RIDGEFIELD, CT.- The Aldrich is showing Andrea Dezsö: Haunted Ridgefieldthe latest installment of the Museums popular Main Street Sculpture Projectfeaturing folklore, fantasies, and fears.
The Transylvania-born artists site-specific exhibition at The Aldrich showcases her skill in traditional, labor intensive, hand-crafted book-making, and will take the form of a diorama, in which a series of cut-out panels will reveal layers of a hallucinatory narrative featuring fantasy worlds and idiosyncratic characters.
Dezsö presents a powerful journey to the interior of the psyche through giant multimedia tunnel books, visible through the windows of the Museums historic 1783 administration building on Main Street.
Aldrich curator Mónica Ramírez-Montagut explains, Dezsö was inspired by Connecticuts haunted places and their stories; her exhibition will feature strange child-like creatures that populate the bizarre environment of her installation.
The somewhat surreal setting will present motifs from nature, such as spider webs and creeper plants, which convey a certain level of mystery and danger. These motifs will extend into the buildings architecture, where the artist has created new Victorian-like fretwork for the porch (corbels, gable decorations, and column brackets), with ornaments that are deadly beautiful and irresistible.
As Dezsö points out, It opens on Halloween night, my favorite holiday, because that is the time when we can trespass across the barrier between the world of the living and the world of the dead.