video installation: PAL screening (720/576 pixels), colour, no sound / dimensions: variable / duration: continuos LOOP
(Watch videodocumentation: below!)
description: A video image of a naked silent man, lying still under the sea level, is screened right to the floor (3 min loop). The man is shot from above (above the water) so that the refraction of the image, caused by the water motion, could be seen. The image is as large as the projected man in his full size.
conception: An eager fan of the 'Sermon with Flower" delivered by Buddha, i.e. the artist, Neno Belchev, is interested in every form of silence – in terms of a road, or a way how to follow that road, and finally in terms of an artist - he is interested in silence as a form of influence. For this work, he follows partly the Hesychasts (quietists) - followers of the maxim: 'In order that you can hear, you must be silent!' The Hesychasts took a vow to keep silent, which they kept up during all their lifetime, or over a definite period of time. Similarly, Neno takes a vow to keep silent; sinking deeply in an environment, where one cannot but keep silent. Neno Belchev has a profound respect for all mystics dedicated to spiritual self-excellence, and he sincerely wishes to be like them but for unknown reasons he fails to be alike and admits this with a smile on his face. This work is the outcome of that smile
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02.2007 / art-museum HIDAMARI / SAPPORO / JAPAN
This videoinstallation has been exhibited at:
March, 2012 - international exhibition "Le Temps De L'Eau TMTTR", curator Cohn Drennan - USA, (catalog), the Musee de Tapisseries, Aix-en-Provence, FRANCE
June 2009 - international exhibition "TAKE ME TO THE RIVER - ISTANBUL", curator Cohn Drennan - USA, Wichita Falls Museum, Texas, USA;
March 2009 – international exhibition "TAKE ME TO THE RIVER", curator Cohn Drennan - USA, Depo - Tütün Deposu, Istanbul, Turkey;
February 2007 – solo video-art exhibition, art museum HIDAMARI (the Glass Pyramid), (catalog),Sapporo, JAPAN;
August 2006 – International Biennial for Visual Arts "August in Art", curator Rumen Serafimov, (catalog), Varna, BG;
above: 05.2009 international exhibition TMTR at
DEPO
curator Cohn Drennan
DEPO / ISTANBUL, TURKEY
left: 03.2012
international exhibition "Le Temps De L'Eau TMTTR"
curator Cohn Drennan
Musee de Tapisseries
Aix-en-Provence, FRANCE
08.2006 / international biennial AUGUST IN ART /
VARNA, BG
The the pictures above are from the screenings on the floor (as avideoinstallation) and as a print over nilon (200 X 150 cm) in the water pool (200 X 150 X 25 cm), which I did by myself and where it has been exhibited at the yard of the ALADZHA MONASTRY MUSEUM
