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Nedko SOLAKOV
Good Talk, Bad Rumour (Villa Manin), 2008
12 spotlights and impure media
Variable dimensions
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Nedko Solakov's art collection
The internationally acclaimed artist Nedko Solakov is also an art collector. He started his collection in 1986, when he and his wife Slava bought a drawing by one of the Bulgarian classic masters from his relatives. Since that time their collection has kept growing. Today it includes many works by international artists, but they are rather small works. On the occasion of his new exhibition at Galleria Continua in San Gimignano, Solakov has asked the artists whose works are included in his collection to lend a large dimension artwork in order to realize his art collector dream.
The core of the show (up until September 6, 2020) is an installation by Solakov himself, entitled "Some Nice Things to Enjoy While You Are Not Making a Living", a project that the artist started conceiving in 2006 and realized in 2008, on the occasion of his travelling exhibition "Emotions" at the Kunstmuseum Bonn, Kunstmuseum St. Gallen and Mathildenhöhe in Darmstadt. The installation was shown for the last time in 2012 at S.M.A.K. in Gent. For this iteration, the artist has added to the large narrative of his installation his passion for colleting art.
Nedko Solakov, The Sofa, 2008, 74 x 210 x 100 cm, Courtesy the artist and GALLERIA CONTINUA, Photo by Ela Bi
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Ikon presents the first major exhibition in the UK of Nedko Solakov (b.1957) in Cherven Briag, Bulgaria. All in Order, with Exceptions is a chronological survey of Solakov’s practice, an amalgamation of four selections, made by three galleries – Ikon (UK), S.M.A.K. (Belgium) and Serralves (Portugal) – comprising one work per year since he emerged as an artist c.1980. There are overlaps, where a work was chosen by two or more curators. The ‘exceptions’ are those works first exhibited in years following their years of production, the latter being ignored for our purposes. In addition, for the Fondazione Galleria Civica, Trento, Solakov has made a further selection from all the works not chosen for the three other galleries: All in (my) Order, with Exceptions is a kind of Salon des Refusés, which articulates an intimate approach to the survey format, fully autonomous from curatorial ‘interference’.
The vast body of work available for consideration is evident in archival folders, painstakingly put together by the artist, which document hundreds of works by him not chosen to show on this occasion as well as pertinent facts relating to each year in question. At once very personal and encyclopaedic, this is the world according to Nedko Solakov, coloured by a characte