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A
High Level Show with a Catalogue
December 19, 2002 - January 17, 2003 |
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CCA Project Gallery presented a new work by Nedko Solakov.
Playing with the viewer's expectations is a particular goal in Solakov's
work. At first glance, when the visitors to the first exhibition of
Nedko Solakov in Japan enter the CCA Project Gallery, there is nothing
to be seen. Just an empty, beautifully lit white space. However, it
seems that up on the top of the 4.5 meters high walls, where they
meet the complicated ceiling structure of squarish concrete modules,
lamps and ventilation tubes, there is something going on. Tiny little
drawings and everyday life objects are involved in unusual relationships.
As always in Solakov's narrations there are handwritten on the walls
texts articulating these fables. But in comparison with all of his
previous, discreet and hidden, but still accessible for the kneeing
and bending viewer, now all these texts are definitely unreadable
from the floor level.
And here comes at hand the catalogue of the show, which thoroughly
and conveniently represents all the stories as seen from the above,
with close-ups of the little scenarios and the perfectly readable
texts, and as a background - the visitors down there while helplessly
looking up.
Nedko Solakov stayed at CCA Kitakyushu as a professor of the Research
Program from November 21 to December 20, 2002. |
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