Photo album
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- Photo album
- Fénykép album
- 1977
- 21 prints, colored pen, pencil, stamp, stapled, 27 pages
- 21 × 14,4 cm
Károly Elekes’ long-lasting friendships with art historian Radu Procopovici (who was also editor of the magazine “Arta”) and artists like Wanda Mihuleac, Ion Grigorescu, and Decebal Scriba opened up new perspectives on action art, happenings, and photography as well as on their interferences with the urban space. An example of the collaborative projects that resulted is an artist’s book by Elekes realized in cooperation with Procopovici. This book’s action series in three sequences, directed and photographed by the artist and realized in an abandoned theatre in Bucharest, evokes the language and narrativity of a film shoot. The overall composition features sets of four individual but interconnected images where a small-scale action involving a chair takes place. These images’ narrativity intensifies in cases where the camera zooms in on the gestures of the performer, who commands a strong presence in this empty space with no character of its own. Furthermore, the artists realized their aim of going beyond the classical archival documentation of a photo action by adding small, handmade graphic interventions, signs, and colors to finalize this work. E.Kü.