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Article: Family romance: IKEA sets the stage for Israeli artist Guy Ben-Ner's household politics.
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- C: International Contemporary Art
- Article date:
- December 22, 2007
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Guy Ben-Ner first achieved prominence on the international stage with his sculpture and video Treebouse Kit (2005), his contribution as Israel's representative at the 51st Venice Biennale. Sporting a chunky beard that recalls both those of the Orthodox Jewish settlers who were that summer being forcibly displaced from the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, and those of the wild men of myth and legend who live outside civilization and such frivolities as personal hygiene, Ben-Ner set about dismantling a "tree" into its constituent parts: pieces of mass-produced, modular furniture like those from IKEA (it even requires an Allen key to put it ...
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