Installation
Author’s reconstruction in a new version
digital
print on vinyl - installation view from
“Beyond the Borders” – the 1st Gwangju Biennial in South Korea,
1995 graphite powder, pencil,
tempera, foil, coins, etc.,
drawings on paper hung on the wall,
child’s toy-police car, an inflatable globe, etc.
dimensions variable
Installation view: “Luchezar Boyadjiev. Sic Transit Media Mundi (The present is too short and rather tight); Sofia City Art Gallery, Sofia. February – March 2018
The author’s replica of a work from the early 1990s revisits the strict duality of the same and the different. The ever-increasing continent of Europe was producing at the time yet newer and newer countries from the split and disintegration of the ex-USSR, ex-Yugoslavia, and ex-Czechoslovakia. Without any effort or doing of its own, Bulgaria, the home country of the author, transformed from a small-sized to a medium-sized European country. The installation – invoking a family bedroom after a pillow fight and referring to the foundation myths of Europe – the Choice of Paris, the Trojan horse in front of Troy, etc. asks the viewer to identify differences in the same and similarities in the different.
The emblem-like drawing with the Fountain of Europe spitting names of countries up in the air, is from the invitation card to the 1995 Sofia-showing of the work. The installation was conceived for and first shown at “Luchezar Boyadjiev. The Fountain of Europe: Double take”, Center for Curatorial Studies - Museum, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, USA, Oct.- Nov. 1994.