Encapsulation: Forms – Objects – Ideas / exhibition by Pavlin Radevski

“Encapsulation: Forms – Objects – Ideas” is a project the sculptor Pavlin Radevski has created especially for the light-bathed space of the Credo Bonum Gallery. Mr Radevski has used the gallery’s hall as a host for a new, glassed environment in which to exhibit his works.

A transparent but tangible screen keeps the audience at a distance. The daylight, streaming through the gallery’s skylight, gives the works of art an additional push of dematerialization. An important component here is the spectator, intentionally kept at bay. The solution sought is how he or she views and grasps the work of art.

Mr Radevski’s central thesis are the specifics of how art forms live. He uses heavy plastic pig-iron volumes, dipping them into transparent resin. They go down, sinking into weightlessness. The play of the light and the various shades of the material’s colour further deprive the volumes of their physical weight and materiality. The audience is led into the hall in order to experience an architectural space organized in a novel fashion: glass, light and the heavy sculptural mass follow unreal laws of gravity, at once close to and far removed from the senses.

Pavlin Radevski (1975) graduated in Sculpture from the National Academy of Arts in Sofia in 2001 under Prof Angel Stanev. He has had a series of solo exhibitions so far, and was among the organizers of »No Distance«, a programmatic exhibition which showcased the works of 21 young sculptors in the Raiko Alexiev Gallery in 2015. Mr Radevski was awarded the First Prize in Sculpture of the Sts Kiril and Methodius Foundation in 2003.