video: AVCHD TV (1920X1080pixels) MOV PAL colour screening, aspect ratio: 16:9, sound, / dimensions: variable / duration: 1 minute & 15 seconds LOOP / edition: 5 (edition 1/5 of the video is property of a Bulgarian collector)
This video aims to present Neno's visual interpretation of the world and the social environment, where he lives in, by showing seemingly well-known non polite gestures. Those gestures are matched by contradictory but very strong visual element (the RAINBOW/SPECTER), which if considered at one level, seem to be in conflict with one another both ideologically and visually. In fact, in favor of the dispute, the artist denies them. In other words: by negation, through denial, he affirms a favorable and positive opinion. As a result of it, the artist achieves a message with an irrational impact, which does not have to be considered by using logical thinking. In the video we observe seemingly barbarian or even savage attitude, which puts under question the achievements of the civilization, but the RAINBOW appearance changes the video meaning deep in its roots and makes it multileveled.
In the other hand, during soviet era some of the Bulgarian artists were more or less opposition of the communistic government, but after fell down of the Berlin wall, the situation changed and for most of them it became difficult to find a place in the society – all life time they were opposition, now they didn't know how to be on the other side. It is kind of schizophrenic situation or at least contradictory. This video symbolically express these contradictory feelings very well.
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This video is a part of my series of videos "RAINBOW DOES NOT BELONG TO NOBODY" and here, you can watch short video-documentation about my last solo-exhibition with same title, where "NEGATIVE MESSAGE (MIDDLE FINGER)" took a part!
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June 2013 / in my solo exhibition THE RAINBOW DOESN'T BELONG TO ANYBODY at CONTEMPORARY SPACE gallery / Varna, BULGARIA
The video "NEGATIVE MESSAGE (MIDDLE FINGER)" has been screened at:
November 2014 – GNARL FEST 2014: International Video Art Festival, (catalog), Lincoln Performing Arts Centre, Lincoln, UK
September 2014 – MAKE8ELIEVE & EVERYBODYS PERFECT: international film festival, Genèvе, Switzerland
August 2014 – LOVELY DAYS: video art festival, curator Branko Franceschi, Bol, CROATIA
July 2014 – ZOOart: site-specific art festival, (catalog), curator: Michela Giuggia, Cuneo, ITALY
May 2014 – l'Œil d'OODAAQ 2014: International Video Art Festival, (catalog), Rennes, FRANCE
May 2014 – RESONANCE Exhibition 2014: International Video Art Exhibition, Love Bomb gallery, Richmond, USA
March 2014 – IN-SONORA VIII: Sound and Interactive Art Festival, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte REINA SOFIA, Madrid, SPAIN
December 2013 – FIRST RPIZE at DUPINI LIKE: international video art exhibition (this video together with SICKLE AND HAMMER took the FIRST PLACE inthis competition), the Old Post Office, Veliko Turnovo, BG
October 2013 – 3rd MULTIMEDIA SHOWCASE: International exhibition, AXA, 1a Avenida, Porto, Portugal
July 2013 – PRIZM 14: International exhibition, Millennium Gallery, Sheffield, UK
June 2013 – series of solo exhibitions: THE RAINBOW DOES NOT BELONG TO ANYBODY at CONTEMPORARY SPACE gallery and gallery "8", Varna, BULGARIA
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November 2013 / at the international video art exhibition
DUPINI LIKE / organisers DUPINI art group
OLD POST OFFICE BUILDING / Veliko Turnovo, BULGARIA
