CONTEMPORARY ISTANBUL 2011

24 November 2011 - 27 November 2011
Stand IKM 202-203

CONTEMPORARY ISTANBUL
İstanbul, Turkey
www.contemporaryistanbul.com

Artists presented: Anton Stoianov Bora Petkova Lubri Pravdoliub Ivanov Rada Boukova Stefania Batoeva Svetozara Alexandrova Vikenti Komitski Voin de Voin

Pravdoliub Ivanov Balance Ball, 2008 object of laser-cut steel, powder
coated in black
90 x 95 cm
edition 5+2AP
Pravdoliub Ivanov Balance ball, 2008 drawing
pencil and watercolor on paper
framed
30 x 38 cm
Rada Boukova Blind, 2006 color photography, C-print
20 x 20 cm
edition 3+1 + flash card
Vikenti Komitski Clash, 2011 sound, 6'02''
edition: 7

Different track is played on each headphone:
the Jedi Theme and the Imperial March from Star Wars movie soundtrack
Voin de Voin Creature, 2011 digital printed on paper
52 x 38 сm
edition: 3
Rada Boukova Delux 2, 2007 pearls, wire, nails
90 x 130 cm
Stefania Batoeva Drink Me, 2011 stainless steel bathroom cabinet/ spray paint
45 x 35 x 20 cm
edition: 5
Bora Petkova EXIST, 2009 aluminum, plastic, glass, diodes, cable, plug, white adhesive tape
14.5 х 35 х 2.5 cm
multiple
edition: 10
Svetozara Alexandrova Forbidden, 2010 woodboard, acrylic
80 x 80 cm
Svetozara Alexandrova Forbidden, 2010 woodboard, acrylic
80 x 80 cm
Pravdoliub Ivanov From the series Existing Subjects, 2007 drawing, tempera and pencil on paper
35 x 26 cm
Pravdoliub Ivanov From the series Non-Works ongoing project started 2007
colour photo
26 x 35 cm
edition: 10
Pravdoliub Ivanov From the series Non-Works ongoing project started 2007
colour photo
26 x 35 cm
edition: 10
Pravdoliub Ivanov From the series Non-Works ongoing project started 2007
colour photo
26 x 35 cm
edition: 10
Lubri Hard Candy, Body-builder, 2009 inkjet print
series of nine photos
75 x 50 cm
edition: 5 The Hard Candy series is a brief study of facial expressions. The figures are removed from reality in order to outline the bodies of bоdybuilders in their sculpture and relief, while the faces are statically grotesque. They are somehow expressive and ecstatic in a baroque way, with expressions that actually do not express anything. Ultimately, this is a choreography of muscle contractions performed in the name of the show, something spectacular on display. What these people are behind their masks of perpetual efforts remains a mystery to us, touching upon the eternal duality of image/identity. An essence which has remained elusive for the visible as ever, leaving fresh marks on the celluloid film.
Vera Mlechevska Full series can be viewed here
Vikenti Komitski I wish I was that cool, 2010 digital print
dimensions variable
Pravdoliub Ivanov Illusion III, 2011 ink, tempera on paper
57 x 60 cm (size framed)
Vikenti Komitski Monument to missed opportunities, 2009 found object and rotating mechanism
edition: 3
Pravdoliub Ivanov No Name, 2004 multiple, silicon, cement
13 x 17 x 30 cm
edition: 5
4 available
Anton Stoianov Petar and Pavel, 2006 gouache on wood, gold
20 х 30 cm
Pravdoliub Ivanov Puzzled puzzle, 2011 multiple, puzzle
19.5 x 29 cm
Pravdoliub Ivanov Rise to Score, 2011 collage, tempera on paper
45 x 35.5 cm
Anton Stoianov Socks, 2010 socks, canvas
150 х 150 cm
Svetozara Alexandrova The meat (DIE Fleisch), 2009 digital photos, C-print
dimensions variable
edition 10+2AP
Vikenti Komitski Together again, 2009 world map, paper
edition: 5 Together Again is a work that coincides with the line of the present. Its author, Vikenti Komitski, collages the political geography of the world into an almost unified continent. Pangaea seems to represent a lost unity of the worlds that has been restored in the form of a colourful geopolitical patchwork. The optimism emanating from the title Together Again puts an “end”, an end to geographic, political, economic and cultural division. The world looks compiled as in a children’s game, profaned in a way. As Giorgio Agamben writes, “To profane means to open the possibility of a special form of negligence, which ignores separation or, rather, puts it to a particular use.” Vikenti Komitski also profanes the very process of creation, deliberately abandoning everything he learned from his education. Regrouped by the artist, the continents are a parody of the ongoing processes of uniformity which penetrate into all spheres of human relations and where everything functions in a state of separation from itself, solely by its exchangeable economic value. Ultimately, what the new state of global peace created by Vikenti Komitski tells us is that the earth is flat.
Vera Mlechevska
Vikenti Komitski Untitled (art book), 2011 book
12 x 16 cm
edition 3+2AP
Lubri Untitled, 2011 digital printed on paper
67.5 x 47.5 cm
Rada Boukova Untitled, 2011 newspaper, paper, frame
41 x 50 cm
private collection
Vikenti Komitski WEST, 2011 site-specific installation
various sizes
еdition 3+1AP
exhibition view Sariev