KIRIL PRASHKOV
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KIRIL PRASHKOV
Speaking Cobblestones, 1998/2003 These last years I haven´t been able to get rid of the feeling that after the recent changes, artists in our part of Europe definitely lost their “social weight”, at least for two or three generations to come. I also think that in Bulgaria this period might turn out to be even longer, after reality dampened the dream to becoming an EU member state (see the example of Greece). Active people will be eager to use their new passports in order to leave the country, and to escape the “Orthodox-Tourist Monarchy” that is now in place. At the same time, it’s interesting enough to watch how artistic work becomes invisible, and tries to use its invisibility to sneak up to the inattentive public, even to ambush it from some hidden position. I became aware that my work has to dissolve into the movement of everyday life, to try to become as natural as possible. Even if something needs to be said loudly, my preference is to release it wearing the unassuming mask of a non-exotic, the familiar. Some of the tactics I use are to offer the piece, to be found or not by chance, by the viewer himself, or to use a material not different from the surroundings. In a way it reminds me of when I was making mainly pen-and-ink drawings in the “previous period”; I thought it was better just to fill them with “background” only... Kiril Prashkov |