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| Adam Bartos- Kosmos, an exhibition of chromogenic dye-coupler prints. While Adam Bartos' visual disquisition on the Soviet space program is a unique record of a once inviolate institution, to approach his photographs anthropologically is to mistake Bartos' sympathetic exposition for simple documentary. Whether depicting a massive aeronautic laboratory or diminutive commemorative buttons, Bartos' photographs suggest the manner in which the dream of space travel inspired and helped to define Soviet society during the Cold War years. At first startling in its iridescent delineation and studied complexity, Bartos' carefully articulated aesthetic superimposes a harmony on these objects and locations not accredited them since their deification in the space program. Twice sublimated, under both Soviet aspirations as well as Bartos', these subjects are not hieroglyphs of a defunct optimism, but enduringly beautiful artifacts and intricacies, flawlessly vivified by Bartos' photography. | ||