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KAMEN STARTCHEV | WEATHER DETERIORATION
Sofia Arsenal – Museum of Contemporary Art
The exhibition includes the artist’s latest works, created in recent years in his idiosyncratic style: large-format compositions of geometric, graphic elements building momentary states of time and place. Kamen Startchev is laconic in his commentary on the current temporal continuum of political cataclysms: military conflicts, looming dictatorships, and ideological clashes against the backdrop of global environmental concerns involving sweeping hurricanes, fires and earthquakes.
‘Weather Deterioration’ does not offer an apocalyptic existence of humanity today; it does not stigmatise, or condemn, but builds almost invisible states of the here and now in our everyday lives. The artist extracts those details from reality that are devoid of concreteness, functionality or heavy symbolism. Their additional purification in terms of form and colour, and their inclusion in a common compositional rhythm, deprive them of any possibility of subject matter and didactic narrative.
Media partner: BTA / Bulgarian News Agency
Nadezhda Dzhakova, PhD, exhibition curator
The exhibition includes the artist’s latest works, created in recent years in his idiosyncratic style: large-format compositions of geometric, graphic elements building momentary states of time and place. Kamen Startchev is laconic in his commentary on the current temporal continuum of political cataclysms: military conflicts, looming dictatorships, and ideological clashes against the backdrop of global environmental concerns involving sweeping hurricanes, fires and earthquakes.
‘Weather Deterioration’ does not offer an apocalyptic existence of humanity today; it does not stigmatise, or condemn, but builds almost invisible states of the here and now in our everyday lives. The artist extracts those details from reality that are devoid of concreteness, functionality or heavy symbolism. Their additional purification in terms of form and colour, and their inclusion in a common compositional rhythm, deprive them of any possibility of subject matter and didactic narrative.
Media partner: BTA / Bulgarian News Agency
Nadezhda Dzhakova, PhD, exhibition curator