Nedko Solakov
25 Feb - 03 Jun 2012
NEDKO SOLAKOV
All in Order, with Exceptions
25 February – 3 June, 2012
Nedko Solakov (°1957, Cherven Briag) is one of Bulgaria's internationally best known contemporary artists, and has been artistically active for more than thirty years. The exhibition in S.M.A.K. is the first 'retrospective' of Solakov’s work in Belgium.
The premise is deceptively simple: Solakov collected documentation of all the work he created between 1980 and 2010, and gave the curators of the various institutions carte blanche to select one work for each year. These thirty works form the basis of the exhibition and in turn Solakov himself adds those typically ironic and melancholy comments that appear so often in his work. Solakov distilled an extra exhibition called ‘All in (my) order, with exceptions’ from the works not included in the curator’s selection and put it on show at the Galleria Civica in Trento.
In THE FOLDERS (2011), the ‘31st' work in the S.M.A.K. exhibition, Solakov comments on his thirty years of artistic practice in a third ‘communicative layer’. This work could be regarded as a kind of sculptural library, divided into three book-benches/bookcases each covering a decade, where Solakov, to his heart’s content, adds footnotes to his own artistic career.
All in Order, with Exceptions
25 February – 3 June, 2012
Nedko Solakov (°1957, Cherven Briag) is one of Bulgaria's internationally best known contemporary artists, and has been artistically active for more than thirty years. The exhibition in S.M.A.K. is the first 'retrospective' of Solakov’s work in Belgium.
The premise is deceptively simple: Solakov collected documentation of all the work he created between 1980 and 2010, and gave the curators of the various institutions carte blanche to select one work for each year. These thirty works form the basis of the exhibition and in turn Solakov himself adds those typically ironic and melancholy comments that appear so often in his work. Solakov distilled an extra exhibition called ‘All in (my) order, with exceptions’ from the works not included in the curator’s selection and put it on show at the Galleria Civica in Trento.
In THE FOLDERS (2011), the ‘31st' work in the S.M.A.K. exhibition, Solakov comments on his thirty years of artistic practice in a third ‘communicative layer’. This work could be regarded as a kind of sculptural library, divided into three book-benches/bookcases each covering a decade, where Solakov, to his heart’s content, adds footnotes to his own artistic career.