Talk with the artist, producer and director who represented Israel in 1994 for the Oscar.
The work of Enrique Rottenberg researches about the relationship between the individuality and the masses, the roles or power and leadership, displaying unexpected metaphors and links to social history, playing with absurdity and irony to create shocking images that attract and disgust the spectators at the same time.
Enrique Rottenberg was born in Argentina in 1948, to Jewish parents of Polish descent, he emigrated alone to Israel at the age of 13. After serving in the Israeli army, he developed a successful real estate business, while at the same time, beginning in 1980, he starts producing films and studies at the Camera Obscura School of Tel Aviv. He was the director and screenwriter of the film Revenge of Itzik Finkelstein, which won 7 awards from the Israeli Film Academy (including Best Film, Best Director and Best Screenplay) and represented Israel in 1994 for the Oscar. In 1993, he arrived to Cuba where he currently lives. In Cuba he began his photographic work and installations. He collaborates with the new cultural project “Cuban Art Factory” (Fábrica de Arte Cubano), promoting the development of contemporary photography and visual arts in Cuba.
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