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ARTVILNIUS'09 – the first international contemporary art fair in the Baltic States

DATE: 8-12 July 2009
VENUE: Lithuanian Exhibition and Conference Center LITEXPO
ORGANIZER: Lithuanian Art Gallerists’ Association (LMGA)

Vilnius is the European capital of culture in 2009. One of the most important and largest events of this program will be the first international art fair ever to be held in the Baltic States – ART VILNIUS’09.A wide and representative panorama of contemporary art will be opened at LITEXPO Lithuanian Exhibition and Conference Center. The area of 11,632 sq. m will be occupied by some 100 well-known and new galleries from Lithuania, its neighboring countries and galleries from Bulgaria, Germany, Holland, France, Italy, Russia, Austria,Argentina, Spain,Canada, Belgium, Romania, Switzerland, Portugal i etc. Podium discussions, educational events and plenty of other different events are also in the program of ARTVILNIUS’09.
Bulart gallery will presents "he/art/mythology" project with Paolo Vivian /Italy/, Matthias Biermann /Germany/ and bulgarian artists Simeon Stoilov, Plamen Solominski and Kaloyan Iliev- Kokimoto. stand 4.2, hall 4 in LITEXPO,Vilnius, Lithuania.

Official opening: 8th July 2009, 6.00 p.m.
See the program: http://www.artvilnius.com/

"he/art/mythology" project.curator dora doncheva.bulart gallery.artvilnius.stand 4.2.hall4.vilnius.lithuania. 8 - 12 july 2009.litexpo.

Kaloyan iliev -Kokimoto.Matthias Biermann.Paolo Vivian.Plamen Solomonski.Simeon Stoilov.
5 artists from Bulgaria, Italy and Germany go in field of present social icons and ordinary concepts. In this 5 artistic researches we are looking for identify of the present man in our crazy chaotic reality. Love, urban life style, art system, religion, social frames are in a center of the artistic games. Romantic, provocative, radical and ironic the project express present worries of the players in art industry game and same time creates new icons close to present trendy in visual forms established of mass media and art leaders in the market. “he/art/mythology’ project is a game of words and exchange the meanings.It is a transformation of concepts and creation of false language. It’s about our habit to create fetishes and to live in false mythology. There is a message to be free following the traditions and expression of the worries about human existence in present times. Same time there are the questions about art system and the place of the present artist in it. And these questions are in base of the artist’s expression by the means of installation, video, objects and collages. Matthias Biermann /1969, Berlin, Germany/ with “I want to be biger”,video installation, Paolo Vivian /1962, Serso di Pergine,Italy/ with “Dindele Dondele campano “- installation,objects,video, Plamen Solomonski /1970,Targovishte, Bulgaria/ with “PS TV Market”, video, Simeon Stoilov /1971, Yambol,Bulgaria/ with “Fragile/Defective hearts”, objects and Kaloyan iliev- Kokimoto with “Samples of reality”, collages.They express the main line of “he/art/mythology” project in 40 sq.m. space of the stand 4.2 in hall 4 of Bulart gallery in First International fair for contemporary arts in Vilnius,Lithuania – ARTVILNIUS.Curator of the project is Dora Doncheva- Bulart.
You are most welcome !!!!

For ARTVILNIUS see more in web site:
http://www.artvilnius.com/

От 23 май до 15 юни 2009 г. представям в галерия 1908 / ул. Ангел Кънчев 1, София / проекта си "Изгубена самоличност" – 33 рисунки, колажи, дигитален печат върху канаваца, обекти и инсталации, създадени в периода 2008 - 2009 г.

"Изгубена самоличност" представлява комбинация от различни медии, също като събитията, които описва. Събития, отражение на личния ми живот и на времето, през което той протича.
Това е една история за живота на млад мъж, който се лута между действителността, в която живее и действителността, която създава като художник.
Една история за възхода и падението на човек, намиращ се в постоянен конфликт със самия себе си , изгубил своята самоличност, в това така объркано време. Разкъсван между собственото си "аз" и заобикалящия ме свят, в крайна сметка, поставям своята фигура в центъра на всяко едно от тълкованията си.

From 23 May to 15 June 2009 I represent at 1908 Gallery / 1 Angel Kanchev Str., Sofia, Bulgaria / my project "Identity Lost" – 33 paintings, collages, digital print on canvas, objects and installations created between 2008 – 2009.

"Identity Lost" is a combination of different media, such as the events which it describes. These are events which reflect my personal life and the time which it goes through.
This is a story of a young man who wanders between the reality he lives in and the reality which he creates as an artist.
This is a story about a progress and a falling of a man who is in a constant conflict with himself, a man who had lost his identity in that baffling time.
Finally, I put myself in the centre of each of my interpretations, rift betwen my personal "I" and the surrounding world.

http://video.v2.bgnes.com/view/3285
http://www.monitor.bg/article?id=201788
http://urbanzoo.bg/video/izgubena_samolichnost.html
http://www.programata.bg/?p=62&l=1&c=1&id=53408
http://edno.bg/?page=news&id=2753

"Tи си замесен… също като мен"

Спокойно мога да разруша стария образ за да се опълча срещу измамното настояще на отминалото и го правя в колажите си, чрез груба и не дотолкова груба намеса.
Всички тези освободени изображения се дължат на монтаж. След като ги повредя и разчленя те служат като материал за изграждане на общата картина, в противовес на всичко, което притъпява сетивата ни.
Това внезапно разтърсване на нашия свят е необходимо, за да не изгубим големите идеи, утопиите и вярата във всичко смислено и безсмислено, в което сме замесени.
Наситени с ирония и преднамерена неяснота на места, с черен хумор, съчетан с разказването на истории, колажите ми носят послание. Същевременно се опитвам да проникна до нещо по – дълбоко, да превърна тези изображения във видим израз на това, в което съм замесен.
И въпреки препятствията, които съм вмъкнал, зад тях стои идеята за минало, настояще и бъдеще в една манипулативна реалност и нейната връзка с настоящите политически и икономически глобални световни промени, в които всички ние сме замесени.

"You are involved… just like me"

I can calmly destroy the old image and rebel against today’s deception of the past, and I do it in my collages through rough and not so rough involvement.
All these freed visualizations appear as part of the ‘putting together’ process. After I damage and tear them apart, they serve as building materials for making the bigger picture against everything that blunts our perception.
This sudden shaking of our world is necessary for us not to lose the big ideas , a ‘Utopia’ and faith in everything that makes, and does not make sense in that which we are involved.
Full of irony and deliberately unclear in places, black humour together with stories, the collages are a legacy for the future. At the same time I am trying to penetrate to something much deeper, to make these characters into visual expressions of that in which I am involved.
Despite the difficulties which I have incorporated in them, behind them remains the idea of past, present and future in a manipulative reality - and its connection with the present political and economical global world changes in which we are all involved.