Roee Rosen (b. Rehovot, Israel, 1963; lives and works in Tel Aviv) is an artist, writer,and filmmaker. His critical and satirical reflections bring a humorous psychoanalyticalapproach to bear on the study of desire and structural violence. Rosen intertwinescontemporary Israeli and international politics with references to European andJewish history. Mustering a broad range of fictional characters, iconographic motifs,and coded symbols, he repeatedly adapts and transforms the canon of the historicalavant-garde and transgressive traditions from Marquis de Sade to Georges Bataille. Popular media, political propaganda, and classic children's fairy tales are also amongthe sources Rosen taps into. The Standard Edition features a series of book covers--all of them promises, fantasies, and decoys. The titles are based on the famous edition of the works of Sigmund Freud(released by the Hogarth Press between 1953 and 1974). Freud's name and the titlesof his writings are replaced by the artist's and alternative headings; each of the original24 volumes in the series comes in two versions: a typographic and an illustrated one.With an introduction by Krzysztof Kościuczuk and Christoph Platz-Gallus
