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Ciprian, the Bear Dancer (Salatruc, East Romania)
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Ciprian, the Bear Dancer (Salatruc, East Romania)

Artist Tamas Dezso (Hungarian, born 1978)
Date2013
MediumChromogenic print
DimensionsImage and sheet: 31 5/8 × 39 5/8 inches (80.33 × 100.65 cm)
Framed (gallery): 33 × 41 × 1 3/4 inches (83.82 × 104.14 × 4.45 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: acquired through the generosity of the Photography Society
Object number2014.5.1
SignedOn frame backing board, lower right corner, white label, typed with signature in blue pen.
Inscribed“Tamas Dezso / Ciprian, the Bear Dancer / (near Salatruc, East Romania), 2013 / chromogenic print / 32 x 40 in. / #2/9, from an edition of 9 plus 2 APs / [signature]”
Markingsnone
Edition/State/Proofed. 2/9 + 2 APs
On View
Not on view
Collections
DescriptionImage of boy inside a bear skin.Exhibition History
Rotation 27. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, August 23, 2019–February 2, 2020, no cat.
Gallery Label
Tamas Dezso photographs the disappearing worlds in his home country of Hungary and neighboring Romania. Following the fall of communism in the 1980s, the massive cultural shift toward democracy left a countryside littered with closed factories and sparsely populated towns. Dezso documents people on the outskirts of society that struggle to keep traditions, such as bear dancing, alive. He notes: “The story has two threads: documenting the remains of enforced industrialization and disappearing traditions in villages losing their inhabitants due to migration to the cities.”
Provenance
With Robert Koch Gallery, New York, New York by 2014;
Purchased from them by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2014.
Copyright© Tamas Dezso
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