15 March (Tuesday), 7 p.m., Credo Bonum Gallery, 2 Slavyanska Str. are the when and where of the start of \u201cThe Big Bang\u201d, the first exhibition to take place in the renovated space of the Credo Bonum Foundation established by Tzvetelina Borislavova.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Big Bang\u201d is a project by curator Svetlana Kuyumdzhieva, in which the theory of how the Universe came into being is a symbol of an ending and a beginning.<\/p>\n
The exhibition recreates a different world that has grown out of the lessons and the dramatic environmental threats and catastrophes of our time. It is a world that takes shape in darkness and in post-apocalyptic conditions in which documents and myths, fiction and reality merge into one.<\/p>\n
The project\u2019s idea comprises a set of problems about the relationships between man and his surroundings in the context of climate change. Drawing on the energy of contemporary Bulgarian artists and designers, the \u201cBang\u201d is an experiment that turns the gallery into a laboratory. Through 30 April the space will host an unusual, artificially created and mutated ecosystem whose aim is to point up certain drastic problems and offer some solutions.<\/p>\n
New, adapted species; piles of waste packaging; guerrilla gardening; threats from outer space; environmentally responsible architecture; the emotions and sensations that stir the people living on \u201cDesert Earth\u201d after a colossal environmental catastrophe; the consequences of human presence\u2014these are the new world\u2019s building blocks.<\/p>\n
Some of the works have been created specially for the exhibition, and will be displayed for the first time.<\/p>\n
The participating artists are Svetozara Alexandrova, Ivo Bistrichki, Rada Boukova, Petko Dourmana, Nikola Enchev\/Juliana Mori, Simeon Stoilov, Krassimir Terziev, Sofia Hristozova\/Marta Dimitrova, Veronika Tzekova.<\/p>\n
The opening reception will take place at 7 p.m. on 15 March at the Credo Bonum Gallery, 2 Slavyanska Str. <\/p>\n
The exhibition in detail<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cThe Big Bang\u201d will be inhabited by Bio-Sapiens, a sculpture by Svetozara Alexandrova that will be in the care of the gallery\u2019s guests for a month and a half. Lethal Vintage is the artist\u2019s other work, which draws attention to the consequences that a toxic industry has for people\u2019s health.<\/p>\n People\u2019s sensations and impressions in simulated post-apocalyptic conditions are part of Petko Dourmana\u2019s project Post Global Warming Survival Kit, presented as video documentation.<\/p>\n Krasimir Terziev\u2019s A Message form Space in my Backyard is a study of the so-called \u201ctrashsphere\u201d\u2014the mountains of garbage than humans throw out while in space.<\/p>\n Veronika Tsekova presents the latest installment of her long-term guerrilla gardening project WUMAMPAROI (When you make a mistake put a rose on it). She now invites the audience to join a series of actions aimed at improving the environment.<\/p>\n An asteroid on a menacing course towards the Earth and an ancient Egypt\u2019s god of chaos were the inspiration for Apophis, a sculptural object by Simeon Stoilov. The work doubles as a symbol for how relationships work in contemporary society.<\/p>\n Nikola Enchev and Stefan Vankov, the winners of the 2011 edition of the Design Against the Elements competition, present for the first time in Bulgaria their project for dwellings that can withstand changes in climate.<\/p>\n Environmentally responsible architecture is the underlying value in the projects of the architect Nikolay Marinov. His popularity stems from his active work as an environmentalist and a researcher of authentic traditional modes of building.<\/p>\n With the simplicity of action and form that mark all her works, Rada Boukova, in her video Tube, adds an additional, metaphorical meaning to the interaction between man and environment. The piece is accompanied by an odd, ironic object called Baggage.<\/p>\n Bora Petkova and Juliana Mori offer Mathing Horizons, a project in which the romantic green horizon of a landscape in an object found on a dumpsite is overlaid on reality.<\/p>\n Changes in the fauna at Chernobyl and the story of that ravaged place are the sources of Mutations by Ivo Bistrichki (April 26, 2011 marks the 25th anniversary of the Chernobyl\u2019s nuclear power plant disaster).<\/p>\n The gallery floor is awash with piles of the ceramic \u201cpackaging\u201d of Sofia Hristozova and Marta Dimitorva. Their 365, an installation with bottles, is accompanied by Water\u2019s Finished, a monument to a diminishing natural resource.<\/p>\n The exhibition puts on view also rare publications about sustainable development, as well as reports from the 2009 Copenhagen Climate Change Conference. These documents are kept in a special library at the Community Centre Future Now.<\/p>\n The gallery\u2019s own library is arranged with furniture designed by Konstantin Achkov and Petar Zaharinov.<\/p>\n By way of a documentary, the exhibition features a selection of films provided by the Network for Sustainable Exchange Alive Places.<\/p>\n The Credo Bonum Gallery extends appreciation to Teodor Vasilev, Yovo Panchev, Vera Mlechevska, Antonina Ilieva, Maria Dobreva, Delyan Spasov, as well as to the Credo Bonum Foundation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 15 March (Tuesday), 7 p.m., Credo Bonum Gallery, 2 Slavyanska Str.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3728,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[128],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exhibitions"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/credobonum.bg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/credobonum.bg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/credobonum.bg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/credobonum.bg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/credobonum.bg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3727"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/credobonum.bg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3730,"href":"https:\/\/credobonum.bg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3727\/revisions\/3730"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/credobonum.bg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/credobonum.bg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/credobonum.bg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/credobonum.bg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}