Bart Dorsa (born 1967) is an American artist, photographer, film-maker. Dorsa works in an old photographic technique (

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). Dorsa's notable exhibitions have been at the

Venice Biennale The Venice Biennale (; it, La Biennale di Venezia) is an international cultural exhibition hosted annually in Venice, Italy by the Biennale Foundation. The biennale has been organised every year since 1895, which makes it the oldest of ...

and

Moscow Museum of Modern Art The Moscow Museum of Modern Art is a museum of modern and contemporary art located in Moscow, Russia. It was opened to public in December 1999. The project of the museum was initiated and executed by Zurab Tsereteli, president of the Russian Aca ...

. In 2011 Dorsa pedaled his Flaming Duck kinetic sculpture around the city of Moscow.

Early life

Dorsa was born in

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to Frank and Marilyn Dorsa, and is the grandson of

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Sr the inventor of the

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Career

Dorsa began his career in visual arts as an independent filmmaker, but later moved to photography and sculpture. In May and June 2011 Dorsa pedaled his Flaming Duck kinetic sculpture for 6 weeks around the city of

Moscow Moscow ( , US chiefly ; rus, links=no, Москва, r=Moskva, p=mɐskˈva, a=Москва.ogg) is the capital and largest city of Russia. The city stands on the Moskva River in Central Russia, with a population estimated at 13.0 million ...

at times shooting fire as high as 50 feet into the air. Dorsa conceived the Duck as a present for his father's 69th birthday.

Art

For almost 10 years now Bart Dorsa has been living in Moscow and working with various photographic techniques creating images that are experimental, emotional and have consistently challenged conventional notions of beauty. Dorsa studies

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technique in Europe and later experimented a lot with different cameras, lenses, and hand-made emulsions. To achieve the desired effect, Dorsa gradually removed all excess elements, until at some point he destroyed the camera and began shooting with only a lens and a

camera obscura A camera obscura (; ) is a darkened room with a aperture, small hole or lens at one side through which an image is 3D projection, projected onto a wall or table opposite the hole. ''Camera obscura'' can also refer to analogous constructions su ...

. Bart Dorsa has transformed traditional exhibition locations into spaces that create a context of mystery and emotion, covering the spaces in fabric and building unique 'sanctuary' space-within-space structures.

Exhibitions

*May 2015 - November 2015 part of

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Gotika Exhibition, Collateral Event of the 56th

, *May 2013 - September 2013 "Katya" within Collateral Events of the 55th

*May 2011 "Against The Sun",

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, Moscow *November 2009 "Deep Inside My Doll House", Moscow Museum of Modern Art *April 2009 "Silver Tongue Devil", Pobeda Gallery, Moscow

Filmography

*1999 - ''The Invisibles'' (executive producer) *1999 - ''Here Lies Lonely'' (director) *2001 - ''

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'' (actor)

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Dorsa, Bart American photographers Living people 1967 births