Milena Putnik - Every Day Has a New Tomorrow
September 12, 2008 at 9:16 pm in News Comments Off
Milena Putnik, ‘Bloody Nina’, 2008, oil on canvas, 70 x120 cm
ARC Projects presents a solo show of new work by Belgrade based artist Milena Putnik. Known for her investigation of urban space through painting, photography, performances and publicly sited installations, the artist observes the city around her, providing a means to revitalise experience and see every day anew.
Every Day Has a New Tomorrow is conceived especially for ARC Projects gallery in Sofia, based on research made in Belgrade and Sofia. The exhibition features seven new paintings, plus a photographic installation inspired by two neighbourhoods - the artist’s own in Novi Beograd, and her adopted one along Sofia’s Vitosha Boulevard.
20 September - 25 October 2008
Preview Friday 19 September 2008 7 - 9pm
Exhibition open Wednesday - Saturday, 3 - 8 pm
ARC Projects
4th Floor, 90 Vitosha Boulevard
1463 Sofia, Bulgaria
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Intermission at Threshold artspace
September 11, 2008 at 9:00 pm in News Comments Off
INTERMISSION
curated by Iliyana Nedkova
Threshold artspace
Perth Concert Hall, Horsecross, Mill Street, Perth
15 September - 10 November 2008
In his unassumingly brilliant film Dial M for Murder (1954), Alfred Hitchcock uses the intermission as a suspense device intensifying the thrill of the perfect murder drama. In this exhibition contemporary artists with diverse attitude to the cinematic, approach the intermission as an opportunity to dwell upon our perceptions of abstract and conceptual art – art which is almost embedded into the urban architecture all around us.
View 11 short 22-channel artists’ works showing in a cinematic loop which cycles every hour. These artists’ films and videos were commissioned and acquired as part of the permanent Horsecross collection of contemporary art between 2005-07.
There To Here
September 10, 2008 at 1:57 pm in News Comments Off
THERE TO HERE
an exhibition trail with works from Horsecross Collection of contemporary art curated by Iliyana Nedkova
touring as part of 4th Perthshire Visual Arts Forum 2008
8 – 28 October 2008
Birnam, Perthshire
Mare Tralla Performances
August 24, 2008 at 6:13 pm in News Comments Off
Mare Tralla paints in Edinburgh
ARC Projects presents live performances by artist Mare Tralla as part of the Edinburgh Art Festival and the exhibition Mutatis Mutandis, Embassy Annex, Edinburgh.
Mare Tralla will undertake a series of live easel painting performances, ‘tracking the movements’ of CCTV cameras throughout Edinburgh. The artist evokes this 16th century tradition, which set painters free from the constraints of working on walls or fixed, architectural schemes and increased the social and intellectual status of the individual artist. Details of times and places are below. Facebook users please see also the event page on Facebook.
If you are out and about in Edinburgh you may well spot her at the locations listed below:
25.08 - 10.00-12.00 Waverley Station
26.08 - 11.00 - Nightingale Way
- 17.30 Conference Square, Bread Street
27.08 - 11.00 in front of Haymarket Station
- 16.00 Princes Street
28.08 - 11.00 around the Parliament
- 16.00 by Scottish National Portrait Gallery
29.08 - 11.00 in front of National Gallery Complex
- 12.30 - Calton Road
30.08 - 12.00 - York Place
- 13.00 - North St Andrew Street
31.08 - 12.00 - Edinburgh College of Art, preview of Edinburgh paintings
- 16.30 - Catch Mare from the comfort of The Embassy Bus tour which leaves ECA at 13.30. See The Embassy gallery website for details.
Mare Tralla in Edinburgh
August 2, 2008 at 5:56 pm in News Comments Off
Mare Tralla, exhibition view in ‘Mutatis Mutandis’, Embassy Annex, Edinburgh. Paintings from ‘Protected’ series, 2008, installation, oil on canvas, cardboard, dimensions variable.
ARC Projects presents a residency, exhibition and live performances by artist Mare Tralla as part of the Edinburgh Art Festival.
Our every movement and action today seems to be subject to surveillance. What do we need in order for public and private life to thrive? How can we define spaces that are absolutely free from the prying eyes of officialdom and others? Setting out to explore these and other notions of privacy, security and surveillance, the artist skillfully employs various media and styles, ranging from painting and video, live performance and photography to sculpture.
Mare Tralla’s residency in Edinburgh is accompanied by an exhibition of paintings from her ‘Protected’ series as part of Mutatis Mutandis, at The Embassy Annex, Edinburgh College of Art, 2-31 August.
She will also undertake a series of live easel painting performances, ‘tracking the movements’ of CCTV cameras throughout Edinburgh. The artist evokes this 16th century tradition, which set painters free from the constraints of working on walls or fixed, architectural schemes and increased the social and intellectual status of the individual artist.
Kamen Stoyanov at Manifesta 7
July 23, 2008 at 2:05 pm in News Comments Off
Installing ‘Disneylend Express’ sign at Rovereto train station
ARC Projects roster artist Kamen Stoyanov has created new artworks for Manifesta 7, taking place in Trentino, Italy, 19 July - 2 November 2008. Stoyanov’s work is showing within the context of ‘ManifeSTATION’ curated by The Office for Cognitive Urbanism.
Migration is a central topic for Stoyanov, whether based on economical, political or personal reasons. If one‘s attempts at assimilation fail, there remains nothing but a life at the margins of society, excluded and isolated amidst everyday cultural life – something well known but still foreign. For Manifesta 7, Stoyanov addresses the topic of urban events and art biennials themselves, since they characterize entire cities as cultural territory and thus contain implicit mechanisms of inclusion and exclusion. The cultural homogenization of urban spaces divides the people into those that consume these places and those that have to live in them. The Disneylend Express connects both.
Click on the image below to see a slide show of Kamen Stoyanov’s artwork for Manifesta 7.
Thoughts Within Thoughts
June 18, 2008 at 7:13 pm in News Comments Off
Pravdoliub Ivanov, ‘There Are No Forbidden Thoughts’, 2007
ARC Projects presents Thoughts Within Thoughts - the third curated exhibition in our new gallery space in Sofia. Thoughts Within Thoughts is a double solo show by artists Alec Finlay and Pravdoliub Ivanov. The exhibition investigates artistic collaboration, cognition, play, dialogue and subtle irony through a series of new works by Finlay and Ivanov, some made in collaboration: sculptures, wall drawings, neon and print installations, and live performances all feature. The title encapsulates both artists’ passion for philosophical investigations of logic, absurdity, and language.
21 June - 26 July 2008
Exhibition open Wednesday - Saturday, 3 - 8 pm
Artists’ Performance Saturday 21 June 2008 3 - 5 pm
ARC Projects
4th Floor, 90 Vitosha Boulevard
1463 Sofia, Bulgaria
Primary Ingredients at Threshold artspace
May 27, 2008 at 5:08 pm in News 1 Comment
Primary Ingredients
curated by Iliyana Nedkova
Threshold artspace
Perth Concert Hall, Horsecross, Mill Street, Perth
21 May - 31 August 2008
This summer, Horsecross presents Primary Ingredients, a major new exhibition at Threshold artspace which premieres five new commissions by Vuk Cosic, Alec Finlay, Clive Gillman, Katja Loher and Valentin Stefanoff showing alongside works by Perry Bard and Krassimir Terziev in the context of twelve works drawn from the Horsecross collection. Featured are sixteen artists from nine countries who employ text – anything from letters and symbols, poems and stories to books and films – as primary ingredients in their visual grammar. Their works allow us to go beyond the omnipresent debate whether text gives artists the opportunity to be more direct than they usually are with images. A fresh opportunity to test our assumptions that words have cognitive primacy in the brain of the viewer.
Artists from the Horsecross collection of contemporary media art featured include Claude Closky, Lei Cox, Dan Perjovschi, Janek Schaefer, Thomson & Craighead and Mare Tralla.
Viennafair
April 5, 2008 at 9:07 pm in News Comments Off
ARC Projects will participate in international art fair Viennafair, 24-27 April 2008. We will present new works by Kamen Stoyanov, Kosta Tonev and Iva Vacheva.
Multiplicities
December 5, 2007 at 6:54 pm in News Comments Off
Luchezar Boyadjiev
Susan Collins
Alec Finlay
Alla Georgieva
Ivan Moudov
Kamen Stoyanov
Thomson & Craighead
Mare Tralla
15 December 2007 - 26 January 2008
Preview 14 December, 7 - 9 pm (by invitation)
Exhibition open Wednesday - Saturday, 3 - 8 pm
Festive closure from 22 December, open again 3 January
Multiplicities is the first group exhibition at ARC Projects featuring half our current roster of sixteen artists - four based in the UK and four in Bulgaria. This is the first exhibition in a Sofia gallery for mid-career international artists Susan Collins, Alec Finlay, Thomson & Craighead and Mare Tralla. This is also the first occasion their work will be seen alongside that of their Bulgarian peers Luchezar Boyadjiev, Alla Georgieva, Ivan Moudov and Kamen Stoyanov.
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