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Nedko Solakov
Born 1957, Cherven Briag, Bulgaria. Lives and works in Sofia, Bulgaria.
Selected solo exhibitions
2007
Under Destruction #3, Museum of Contemporary Art/MNAC, Bucharest.
2006
Earlier Works, Kunsthalle Mannheim, Mannheim.
2005
Leftovers — a selection of my unsold pieces from the private galleries I work with, Kunsthaus, Zurich.
2004
A 12 1/3 (and even more) Year Survey, Rooseum Center for Contemporary Art, Malmö. O.K. Centrum für Gegenwartskunst, Linz.
2003
Alien Auras, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem.
Selected group exhibitions
2007
52 Esposizione Internazionale d’Arte, La Biennale di Venezia.
2006
Unhomely, 2nd Seville International Biennial of Contemporary Art, Seville.
2005
9th Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul.
2004
Imagine Limerick/ev+a, various venues, Limerick, Ireland.
2003
Utopia Station, 50 Esposizione Internazionale d’Arte, La Biennale di Venezia.
The ironic and metaphoric style of Nedko Solakov's creativity is
always easily recognizable. His works are paradoxical and multisemantic. In the installation 'A Life (black and white)' (1998) two
painters, moving one after the other, apply paint to the walls:
one puts on black, the other puts on white. Their endless movement, associated with the flow of existence, arouses in the viewer diverse associations, from the banal 'stripiness of life' to the
complex culturological comparisons with Suprematism and
remedial art. The unattractive staginess of the building site, presented by Solakov instead of an aesthetically pleasing one,
forces the viewer to abandon the area of comfort, to search for
new meanings, to see the poetry of everyday life. It is by no
means an accident that this work, already shown in ten of the
world's cities, enjoys an unchanging success.
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Nedko Solakov (Bulgaria)
«Life (Black and White)», 1998
Performance
Black and white paint, two workers/painters constantly repainting the walls of the exhibition, day after day (following each other); dimensions variable.
Courtesy the artist
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