Radu Darvas – Reparation

Radu Darvas – Reparation

date
31. January 2025 bis 6. April 2025
Note opening hours
In Kalender eintragen
location
Galerie nEUROPA
Bautzner Straße 49, 01099 Dresden, Germany
info
Exhibition
Eintritt bzw. Teilnahme kostenlos

Vernissage
31. Januar 2025, 20:00 Uhr
Mit musikalischer Begleitung von Antonio Morejon Caraballo

Midissage
8. März 2025, 17:00 Uhr
Lesung mit Dorothee Riese aus ihren Buch „Wir sind hier für die Stille“
info
Exhibition
Eintritt bzw. Teilnahme kostenlos

Vernissage
31. Januar 2025, 20:00 Uhr
Mit musikalischer Begleitung von Antonio Morejon Caraballo

Midissage
8. März 2025, 17:00 Uhr
Lesung mit Dorothee Riese aus ihren Buch „Wir sind hier für die Stille“

Photographs from Transylvania 1994/95

Radu Darvas, born in 1973 in Bucharest, first studied there at the Academy of Arts and later in Dresden at the Academy of Fine Arts. As a young boy, he was given a camera and discovered photography. But it was only a few years later, in the period before and during the ‘89 revolution, that Radu began to photograph more and more intensively. He developed the pictures in the bathroom of his prefabricated flat in Bucharest. If it were up to him, he would just take pictures, but what emerged are photos with a fine artistic eye that have gained historical value over time. His style dissolved the distance between himself as a photographer and the people in front of the lens.

Radu Darvas passed away in 2015. His photographic estate comprises several thousand black and white negatives and around 70 developed analogue images. The desire of Mira Darvas, Radu’s second child, to look after the estate gave rise to a small project sponsored by the Department of Culture (City of Dresden). With the help of her aunt (Anca Darvas) and her mother (Heike Tuellmann), she is working on archiving the negatives and photographs, as well as examining what she has seen, some of it familiar and much of it unknown. The complete digitisation of all the negatives has not yet taken place. Further rolls of film turned up both in Bucharest and in Dresden. The material that has already been viewed forms the basis for the ‘Wiedergutmachung’ exhibition and provides a very unique insight into Viscri / Deutsch-Weisskirch in 1994/95. Wiedergutmachung, a word that Radu taught his sister, probably a bit of a joke. But today ‘Wiedergutmachung’ also brings a little peace and closes many circles.

Radu Darvas and Heike Tuellmann met in Viscri in 1994, a time when many young people had already emigrated from their native Transylvania and often only the older ones remained. For a year, Heike looked after a house belonging to Initiative Rumänien e.V., where association members, travellers and Bucharest residents slept and listened to music in the kitchen. During the day, they helped the villagers in the fields, in the house and in the yard, doing chores for the organisation and the villagers. They listened eagerly to their stories. Radu was always there with his camera, capturing moments that today seem a hundred years away from a German perspective. Viscri is now a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Emigration and tourist development have brought about serious changes in the town compared to the time on display.

 

Curation: Mira Darvas
Advice: Simon Wolf


Diese Ausstellung wird durch die Landeshauptstadt Dresden, Amt für Kultur und Denkmalschutz gefördert.

Das Projekt wird gefördert durch das Staatsministerium für Soziales und Gesellschaftlichen Zusammenhalt. Diese Maßnahme wird mitfinanziert mit Steuermitteln auf Grundlage des vom Sächsischen Landtag beschlossenen Haushaltes im Rahmen des Förderprogramms »Wir für Sachsen«.

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