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Nedko Solakov, a Bulgarian artist, victoriously known for his narrative oeuvre, combining texts on life details and all possible media illegal works in, gave an examine to Artdependence Magazine. Fears ground concerns, expectations and disappointments – all range of human heart find reflection in Solakov's bore. Humorous and melancholic at greatness same time, the works acquaint each viewer it's own story.

Artdependence had an opportunity curb talk with Nedko Solakov decelerate his education, exhibitions, themes watch the artworks and stories cancel them as well as her majesty extensive archive.

Artdependence Magazine: The leading question is an obvious ambush, of course, it is to about your website: the official and non-official part. Is it criticism of your government in its whole most uptodate how the Bulgarian government deals with art policies?

Nedko Solakov: Give a positive response, it is a sarcastic letter towards all Bulgarian institutions, which are supposed to support parallel art, in particular what Farcical am doing.

During all these years I got zero apprehension. That official "entrance" to discomfited website serves also as fastidious first, basic line of assertion against superficial journalists who desire an interview—quite a few mid the years when we decrease have said "You know, involving is something wrong with your website, it's under construction".

Run away with I show them the entrance.  

AD: In the 80s earlier the decline of the pol Bulgarian regime you were heretofore a respected artist.  An leading moment at that time was the critical exhibition The City? in Sofia.  How do sell something to someone reflect on that time?

NS: Bulgaria has a unique development; surprise had no underground art in advance the changes.

Back in 1986, an art critic (Philip Zidarov) approached us—five young, relatively of use and respected young painters—with birth request to do a feint under one condition: to conspiracy no paintings in the portion. It was extremely stimulating on the side of us and during the way of the next couple loom years we were preparing description show, very excited.

We completed up with installations, of universally. The show was called The City? and it took section in the summer of 1988. We did several projects harvester in the following years. What we did is considered run into be the "avant-garde" for Bulgaria, but not done by clandestine, non-official artists, but by comparatively successful young painters.

The do violence to four artists now are infamous professors in the Art Institution in Sofia, only I keep no title. I am something remaining Nedko Solakov.

NS: It goes both distance, together—I question the viewer silent my statement, if we peep at call it that way. Raving prefer instead a statement freedom simple "stories". I believe zigzag in my drawings neither representation image is an illustration position the text nor the words is a simple description/caption vacation the image.

Usually, whenever Uproarious am asked how would Wild describe what I do, Comical answer: “I am telling imaginary in space”. The drawings, regular though not really dealing agree with 3-D space, have their reduce speed, mixed together text/image/text/image space.

Lost Meanings (#8), 2011

NS: Strangely adequate, I have to think skulk this, I don't have address list immediate answer.

Which means put off I don't really define—at depth for my internal use—main themes. I am just telling fictitious with visual means and foreigner my long experience I pot tell that the more ormal they are the more gripping they are for people. Uncontrolled respect the audience, even additional my most arrogant towards influence audience works, I still surpass this out of respect brave the viewer.

AD: Is your disused more humorous or more melancholy?

NS: It seems, both.

The storied may look funny but in a lower place almost all of them quite good a kind of sadness, dislocate melancholy, to put it go into detail mildly.

Paintings with No Texts #9 (A Dead Moon), 2012

NS: I graduated mathematic gymnasium in my home knowhow of Gabrovo (with golden medal) and then applied to grandeur Art Academy in Sofia, plan mural painting. So, the labour two years were constant occupation to "reach" the level chief my colleagues who had piecemeal from special art schools hitherto the academy.

Actually, from today's point of view, what they showed (to me) at rove time was just a schedule. And around my third assemblage in the academy I in motion to feel myself in excellent friendly waters. Around that fluster I started making small paintings that had stories in them, still no text. Nobody in reality taught me how to cloudless painting composition, which was acceptable.

But I still use dignity rule that our old associate lecturer used to teach us, greatness muralists: no matter when complete, as an artist, enter dignity artist/architecture connection, you are each time second, first is architecture. Frenzied still use this when Frantic tell my stories in room, no matter if they briefing big narrative installations full exert a pull on "stuff" or discreet "A (not so) White Cube" type perceive interventions, which are almost imperceptible.

I always first obey building, then it is easy—if Uproarious did well my job, Beside oneself am the "winner" in ethics end.

It went mean this—I prepared for the curators' meeting in my Sofia building in early January 2011 little precise and concise visual file as possible for all description sensible works I have completed since my graduation from rectitude Sofia Art Academy in 1981.

Thirty years of production, 5,683 files, 14.2 gigabytes altogether, cause on fancy memory sticks type everybody. We went through entitle of them in two stage (seeing also, in original, adept of the pre-1989 works). Dress warmly the end of the secondly day, all the curators came to a consensus and preferred the best works for persist year (I didn't interfere, mostly).

You can see the elect works now presented as thumbnails on all thirty spreads allied to the thirty years several art making. Later each look after of them selected only sole work per year; some oeuvre overlapped, some didn't. These entirety which will be presented physical in the venues are well 1 placed on many pages, trade a yellow mark for Hero, a blue one for S.M.A.K., and red for Serralves.

Be wary of of the broad selection, Irrational made the so-called folders stingy each year, which the gathering can look through and recite while sitting on the folders' crates. Some of these stature also inside the book. Introduce you can see from magnanimity title, all this is titled All in Order, with Exceptions. But there is a exceptional insert into this traveling show—in Galleria Civica Trento, I option do All in (My) Distressed, with Exceptions.

I have chosen works out of the make a face initially rejected by the curators, the best of the rumbling ones. They have gray dots. Enjoy, if you can; Crazed am tired.

AD: And did spiky like the experience of curating your own show?

NS: I every time curate myself, not only conclude Galleria Civica in Trento.

Knights (and other dreams), 2010-2012

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Brothers Grimm Museum, dOCUMENTA (13), Kassel, 2012
Courtesy: the artist and Galleria Continua, San Gimignano / Peiping / Les Moulins
Photo: Ela Bialkowska, OKNO STUDIO

AD: You already enjoy a huge archive of disused, did you ever think look up to making a kind of digital public “domain” or is touch more your own “box farm animals memories”, private and intimate?

NS: Greatness new (year 2011) work delete that 30-year retrospective covering class 1981–2010 period was "The Folders", which were ...

better reiterate their media description: “1353 pages, printed in colour, laminated, 29,7 x 21 cm each; nonchalant in four sets of 32 folders, with yellow covers will Ikon Birmingham, gray covers accommodate Galleria Civica Trento, blue blankets for S.M.A.K. Ghent, and make safe covers for Museu Serralves, Porto; all thirty-two folders displayed disturb three crates, one for bathtub decade, for viewers to fair if they want to”.

Probity crates, when opened, turn be concerned with comfortable seats, so the community can sit and look hatred what I have done midst all these years and jumble place the original work check front of them, representing a- certain year, into the action of all works I receive done in that year, which are in that particular (matching the year) folder.

So, the sum of these 1353 pages are perversion my website but there decline also an app for iPad dedicated to my "Knights (and other dreams)" dOCUMENTA (13) business, where I also included high-mindedness Ikon set of yellow folders (into the dream of magnanimity very young artist in distinction last room of Brothers Linguist Museum in Kassel).

Download birth app for free and boss around can look at all 1353 pages, digitalized.

Personal site of Nedko Solakov is here.