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genre:
temporary installation in public space
Year:
2021-2023
dimensions:
ø 10 m, height 45 cm, depth 40 cm
technical details:
three-dimensional, double-illuminated letters
Location:
the site of the former mausoleum of Georgi Dimitrov
Author:
Krassimir Terziev
curator public events programme:
Vladiya Mihaylova
Architect:
archt Delcho Delchev
Constructor:
engr Galya Krumova
Engineer:
engr Miroslav Yamakov
3D modelling:
Jelko Terziev
typography consultant:
Kiril Zlatkov
special thanks!:
Malina Edreva, Bulgarian center for Not-for-Profit Law, Nadya Shabani, Radina Banova-Stoeva, Maria Vassileva, Adelina Fileva, Lyubov Kostova, Angel Terziev
commissioned by: Fabrication: With the support of:
"Outside" Programme of Sofia Municipality Neon BG LTD Structura Gallery
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Artists have long used the text as a means of expression, and for specialists and connoisseurs of contemporary art, the difference between reading and reading is quite clear.

[...] the new installation on the site of the demolished mausoleum rather offers us the intermediate state of a contingent present, sandwiched "Between the past that is about to happen and the future that has already been." The conceptual work of Krasimir Terziev aims to bring to life the historical public place, where the burden of an absence, of a once powerful presence that seems to have left no one unparticipated, still weighs. The enchanted circle of the composition pessimistically locks us in the past, in repeating the same thing, and the neon light has a flashy, warning character - a ghost still roams Bulgaria. But it seems that the time has come for an exorcism in the processes of rethinking the urban space, as we see in the long-delayed dismantling of the Monument to the Soviet Army.

On the day of the elections for representatives in the National and the European Parliament, we talk with the presenter of the program "Voice of the Time" on BNR/Hristo Botev, Nadezhda Moskovska and the philosopher Dimitar Bozhkov about the current issues surrounding the installation: how the text works in the spatial, echo, resistances, recognition and various other effects of the presence of the work in the public space.

He should be the most famous artist in Bulgaria at the moment. But he is not.

The most famous and discussed these days is his work on the site of the former mausoleum - "Between the past that is about to happen and the future that has already been". The installation officially opened at the end of April and will remain there for a year. The work of the visual artist won in 2022 the second edition of the "Outside" program of the Metropolitan Municipality. A few days ago, the joint exhibition "Egg from a cow, milk from a hen" by Zelko Terziev, Kalina Dimitrova and Krasimir Terziev was presented in the Art Gallery - Dobrich. The exhibition presents a selection of works created in the period 2000–2024.

[...] Here it is important to note that Krassimir Terziev works through the installation in this direction – it leaves the vertical axis characteristic of monumentality, and the letters are scaled so one is able to sit on them. In addition to the possibility of spontaneous use by passers-by, a discussion program is also being prepared, as well as an opportunity for artists to interpret the work in their own way.

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