Roberto Dutesco

Art Brokerage: Roberto Dutesco Romanian-born Canadian Artist: b. 1961. Roberto Dutesco (born June 6, 1961) is a Romanian-born Canadian artist, photographer and filmmaker.He travels and works worldwide. Dutesco began his career as a fashion photographer in Montreal, Canada. In 1994, he shifted the focus of his work to long-term personal projects that explore his environmental interests and natural subject matter. His photographs of the landscapes, wildlife and horses of Sable Island have been on permanent exhibition since 2006 in Soho, New York City, at two locations (initially at 13 Crosby Street and presently at 64 Grand Street). In 1994, Dutesco traveled to Sable Island, a small island off the coast of Nova Scotia. The island is a narrow, crescent-shaped sandbar with a surface area of about 34 square kilometers (13 square miles) and is home to an estimated 400 feral horses. Between 1994 and 2004, Dutesco traveled across the southwestern United States, (California, Utah, New Mexico and Colorado), documenting its “sandscapes.” In 2003, Dutesco was asked to create an outdoor exhibition to be installed on the streets of downtown Montreal; the theme for the installation was global peace. He travelled to Dharamshala, McLeod Ganj, in order to secure a private sitting for a photograph of the 14th Dalai Lama to include in the exhibit. Also included in the exhibition were his images of the many young lamas in India. This comprehensive installation, entitled Here Is Now, was installed over a four-city-block radius on the McGill University campus in the summer of 2004. It included over three hundred of Dutesco's photographs. Dutesco's films include Sable Island, which he shot on 16-mm film with an Arriflex 16S camera.