{"product_id":"16957-roman-bezjak","title":"Roman Bezjak","description":"\u003cSPAN lang=EN\u003e\u003cSPAN style=\"FONT-FAMILY: TheSans\"\u003e\n\u003cP class=Standa style=\"MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt\"\u003e\u003cSPAN lang=EN-US style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10.5pt; FONT-FAMILY: TheSans\"\u003eWhereas the West encounters the now-fossilized witnesses of planned economies and socialist modernism with skepticism, Roman Bezjak (*1962 in Slovenia) takes an impartial view of communist architecture. After producing prizewinning photo essays for \u003cI style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal\"\u003eGEO\u003c\/I\u003e and the \u003cI style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal\"\u003eFrankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung,\u003c\/I\u003e for the past five years the artist has concentrated on traveling through eastern and southeastern Europe.\u003c\/SPAN\u003e\u003cA name=_GoBack\u003e\u003c\/A\u003e\u003cSPAN lang=EN-US style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10.5pt; FONT-FAMILY: TheSans; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial\"\u003e \u003c\/SPAN\u003e\u003cSPAN lang=EN-US style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10.5pt; FONT-FAMILY: TheSans; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-language: DE\"\u003eBezjak used a large-format camera to take photographs of residential buildings, institutions, hotels, and palaces of culture in familiar and foreign places—from Tallinn and Tirana to Dresden and \u003c\/SPAN\u003e\u003cSPAN lang=EN-US style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10.5pt; FONT-FAMILY: TheSans; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold\"\u003eDnipropetrovsk\u003c\/SPAN\u003e\u003cSPAN lang=EN-US style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10.5pt; FONT-FAMILY: TheSans; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-language: DE\"\u003e. His series render a kind of archaeology of postwar modernism without nostalgically glorifying the former East Bloc, for he also makes visible the exploitation of utopia and its entry into everyday life. This publication thus captures a world threatened by demolition, parts of which—such as the Palace of the Republic in Berlin—no longer exist.\u003c?xml:namespace prefix = \"o\" ns = \"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office\" \/\u003e\u003co:p\u003e\u003c\/o:p\u003e\u003c\/SPAN\u003e\u003c\/P\u003e\n\u003cP class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt\"\u003e\u003c\/SPAN\u003e\u003cSPAN style=\"FONT-FAMILY: TheSans\"\u003e\u003co:p\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c\/o:p\u003e\u003c\/SPAN\u003e\u003c\/P\u003e\n\u003cP class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt\"\u003e\u003cSPAN style=\"FONT-FAMILY: TheSans\"\u003eExhibition schedule: Sprengel Museum Hannover, June 22–October 16, 2011 | Robert Morat Gallery, Hamburg, January 21–March 17, 2012\u003c\/SPAN\u003e\u003c\/SPAN\u003e\u003c\/P\u003e\n","brand":"Hatje Cantz Verlag","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44874880778504,"sku":"9783775731881","price":19.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0582\/8948\/8049\/files\/odoo_9783775731881_2e799c80-a5a8-4c00-ab74-3f6df3d30839.jpg?v=1744130853","url":"https:\/\/www.hatjecantz.de\/en\/products\/16957-roman-bezjak","provider":"Hatje Cantz Verlag","version":"1.0","type":"link"}