{"id":3905,"date":"2022-01-24T12:36:11","date_gmt":"2022-01-24T09:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/credobonum.bg\/en\/?p=3905"},"modified":"2025-05-05T17:21:31","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T14:21:31","slug":"101-paintings-exhibition-by-nedko-solakov","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/credobonum.bg\/en\/101-paintings-exhibition-by-nedko-solakov\/","title":{"rendered":"10+1 Paintings \/ Exhibition by Nedko Solakov"},"content":{"rendered":"

Opening: Thursday, 3 February, 18:00 \u2013 20:00\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The exhibition is open until 5 March 2022.<\/span><\/p>\n

Credo Bonum Gallery, 2 Slavyanska Str., entrance from Benkovski Str.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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In the summer and autumn of 2021, Nedko Solakov created a series of 10 paintings, all in the same format. For these works, he chose the classic size of 130\/162 cm (standardized in 19<\/span>th<\/span>-century France for <\/span>figurative<\/span> painting). As soon as he finished the series, he realized that the choice of this size in his work was not accidental. He has been working with so-called \u201cFrench formats\u201d since his student years in the 1970s. Today, the latest series of 10 paintings, arranged in the order of their creation, are on display in Credo Bonum Gallery, accompanied by one \u201c+\u201d painting. It is a mystical landscape created in 1987, the first of nearly 50 paintings in this format painted since then.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Nedko Solakov is a brilliant storyteller. In these paintings he simultaneously paints and narrates, adding text directly to the canvases in his trademark style. Whether among intense picturesque spots that immerse the canvas in the hot geyser of summer heat, or in an abstract black abyss, or in an open blue sky, tiny people live with their worries and joys. We find stories about a \u201ccertified moron\u201d, about a <\/span>\u201cman who wants to radically change his life by going back into his mother\u2019s womb\u201d, <\/span>about the lie that was \u201casked if she could possibly not lie today\u201d, about \u201csinners feeling okay in hell\u201d, and many others. In one of the paintings, the artist depicted himself, while the text below reads: \u201cAdapting to the surrounding world, to its non-alive part first\u201d.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Since the early 1990s, Nedko Solakov<\/a> (b. 1957, Cherven Bryag, Bulgaria; lives in Sofia) has exhibited extensively in Europe and the US. His work was featured in Aperto\u201993 (Venice Biennial); the 48<\/span>th<\/span>, 49<\/span>th<\/span>, 50<\/span>th<\/span> and 52<\/span>nd<\/span> Venice Biennial; the 3<\/span>rd<\/span>, 4<\/span>th<\/span> and 9<\/span>th<\/span> Istanbul Biennial; S\u00e3o Paulo\u201994; Manifesta 1, Rotterdam; the 2<\/span>nd<\/span> and 4<\/span>th<\/span> Gwangju Biennial; the 5<\/span>th<\/span> Lyon Biennial, Sonsbeek 9, Arnhem, the 4<\/span>th<\/span> and 5<\/span>th<\/span> Cetinje Biennial, the 1<\/span>st<\/span> Lodz Biennial; the 7<\/span>th<\/span> Sharjah Biennial, United Arab Emirates; the 3<\/span>rd<\/span> Tirana Biennial; the 2<\/span>nd<\/span> Seville Biennial; the 2<\/span>nd<\/span> Moscow Biennial; documenta 12; 16<\/span>th<\/span> Sydney Biennial; Prospect 1, New Orleans Biennial, Singapore Biennial 2011, dOCUMENTA (13), Kathmandu Triennale, 1st Riga International Biennial for Contemporary Art and Lahore Biennale 2. He had solo shows at Museu do Chiado, Lisbon; Stichting De Appel, Amsterdam; CCA Kitakyushu, Japan; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sof\u00eda, Madrid; The Israel Museum, Jerusalem; Centre d\u2019Art Santa Monica, Barcelona; Kunsthaus Zurich; Castello di Rivoli, Rivoli; Sofia City Art Gallery; Galleria Borghese, Rome; Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg; BOZAR, Brussels; ICA Sofia, La Panacee, Montpellier and Mudam Luxembourg, Mus\u00e9e d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean. In 2003-2005 an extensive mid-career “A 12 1\/3 (and even more) Year Survey” was presented at Casino Luxembourg, Rooseum Malmoe and O.K Centrum Linz, and in 2008-2009 the \u201cEmotions\u201d solo project was exhibited at Kunstmuseum Bonn, Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, and Institut Mathildenhoehe, Darmstadt. In 2011-2012 his retrospective \u201cAll in Order, with Exceptions\u201d was presented at Ikon Gallery, Birmingham; Fondazione Galleria Civica Trento (\u201cAll in (My) Order, with Exceptions\u201d), S.M.A.K., Ghent and Funda\u00e7\u00e3o de Serralves, Porto. His works belong to more than fifty international museums and public collections, among them MoMA New York, Tate Modern, London and Center Pompidou, Paris.<\/span><\/p>\n

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