Dance With Us
06 - 27 May 2014
DANCE WITH US
Ein Ausstellungsprojekt von Kamen Stoyanov
6 - 27 May 2014
Aldo Giannotti
Michail Michailov
Nicolas Muller
Nicole Prutsch
Emilia Smokova
Kamen Stoyanov
Iv Toshain
The title of this exhibition-project suggests the invitation to a common dancing. The question which arouses is: are the artists invited to the Gallery ́s dance floor or is the audience invited to dance with the Art? And: what is such a dance able to achieve?
Inspired was the title of the exhibition by the Bulgarian #ДАНСwithme- antigovernment protest – movement, which started on June 14, 2013 until now. Dance With Us origins in the acoustic overlapping of the short-phrase for “Governmental Service for National Security” – ДАНС - and the english expression for „dancing“. What caused the so called „protest movement“ was the controversal election of an even more controversal minister for National Security. From the first day on „common dancing“ was the gesture for a positive alteration of the status-quo. „The Dance“ still is going on and in its persistance origins its power and elegance and even its utopic character. This exhibition is also about corruption and nepotism. Cause: Only together we can set examples and change things.
The list of artists was based on the principle: every invited elected another one...
Kamen Stoyanov
Ein Ausstellungsprojekt von Kamen Stoyanov
6 - 27 May 2014
Aldo Giannotti
Michail Michailov
Nicolas Muller
Nicole Prutsch
Emilia Smokova
Kamen Stoyanov
Iv Toshain
The title of this exhibition-project suggests the invitation to a common dancing. The question which arouses is: are the artists invited to the Gallery ́s dance floor or is the audience invited to dance with the Art? And: what is such a dance able to achieve?
Inspired was the title of the exhibition by the Bulgarian #ДАНСwithme- antigovernment protest – movement, which started on June 14, 2013 until now. Dance With Us origins in the acoustic overlapping of the short-phrase for “Governmental Service for National Security” – ДАНС - and the english expression for „dancing“. What caused the so called „protest movement“ was the controversal election of an even more controversal minister for National Security. From the first day on „common dancing“ was the gesture for a positive alteration of the status-quo. „The Dance“ still is going on and in its persistance origins its power and elegance and even its utopic character. This exhibition is also about corruption and nepotism. Cause: Only together we can set examples and change things.
The list of artists was based on the principle: every invited elected another one...
Kamen Stoyanov