Gabriela
Vanga
Elzbieta
Jablonska
Malgorzata
Markiewicz
Michal
Murin
Kiril
Prashkov
Fabio Andrea Sajiz
Emanuela
Marassi
Lorenzo Missoni
Ebba Matz
Mans Wrange
Katrin Essenson
Gül Ilgaz
Aleksandar
Kujučev
Rudolf Sikora
Balint
Szombathy
Igor Eškinja
Slaven Tolj
Vana Urošević
Alevtina
Kakhidze
Igor Scerbina
Florin Tudor & Mona
Vatamanu
Lela B.Njatin
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Kiril Prashkov
biography


Words of wisdom, installation, 2005
Curator: Iara Bubnova
Institute of Contemporary Art, Sofia, Bulgaria
Words of Wisdom
(...) In fact, Words of Wisdom the somewhat pretentious title of a volume
published by Independent Curators International in 2001 in New York
in order to send an "advice to a new generation of curators from established
curators of contemporary art exhibitions who, over the past twenty
five years, have played a crucial role in shaping what we see today,
and how we see it", as written on its back cover. For his work Kiril
Prashkov uses this title and some of the titles of the answers and
statements from the book. He weaves continuously, word after word,
one punctuation symbol after another, a fairly long 'text' and the
process begins to resemble the reading aloud in the old time. Such
a reading process used to be much more than merely informative, it
had the capacity to create a community of people sharing the same experience,
to bring closer or oppose people at a much greater proximity than in
the case of cinema, for instance. Even today reading aloud is thought
to facilitate and improve the understanding of what is written.
Excerpt from the curator's text
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