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MILKO PAVLOV: CHANCE ENCOUNTERS IN ADDED TIME
Sofia Arsenal – Museum of Contemporary Art
Curator: Nadezhda Dzhakova, PhD
In the infinite multifariousness of images, Milko Pavlov discovers fragments: colourful segments, which he sticks together creating novel, different spaces. They do not belong to the present, nor do they tell the past. Pictorial dimensions have their own, singular time, added by the artist, unnamed, but certainly in the future. In Milko Pavlov’s case, the process of dating ‘in the future time’ has continued over the past twenty years.
Dating also appears in the titles of his works. It is not only inscribed on their reverse, but also on the walls of the gallery, infusing it in the same way as architecture is ‘present’ among the artist’s paintings. The artwork is no longer simply confined within its frame of a two-dimensional plane, but a pictorial field that emerges from the wall, blocks an intermediate door, and ‘climbs up’ a column. These small expositional teasers on the part of the curator are in response to the artist and his search for image/non-image, visible/invisible, or present/future.
This exhibition developed from several years of conversations between the artist and the curator from Sofia Arsenal. Milko Pavlov has lived and worked in Berlin for many years. He also travels frequently to Sofia. The artworks on display were produced especially for the museum, upon each of his returns to Bulgaria.
Nadezhda Dzhakova, PhD
Curator: Nadezhda Dzhakova, PhD
In the infinite multifariousness of images, Milko Pavlov discovers fragments: colourful segments, which he sticks together creating novel, different spaces. They do not belong to the present, nor do they tell the past. Pictorial dimensions have their own, singular time, added by the artist, unnamed, but certainly in the future. In Milko Pavlov’s case, the process of dating ‘in the future time’ has continued over the past twenty years.
Dating also appears in the titles of his works. It is not only inscribed on their reverse, but also on the walls of the gallery, infusing it in the same way as architecture is ‘present’ among the artist’s paintings. The artwork is no longer simply confined within its frame of a two-dimensional plane, but a pictorial field that emerges from the wall, blocks an intermediate door, and ‘climbs up’ a column. These small expositional teasers on the part of the curator are in response to the artist and his search for image/non-image, visible/invisible, or present/future.
This exhibition developed from several years of conversations between the artist and the curator from Sofia Arsenal. Milko Pavlov has lived and worked in Berlin for many years. He also travels frequently to Sofia. The artworks on display were produced especially for the museum, upon each of his returns to Bulgaria.
Nadezhda Dzhakova, PhD