Arcadi, and features a poem by Rozalie Hirs (from: "Charm", Amsterdam, Querido, 2008).

Tal Rosner was born in 1978 in Jerusalem, and lives and works between London and Los Angeles. He obtained a MA in Graphic Design from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in 2005. Influenced by modernism, abstraction and architecture, Rosner is determined to turn slow-paced video art on its head, creating dynamic, ever changing motion graphics art. Recent work video by Rosner includes the BAFTA award winning title sequence for the first Skins TV series (2007), and Without You (2008-2009), a video for Animate Projects that has screened at over 25 festivals and events worldwide. In Seven Days (2009-2011), a collaboration with Thomas Ades, originally commissioned by the London Sinfonietta and the Los Angeles Philharmonic association, has premiered at London's Royal Festival Hall, and in the US at Walt Disney Concert Hall. In Seven Days has also traveled to Amsterdam (Muziegebouw), Stockholm (Konserthus) and Zurich (Tonhalle), continuing a three-year world tor it will also be projected and peroformed in New York (NY Philharmonic), Cologne, Lisbon and Melbourne in 2010/11. In addition to his 2007 Bafta, Rosner has also recently won the Jury Award in the London Film Festival under the Abstract Panorama category as well as the Cinephilia Award for Best Experimental Film at the London Short Film Festival. His work has been broadcast internationally by Canal + in France as well as other channels and territories. A retrospective was dedicated to Rosner's work at the Forum des Images in Paris, as part of the Nemo Festival in April 2009.

Video of Installation
Images of Gallery Installation
Design Week's profile of Tal Rosner



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