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Guy Ben-Ner

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Postmasters Gallery
459 W. 19th St., New York, NY 10011 40.744771 -74.004761
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    Gallery Exhibits, Multimedia/Installation, Postwar/Contemporary

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With his wife and kids in tow, Israeli video artist Guy Ben-Ner set up shop (sans permission) in various New York, Berlin, and Tel Aviv Ikea showrooms, filming a preachy postmodern take on Father Knows Best. He lectures his kids on the value of family and love, and his wife accuses him of masturbating in the shower—surrounded by price-tag-laden furniture and the occasional confused bargain shopper creeping into the shot. The result, Stealing Beauty, is one of two recent films showing here. The other is based on his much-praised Skulptur Projekte Munster Installation, I’d Give It to You If I Could But I Borrowed It, in which Ben-Ner rigged stationary bicycles with video players controlled by the pedaler’s speed and forward/backward motions.

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