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RICHARD TUSCHMAN @ Klompching Gallery

unnamedRICHARD TUSCHMAN: ONCE UPON A TIME IN KAZIMIERZ
March 2–April 9, 2016

Opening Reception: Thursday, March 3, 6pm–9pm

Once Upon a Time in Kazimierz is a visual novella, which portrays a fictional Jewish family in 1930’s Poland. Set in the once vibrant neighborhood of Kazimierz in Krakow, the location is a metaphor for loss and decay. In 1935, the Jewish historian Meir Balaban, described the neighborhood’s declining Jewish population as being “only the poor and the ultra-conservative”. Indeed, the darkness evident in the photographs, is underpinned by an awareness that the fates of the characters, are likely doomed by history, with the impending holocaust. While death, the fraying of family bonds, and feelings of grief haunt many of the photographs, this gloom is punctuated by moments of love, longing and tenderness.

Klompching Gallery
89 Water Street
Brooklyn, NY 11201


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