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ARC Projects Gallery closed

ARC Projects gallery interior.

ARC Projects gallery is now closed. There will be no further programme of exhibitions in the space at 90 Vitosha Boulevard, Sofia. Gallery directors Chris Byrne and Iliyana Nedkova have moved on to new projects. We are still taking sales enquiries related to certain artists formerly represented by the gallery. If you wish to get in touch, please see the contact details above.

Portuguese Waves at Threshold artspace

Still from Mauro Cerqueira, O Salto – Serin and Rich / The Jump – Serin and Rich, 2008.

Portuguese Waves

Joana Bastos
Mauro Cerqueira
Susana Mendes Silva

Portuguese Waves is the finale of a five-part ten month series of new commissions, exhibitions and events celebrating the contemporary art of Portugal.
Curated by Iliyana Nedkova and Filipa Oliveira
3 April – 10 August 2010
Open Monday to Saturday, 10am – 6pm or late on performance evenings. Admission always free
Threshold artspace , Perth Concert Hall, Mill Street, Perth PH1 5HZ, Scotland

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Joana Bastos: No Money, No Honey at Threshold artspace

Joana Bastos: No Money, No Honey

The first solo show in the UK by this critically acclaimed Portuguese artist. The third in a five-part ten month series of new commissions, exhibitions and events Portuguese Waves celebrating the vibrant Portuguese contemporary art culture.
Curated by Iliyana Nedkova and Filipa Oliveira
14 February – 13 March 2010
Open Monday to Saturday, 10am – 6pm or late on performance evenings. Admission always free
Threshold artspace , Perth Concert Hall, Mill Street, Perth PH1 5HZ, Scotland

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Book Review: Jeremy Howard “East European Art 1650-1950”

A review by Chris Byrne of Jeremy Howard’s book East European Art 1650-1950 can be found at the ARTMargins web site

Susana Mendes Silva at Threshold artspace

Susana Mendes Silva

The first solo show in the UK by this internationally acclaimed Portuguese artist. The second in a five-part ten month series of new commissions, exhibitions and events Portuguese Waves celebrating the vibrant Portuguese contemporary art culture.
Curated by Iliyana Nedkova and Filipa Oliveira
14 January – 13 February 2010
Open Monday to Saturday, 10am – 6pm or late on performance evenings. Admission always free
Threshold artspace , Perth Concert Hall, Mill Street, Perth PH1 5HZ, Scotland

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Cinematic at Threshold artspace

Still from José Maçãs de Carvalho, To President (Drinking Version), 2005-07.

Cinematic

Helena Almeida
José Maçãs de Carvalho
Luisa Cunha
Cristina Mateus
Adriana Molder
Jorge Molder
João Pombeiro
António Olaio
Sara & André
Julião Sarmento
João Tabarra

A group exhibition exploring the relationship between the language of film and contemporary art. The first in a five-part ten month series of new commissions, exhibitions and events Portuguese Waves celebrating the vibrant Portuguese contemporary art culture.
Curated by Iliyana Nedkova and Filipa Oliveira
14 November 2009 – 13 January 2010
Open Monday to Saturday, 10am – 6pm or late on performance evenings. Admission always free
Threshold artspace , Perth Concert Hall, Mill Street, Perth PH1 5HZ, Scotland

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Review of Vuk Ćosić show in ARTMargins

A review by Chris Byrne of Vuk Ćosić: Out Of Character at Threshold artspace can be found at the ARTMargins web site

Vuk Ćosić: Out Of Character at Threshold artspace

Out of Character by Vuk Ćosić
The first solo exhibition in Scotland by this internationally recognised artist
Curated by Iliyana Nedkova
1 August – 1 November 2009
Open Monday to Saturday, 10am – 6pm or late on performance evenings. Admission always free
Threshold artspace , Perth Concert Hall, Mill Street, Perth PH1 5HZ, Scotland

Game Flags (2009)
A site-specific outdoors installation satirising the intersection of vintage computer games, colour field aesthetics and national symbolism. Commissioned as part of Players – an ongoing strand in the Horsecross collection exploring the relationship of contemporary art and gaming culture. Horsecross’ first commission of contemporary art for Perth city centre is sited on banner posts in the urban environment around the building which houses the Threshold artspace.

ASCII Wave (2009)
A multi-channel video installation as part of Ćosić’s ongoing project to translate culture from one obsolete format to another. Scenes from twenty classic films ranging from Workers Leaving the Lumière’s Factory Gates (1895) to The Matrix (1999) are converted into retro-futuristic moving images using ASCII code. Ćosić creates visual havoc by exposing ‘the ones and zeros’ of which popular cinema icons are made. Horsecross’ latest commission for Threshold Wave – an array of 22 flat, 40-inch screens dominating the artspace.

ASCII Unreal (2009)
A large-scale installation of Ćosić’s reworking of the seminal video game Unreal Tournament through streaming ASCII. Foregrounding text as the primary ingredient in the artist’s visual grammar, this work features extruded Cyrillic characters set adrift in darkened skies and unrecognizable letterforms shipwrecked in a sea of squiggly tildes. Acquired as part of Players for the Horsecross collection of contemporary art and showing at Threshold Stage as a large-scale wall projection.

History of Art for Airports and Toilets (2009)
An 8-channel video installation of Ćosić’s public signage poetics work. Compressing art history from Michelangelo’s La Pietà (1499) to Heath Bunting’s BorderXing Guide (2001–2011) the artist creates a new desktop iconography resonating with Brian Eno’s Music for Airports (1978). Acquired as part of Horsecross collection of contemporary art and showing at Threshold Flush – distributed flat screens in each of the public toilets.

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Marketplace

Peppers on display at the Women’s Market, Sofia. Photography Kevin Walsh.

ARC Projects hosts a presentation of artworks by a diverse range of artists over the period of a year. The concept is to provide a venue for the display and sale of a number of works, most of which have not been seen in Sofia before. Instead of showcasing solo exhibitions by gallery artists, ARC Projects will be showing limited edition prints, original drawings and paintings, and photographs by numerous artists within and outwith the gallery roster. The display will change on a regular basis over the course of the year.

Unlike previous ARC Projects exhibitions there will be no preview, no wine reception and no guest list because the idea is to have a long running display where visitors can call for an appointment to pop in and have a look.

The first iteration of Marketplace features artworks by Bulgarian and international artists, including including Alla Georgieva, Nina Kovacheva, Pravdoliub Ivanov, Ivan Moudov, Milena Putnik, Kosta Tonev, Valentin Stefanoff, Mare Tralla, Iva Vacheva.

Further details on the artists and artworks will appear here soon: bookmark this page for updates.

1 May 2009 – 30 April 2010
Exhibition open by appointment only
ARC Projects
4th Floor, 90 Vitosha Boulevard
1463 Sofia, Bulgaria

ARC Projects Major Sponsor LIA company, Sofia.

Visit our web site for more information: www.arcprojects.org

Igor Krenz at Threshold artspace

CIRCLES AND SQUARES by Igor Krenz
The first solo exhibition in Britain by this internationally acclaimed Polish artist
Co-curated by Iliyana Nedkova and Urszula Sniegowska
Saturday 4 April – Thursday 7 May 2009
Open Monday to Saturday, 10am – 6pm or late on performance evenings. Admission always free
Threshold artspace , Perth Concert Hall, Mill Street, Perth PH1 5HZ, Scotland www.horsecross.co.uk

BRUNCH PREVIEW
Sunday 5 April 2009 11am-1pm
Artist Igor Krenz and curators Iliyana Nedkova and Urszula Sniegowska lead an informal guided tour and present exclusive screening of selected artist’s video works
Sunday brunch provided. Admission free. RSVP inedkova “at” horsecross.co.dot.uk

SELECTED ARTIST’S VIDEOS (2005-08)
The UK premiere of 4 recent works by Igor Krenz on a 15 minute loop for one weekend only
Saturday 4 April and Sunday 5 April 2009 10am-4pm at Norie-Miller Studio, Perth Concert Hall.
Admission free. All welcome.

CURATOR’S GUIDED TOURS
By prior arrangement with Iliyana Nedkova, Horsecross Creative Director (Contemporary Art) at inedkova “at” horsecross.co.dot.uk.
Admission free. All welcome.

YOUTUBE VIDEO MIX
Igor Krenz picks and mixes his own YouTube favourites. Take a journey from legendary John Cage concerts through New York cinema of transgression to Polish underground Warsaw Band with seven films which struck, bemused or fascinated Krenz.
Threshold artspace YouTube channel

READ MORE
Horsecross’ Journal for Critical Writing: ISSN 1755-0866: Issue 10 | 2009: Igor Krenz
Featuring a newly commissioned essay by Wroclaw-based curator and critic Piotr Krajewski exploring Krenz’ new commission in relation to the artist’s ouevre to date.
Free and downloadable from www.horsecross.co.uk

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