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viennacontemporary

27 September 2018 - 30 September 2018

Preview and Vernissage: 26 September 

 

Solo booth presenting historic works by Luchezar Boyadjiev
booth: D-18

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Presentation of the book Introduction to Bulgarian Contemporary Art (1982– 2015): 
28 September, 4 pm

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Recommended: 

PHANTASY IS MORE IMPORTANT
project by Kamen Stoyanov
presented by FLUCA - Austrian Cultural Pavilion at Notgalerie, Vienna

 


viennacontemporary 
Marx Halle Vienna
www.viennacontemporary.at

 

Kindly supported by BKI "Haus Wittgenstein" and National Fund Culture, Bulgaria

Artists presented: Luchezar Boyadjiev

  • Alice’s Hole or the swamp of Marx-Leninist Aesthetics, 1991 Luchezar Boyadjiev Alice’s Hole or the swamp of Marx-Leninist Aesthetics, 1991 Installation
    7 drawings, pencil on paper, various sizes (1 drawing 173 x 90 cm, 2 drawings 141 x 95 cm, 2 drawings 70.5 x 95 cm, and 2 drawings 95 x 70,5 cm),
    textbooks on Marxist-Leninist aesthetics used by the author during his education at the National Art Academy in Sofia 1975-1980,
    reed, photograph, textual drawing, etc.   The work tells the “story” of the birth-and-life of a socialist-realist artist from before 1989 in mirrored images – born like Venus in the Botticelli painting with putty-angels overseeing the event, the artist is penis-less, his wife is… lonely, he is monitored by officials and when finally he conceives of something – it’s of twin babies fighting with boxing gloves while still in their mother’s womb. Work can be viewed in details here
  • Drawing #117 from the cycle of 150 drawings “Crucifixion for the Fisherman”, 1991-1992 Luchezar Boyadjiev Drawing #117 from the cycle of 150 drawings “Crucifixion for the Fisherman”, 1991-1992 watercolor, brush, pencil on paper
    14 x 14 cm
    numbered, signed and dated on the back More information on the series of drawings here
  • Drawing #124 from the cycle of 150 drawings “Crucifixion for the Fisherman”, 1991-1992 Luchezar Boyadjiev Drawing #124 from the cycle of 150 drawings “Crucifixion for the Fisherman”, 1991-1992 watercolor, brush, pen and ink on paper
    14 x 14 cm
    numbered, signed and dated on the back More information on the series of drawings here    
  • Drawing #146 from the cycle of 150 drawings “Crucifixion for the Fisherman”, 1991-1992 Luchezar Boyadjiev Drawing #146 from the cycle of 150 drawings “Crucifixion for the Fisherman”, 1991-1992 pencil, pen and ink; collage on paper
    14 x 14 cm
    numbered, signed and dated on the back More information on the series of drawings here
  • Drawing #32 from the cycle of 150 drawings “Crucifixion for the Fisherman”, 1991-1992 Luchezar Boyadjiev Drawing #32 from the cycle of 150 drawings “Crucifixion for the Fisherman”, 1991-1992 watercolor, brush, pencil on paper
    14 x 14 cm
    numbered, signed and dated on the back More information on the series of drawings here
  • Drawing #40 from the cycle of 150 drawings “Crucifixion for the Fisherman”, 1991-1992 Luchezar Boyadjiev Drawing #40 from the cycle of 150 drawings “Crucifixion for the Fisherman”, 1991-1992 watercolor, brush, pencil on paper
    14 x 14 cm
    numbered, signed and dated on the back More information on the series of drawings here
  • Drawing #78 from the cycle of 150 drawings “Crucifixion for the Fisherman”, 1991-1992 Luchezar Boyadjiev Drawing #78 from the cycle of 150 drawings “Crucifixion for the Fisherman”, 1991-1992 watercolor, brush, pencil on paper
    14 x 14 cm
    numbered, signed and dated on the back More information on the series of drawings here
  • How many nails in a mouth? Self-portrait with 2 kg of 12.5 cm long nails in the mouth, 1992-1995 Luchezar Boyadjiev How many nails in a mouth? Self-portrait with 2 kg of 12.5 cm long nails in the mouth, 1992-1995 Homage to Günther Uecker  Passport photographs in a block of 4
    13 x 9 cm
    Edition 3/1 AP
    Courtesy SARIEV Contemporary   Based on the idea that a truer self-portrait is made if the artist finds the Other in the Self, this image represents and attempt at self-exploration. The “How many nails in a mouth?” work started as a pencil-on-paper drawing expressing inner turmoil and anguish related to a deep family crisis. The initial drawing was made in the summer of 1992 on the terrace in front of the Albertina Museum in Vienna. Later on it evolved into a photographic work subtitled “Homage to Günther Uecker” – as a part of a cycle of homage(s) first shown at “Orient/ation”, the 4th Istanbul Biennial, curated by René Block in 1995. The photographic image was made in a passport photo booth in the center of Sofia in October 1995. The “model” could hold the bunch of nails in his mouth for less than 2 sec due to the very heavy strain on the lower jaw muscles. There were 2 versions/negatives made – a straight up frontal face image and a ¾ side view as in a passport photograph, seen here.
  • How many nails in a mouth?, 1992 Luchezar Boyadjiev How many nails in a mouth?, 1992 drawing
    12.8 x 8.7 cm   This image represents and attempt at self-exploration. The “How many nails in a mouth?” work started as a pencil-on-paper drawing expressing inner turmoil and anguish related to a deep family crisis. The drawing was made in the summer of 1992 on the terrace in front of the Albertina Museum in Vienna. Later on it evolved into a photographic work subtitled “Homage to Günther Uecker” – as a part of a cycle of homage(s) first shown at “Orient/ation”, the 4th Istanbul Biennial, curated by René Block in 1995.
  • Modified Catalogue, 1993 Luchezar Boyadjiev Modified Catalogue, 1993 Part of a cycle of 55 hand-manipulated catalogues from a solo show
    30 x 42 cm In the fall of 1992, the organizers of the first solo show of the artist outside of Bulgaria, the IFA-Berlin Galerie published a dual edition of the exhibition catalogue. By mistake, there appeared an extra 200 or so copies of the catalogue – with full content but without covers. The artist took some of these and “customized” them by giving each one a unique cover thus turning the faulty catalogue edition into a cycle of artist’s books. Work can be viewed in details here
  • On Vacation: Erzherzog Albrecht from Vienna, 2006 Luchezar Boyadjiev On Vacation: Erzherzog Albrecht from Vienna, 2006 Digital print on 300 g Paul Calle Fine Art paper
    60 x 80 cm
    Part of: On Vacation…, 2004 / in progress
    On-going cycle of digital prints
    each one 60 x 80 or 80 x 60 cm More information on the cycle here
  • Self-portrait as a Dandy (Don’t be cross!), 2012 Luchezar Boyadjiev Self-portrait as a Dandy (Don’t be cross!), 2012 Sepia ink and pen on paper
    21 x 15 cm For me a self-portrait in whatever form and material is an act of exploration which overlaps the Self and the Other. Here the visual likeness to the model is a matter of inner feeling and self-esteem rather than of outer appearances. These 7 drawings were made as part of my usual routine of bursts of drawings followed by periods of no-drawing depending on the day, mood, season, sustainable will to life or lack of it.  
  • White mouse on white background (Homage to Kasimir Malevich), 1995 Luchezar Boyadjiev White mouse on white background (Homage to Kasimir Malevich), 1995 Color photograph
    12.6 x 17.5 cm
    edition 20/5 AP Playing with the notion of modernism and the early avant-garde as an experimental and alternative way of “making art”, the work references the white, tiled laboratory and the test animals there. The references go on with Malevich use of White Square on white background, the cross and the square as preferred forms of Suprematism. The “Homage to Kasimir Malevich” was first shown at “Orient/ation”, the 4th Istanbul Biennial curated by René Block in 1995.
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