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Roman Bezjak, Archeology of an Era: Socialist Modernism 4, 2008
Roman Bezjak, Archeology of an Era: Socialist Modernism 4, 2008

Roman Bezjak

Archeology of an Era - Socialist Modernism

Between 2005 and 2012, Roman Bezjak has travelled across East and Southeast Europe and the eastern part of Germany, searching for buildings that could be categorized as representative examples of the architecture of socialist modernism. He created a vast oeuvre of photographs that visualizes the archaeology of this modernism in its own way. He took photographs of apartment buildings, hotels, cultural venues and similar architectures, functioning in the public sphere. Looking at his work, a utopian vocabulary of forms comes to notice, implying an architectural monotony of that era. Bezjak’s photographs reveal the visible wear and tear of the utopian and its placement in our everyday life. In 2012 Roman Bezjak continued his visual research of socialist architecture in Pyongyang and in 2017 in Taschkent. This two new bodies of works has been enhanced by his latest work in Skopje, where in the last seven years the postwar modern city has got partly a face-lifting to a neo-classical and neo-baroque appeal.

Roman Bezjak, Archeology of an Era: Socialist Modernism 1, Belgrad, 2005
Roman Bezjak, Archeology of an Era: Socialist Modernism 2, Bratislava, 2008
Roman Bezjak, Archeology of an Era: Socialist Modernism 3, Dnipropetrowsk, 2007
Roman Bezjak, Archeology of an Era: Socialist Modernism 4, 2008
Roman Bezjak, Archeology of an Era: Socialist Modernism 5, Sarajevo, 2007
Roman Bezjak, Archeology of an Era: Socialist Modernism 6, St. Petersburg, 2009
Roman Bezjak, Archeology of an Era: Socialist Modernism 7, Belgrad, 2005
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