User:Roberto Dutesco

Biography
ROBERTO DUTESCO IS A NEW YORK–BASED CANADIAN ARTIST. Romanian born, he studied photography in Montreal, where he moved as a teenager. Dutesco soon became a sought-after fashion photographer. With the spirit of a globe-trotter, he portrayed prominent personalities of our times, such as Pierre Trudeau, the Dalai Lama and Mikhail Gorbachev.

Since the early nineties, he has devoted much of his time to photography, poetry and film. Dutesco has now completed several projects: The Wild Horses of Sable Island, The American Sandscape, Rocks and Things, Flowers & Dreams, Brîncusi: The Endless Column, The Human Landscape, Waters, East/West Travels of the 14th Dalai Lama, the poetry book Ethereal Reflections and Alphabetical Mayhem. Roberto’s travels have taken him through more than sixty countries and left him with a fascination for and extraordinary documentation of this “One World” that we all share.

His short films Times Square and Sable Horses have been screened and favorably reviewed in several film festivals across the U.S., culminating with the multiple-award-winning documentary Chasing Wild Horses—a CBC/Arcadia Production. The Sable Island Journey has been Dutesco’s main focus and dedication. Since 1994 his efforts to document and showcase The Wild Horses of Sable Island have played favorably in the conservation and protection of Sable Island. His SoHo gallery (est. 2006), presenting this documentation of Sable Island and its band of Wild Horses was chosen as one of fifty places one must visit in New York City, by AAD, teNeues, 2010.

Timeline

 * 1961 	Born Bucharest, Romania, June 6, 1961.


 * 1967 	Takes first photograph at age 6 (portrait of his family).


 * 1974–76 	Attends National School of Arts in Bucharest where he studies painting, sculpture and drawing.


 * 1980 	Moves from Romania to Ottawa, Canada.


 * 1981 	Moves from Ottawa to Montreal, Canada.


 * 1982 	Buys first Nikon camera and begins to photograph elements of nature, flowers, trees, rocks and streams.


 * 1982 	Sells his first photograph of a flower for $5.00.


 * 1984–86 	Attends The Dawson Institute of Photography in Montreal.


 * 1987 	Opens Photo Studio in Montreal.


 * 1990 	Photographs Mikhail Gorbachev and Pierre Trudeau.


 * 1987–92 	Becomes sought after Fashion photographer filling the pages of Elle, Vogue, Rolling Stone, Flare and many more.


 * 1992 	Opens large photo studio in Midtown Manhattan and continues to work in fashion and art photography.


 * 1992 	October. Breakout campaign for “Request Jeans” brings Dutesco to the forefront of the fashion industry.


 * 1994 	An indelible vision leads Dutesco to Sable Island, where a seventeen-year photographic odyssey begins.


 * 1994–97 	Dutesco works intensely in New York City, producing artistic and abstract images, experimenting with new production techniques and presentation methods. Much of his time is now dedicated to the Wild Horses of Sable Island.


 * 1997 	Dutesco returns to Sable Island for a second time and becomes completely immersed in this subject.


 * 1998 	Travels to over forty countries on a photographic “Vision Quest” capturing and collecting thousands of images from around the globe.


 * 2000 	Completes the 16-mm black-and-white short film Sable Horses, which later inspires a feature documentary for Bravo.


 * 2001 	Completes the film Times Squared, a visual photo diary of his travels to over fifty countries.


 * 2002 	May 20–June 20, The National Arts Club, exhibits a one-man show entitled Sable Horses, Sand Dunes and Rocks & Things.


 * 2002 	Sony displays The Wild Horses of Sable Island along Madison Avenue at their headquarters in New York and in Chicago.


 * 2003 	The United Nations exhibits Dutesco’s photographs of Wild Horses in a show entitled A World Without Borders.


 * 2004 	Dutesco stages an outdoor exhibition in downtown Montreal showcasing over three hundred photographs in Here Is Now and Water World. This downtown public exhibition consumes four city blocks.


 * 2005 	Dutesco returns to Romania and on July 6th continuously photographs The Endless Column by Brîncusi for twenty-four hours.


 * 2005 	World Expo in Japan: Dutesco displays eight-by-twelve-foot, multi-paneled murals of The Sable Horses at the United States Pavilion.


 * 2005 	Dutesco meets curator Peter Tunney. Together they plan an exhibition of The Wild Horses of Sable Island in SoHo, New York City.


 * 2006 	Spring. Dutesco exhibits Homage to Brîncusi, featuring over 250 photographs of The Endless Column, taken a year before in Romania.


 * 2006 	Summer. Preparation and construction begins at 13 Crosby Street, SoHo, New York City, for a one-man show featuring The Wild Horses of Sable Island.


 * 2006 	The Wild Horses of Sable Island opens to a mesmerized crowd of over three thousand people at 13 Crosby Street. The exhibition features over 125 large-scale photographs.


 * 2007 	Surfing Sable Island, in collaboration with Scott MacDonough, thirteen unique surfboards are produced and exhibited at 13 Crosby Street using Dutesco’s photographs of the Wild Horses. A book of the same title is also produced.


 * 2007 	Dutesco create a photographic installation for the windows of Lord & Taylor, displayed all along Fifth Avenue.


 * 2007 	Dutesco, Tunney and Arcadia crew arrive on Sable Island and begin principle photography for a feature documentary entitled Chasing Wild Horses, to be aired on Bravo.


 * 2007 	Dutesco makes three successive trips to Sable Island with his film crew and completes filming for Chasing Wild Horses.


 * 2008 	National Arts Club, New York City, screens the premiere of the documentary Chasing Wild Horses for the first time in the United States of America.


 * 2008 	The Wild Horses of Sable Island photographs are shown on Madison Avenue in the windows of The Ralph Lauren Mansion and featured in the design section of the famed store.


 * 2008 	The Riverhouse, in New York City. Manhattan’s first green, model residence, designed by Thom Felicia, showcases works by Roberto Dutesco.


 * 2008 	Summer. The Wild Horses of Sable Island are shown in the Ralph Lauren windows in East Hampton, New York.


 * 2008 	Summer. LongHouse Reserve, East Hampton, New York. Mega-size photographs of Dutesco’s Wild Horses, up to forty feet in length, are installed outdoors in the gardens along with sculptures by Sol LeWitt, Willem de Kooning and Buckminster Fuller.


 * 2009 	Ethereal Reflections installation: selected poems and flowers photoworks for the windows of Lord & Taylor, Fifth Avenue, New York City. A book of the same title is also produced.


 * 2009 	Autumn. The beginning of Sable Island Mobile Project (www.wildhorsesofsableisland.com). Expected completion end of 2013.


 * 2009	Performance by Jennifer Muller’s dance company The Works, inspired by The Wild Horses of Sable Island.


 * 2010 	The Wild Horses of Sable Island Gallery featured in Art Architecture Design Guide, teNeues.


 * 2010 	We Are Beauty, Amsterdam Project. Collaboration with Ivan Tse.


 * 2010 	Autumn. Returns to Sable Island. Films extended interview with Zoe Lucas.


 * 2011 	Spring. Opening, Past to Present, an exhibition of Dutesco’s newest photographs from his most recent trip to Sable Island.


 * 2011 	Autumn. Opening of The Embassy of Canada’s Gallery exhibit, Wild Horses of Sable Island, featuring oversize and extensively annotated photoworks, Washington, DC.


 * 2011–12	Completion of Alphabetical Mayhem, twenty-six word-works to be presented and published in 2012.


 * 2012	Completion of self published limited edition book, The Wild Horses of Sable Island. Published May, 2012.