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tamas dezso The Dignity Of Isolation August 2, 2011 - September 25, 2011 Slideshow and opening talk with Tamas Dezso artist statement: Pressing ahead towards a united Europe, Romania began breaking down its physical and intellectual barriers, while tiny enclaves of human communities remained lying deep in its timeless corners. The historic will aimed to shorten a physical and intellectual distance, while these micro-communities continued to live their austere, disciplined lives by keeping to their ancient traditions and adjusting to the severity of nature’s laws. When Romania was generally preparing for change during the years preceding its 2007 accession to the European Union, in the regions sentenced to remain unchanged I was able to witness the eternal power of food shared together, a haystack piled up together and the existential reality of an animal driven home together – how deeply rooted the community of fate is where the joint salvage of a flooded house, life shared in a single room and bidding a communal farewell to the dead represent bonds of affinity woven with resolute integrity. The images document the invisible moments of a country today referred to as a member state in official EU diplomat-speak and as “the tattered and fantastic land of hope” by the Hungarian writer Péter Esterházy. Tamas Dezso's BIO: Tamas Dezso was born in 1978 in Budapest, Hungary, where he has lived all his life. He went to Budapest University of Technology to study engineering and quickly realized it wasn’t for him, so switched to taking pictures in 2001. The recipient of many awards, his most recent is First Place in the Project Competition category of the 2011 Center Awards. “The Dignity of Isolation,” will be the first solo exhibition in New York of Dezso’s Romania work.
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The Half King photography series is curated by James Price and Anna Van Lenten |
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Previous exhibitions at The Half King
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