June 5th - 11th,
2004 - Openning June 5th, 6:00pm
Chamber Exhibition, by Bulgarian artist, Nikolay Petkov
Every day the contemporary man encounters tens, even hundreds of designed
images produced by the advertising, entertainment, politics, sports, and
media industries. To accomplish their task of selling specific products
or behavior these images must have an intensity that produces a fast,
almost immediate impact on the not-so-innocent gaze of the spectator.
As an artist concerned with the creation of stable and lasting image-objects,
I decided to survey the reverse relation between an image’s intensity
and its possible exposure time. The works in this exhibition are based
on the assumption that reducing an image’s intensity increases its
resistance. Thus pictures as reduced intensity images are more able to
bear and attract a viewer’s multifaceted approach and recurring
interest, allowing them to function as works of art today.
Includes
Series “Strokes A/G” – 7 sheets, 50x65cm each, 2003
Series “Observations A/F” – 6 sheets, 50x65cm each, 2003
“Generic/Genetic”– 50x65cm
Series “Squares A/D” – 4 sheets, 50x60cm each, 2004
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