In 1999 the sculptors took part in the Soros Art Centre
annual exhibition ‘Culture/Subculture’ by blocking the entrance to the Sea
Garden in Varna with 3000 metal vinegar crates (grouped in 5 modules of 15
metres length altogether and 3.6 metres height) to create their piece of work
called ‘A Bar – Defraction – Passing Through’. Despite the aisles allowing
the passers-by to go through it and become actively involved, the municipal
authorities ordered that the composition should be deconstructed on the fourth
day. According to eyewitnesses the composition was estimated very precisely:
‘it was a bar to movement without provoking people’s discontent’. It was
accepted as an original filter placed by the authors at an active point of
the town environment in order to make us look at life in a different way.
For an instant, the passer-by remains in nobody’s land, between now and beyond,
between here and there, between himself and the others.
A BAR-DEFRACTION-PASSINGTROUGHT"SIXTH ANNUAL EXHIBITION
OF SOROS CENTER FOR THE ARTS .ILKO NIKOLCHEV, YOHANNES ARTINYAN, KAMEN TSVETKOV,
PANCHO KURTEV.VARNA-3000 WRAPPING CASSETTES 1500/360/360 CM .1999
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