Bart Dorsa
{{Short description|American photographer}}
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[[File:Bart Dorsa, Katya Diptych 7.jpg|thumb|261x261px|Katya Diptych 7, Crossroads series, 2012,
Collodion and Silver Glass Photographic Plates,
Individual size 93 cm x 61,5 cm,
Courtesy Bart Dorsa
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Bart Dorsa (born 1967) is an American artist, photographer, film-maker. Dorsa works in an old photographic technique (Collodion process).{{cite web|last=Venezia|first=Anita|title=Message From Moscow|url=http://aliveeastbay.com/archives/november-2009/message-from-moscow/|work=Alive Magazine|accessdate=7 July 2013|date=8 November 2009|archive-date=10 September 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130910221635/http://aliveeastbay.com/archives/november-2009/message-from-moscow/|url-status=dead}} Dorsa's notable exhibitions have been at the Venice Biennale{{cite web|title=Collateral Events|url=http://www.labiennale.org/en/art/exhibition/collateral-events/|work=La Biennale di Venezia|accessdate=7 July 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130708210701/http://www.labiennale.org/en/art/exhibition/collateral-events/|archive-date=8 July 2013|url-status=dead}} and Moscow Museum of Modern Art.{{cite web|title=Bart Dorsa. Katya|url=http://www.mmoma.ru/en/exhibitions/special/venicebiennale2013_bart_dorsa_katya/|work=Moscow Museum of Modern Art|accessdate=7 July 2013}} In 2011 Dorsa pedaled his Flaming Duck kinetic sculpture around the city of Moscow.{{cite news|last=Lally|first=Kathy|title=Dorsa is daffy, yet makes Muscovites laugh — and think|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/dorsa-is-daffy-yet-makes-muscovites-laugh--and-think/2011/07/07/gIQAVShp7H_story.html|accessdate=7 July 2013|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=10 July 2011}}
Early life
Dorsa was born in California to Frank and Marilyn Dorsa, and is the grandson of Frank Dorsa Sr the inventor of the Eggo waffle.{{cite book|author=Sherri Liberman|title=American Food by the Decades|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sLSDQRV3XUMC&pg=PA134|year= 2011|publisher=ABC-CLIO|isbn=978-0-313-37698-6|page=134}}
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 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 wet plate 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. 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.Philippe Dagen. Dans un sanctuaire vénitien, icônes et reliques de sainte Katia. Le Monde, 2013.
Exhibitions
- May 2015 - November 2015 part of Glasstress{{cite web|title=Bart Dorsa - Artist - Glasstress 2015|url=https://www.hermitagemuseum.org/wps/portal/hermitage/what-s-on/temp_exh/2015/glasstress_gotika/?lng=en}} Gotika Exhibition, Collateral Event of the 56th Venice Biennale,{{cite web|title=Bart Dorsa - Artist - Glasstress 2015|url=http://glasstress.org/my-product/bart-dorsa/}}
- May 2013 - September 2013 "Katya"{{cite book|title=La Biennale di Venezia. 55ª Esposizione internazionale d'arte. Il Palazzo Enciclopedico (2 vol.)|date=2013|publisher=Marsilio|location=Venice, Italy|isbn=9788831715584|pages=204–205|edition=first}} within Collateral Events of the 55th Venice Biennale
- May 2011 "Against The Sun", Skolkovo Moscow School of Management, Moscow
- November 2009 "Deep Inside My Doll House", Moscow Museum of Modern Art{{cite web|title=Deep Inside My DollHouse|url=http://www.mmoma.ru/en/exhibitions/gogolevsky/deep_inside_my_dollhouse/|work=Moscow Museum of Modern Art|accessdate=7 July 2013}}
- April 2009 "Silver Tongue Devil", Pobeda Gallery, Moscow{{cite web|title=Silver Tongue Devil|url=http://www.mamm-mdf.ru/en/exhibitions/bart-dorsa-silver-tongue-devil/|accessdate=10 April 2009}}
Filmography
- 1999 - The Invisibles (executive producer)
- 1999 - Here Lies Lonely (director){{cite web|title=Bart Dorsa|url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0234104/|work=IMDb|accessdate=7 July 2013}}
- 2001 - 3000 Miles to Graceland (actor)
References
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External links
- {{Official website|http://www.bartdorsa.com}}
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