LOW QUALITY STREET VIDEO ART in SINGLE FRAME December

LOW QUALITY STREET VIDEO ART IN SINGLE FRAME

December 2019

Installation view of the screening during ARTIFICIAL LIGHT, 7-th annual exhibition of Contemporary Space Gallery, Varna, BG curator Daniella Radeva

The project was developed during July-August 2019 Espai Sant Marc AiR programme, Sineu, Mallorca, Balearic Islands, ESPAÑA (Travel Grant by Creative Development Programme of BULGARIAN NATIONAL FUND “CULTURE”)

The screening is realized by handmade cardboard projector. The dimenssions are variable.

The project ironically combines the creative approaches of video art with street art and actionism in urban environments. Examining their different aspects, the project aims to find new public language. It uses the different opportunities, which are offered by these seemingly different media through its innovative approach to them in a way that aims to maximize the impact.

Technically: The project works with handy and found materials, thereby reducing budget expenses to a minimum. In other words; using hand-made projectors, the project-author attacks the social environment.

Conceptually: Using projection instead of physical material on facades, the project elegantly escapes the hooligan approach of street art. But he keeps the direct contact, through which street art works and adapts it for video art. Thus, video art is freed from allegations of elitism, which makes a significant development of contemporary art. КЛУБ НА ПЕНСИОНЕРА CLUB OF PENSIONERS (RETIREE'S CLUB)

9 September 2019 An art intervention on the doors of Varna City Gallery. Outside installation view of the intervention.

The purpose of this action is to provoke reflection in pedestrians about the politics of the last few directors of the Gallery, who, in addition to being literally retired, are also developing an activity that does not honor the institution called CITY GALLERY!

I'm sick of that the gallery being run by inadequate people (sometimes literally, sometimes figuratively!)

I am tired by the fact that the gallery, which should be the standard of quality, shows the lowest quality exhibitions and frank kitsch;

It is very important to note that the action also criticizes the lack of an adequate policy in Varna Municipality for the detention of young creative people in the city.

ДЪЛБОКО МЪЛЧАНИЕ DEEP SILENCE video installation year of creation: 2006 dimensions variable DVD PAL, colour, no sound, 3 minutes, loop http://www.nenobel.net/neno-video-2006-Deep-Silence.htm https://youtu.be/FebcoPYBu1A

Documentational photos (and the video in Youtube) from “WATER” International Performance Festival, Bourgas, BULGARIA 30-31 August 2019

An eager fan of the ‘Sermon with Flower” delivered by Buddha, i.e. the artist, Neno Belchev, isinterested 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 hesincerely 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. LOW QUALITY STREET VIDEO ART IN SINGLE FRAME

July-August 2019 GRANT at Espai Sant Marc AiR programme, Sineu, Mallorca, Balearic Islands, ESPAÑA (Travel Grant by Creative Development Programme of BULGARIAN NATIONAL FUND “CULTURE”)

Outside screening view on the streets of Sineu, A screening realized by handmade cardboard projector.

10 July 2019

An art action during Espai Sant Marc AiR programme, Sineu, Mallorca, Balearic Islands, ESPAÑA (Travel Grant by Creative Development Programme of BULGARIAN NATIONAL FUND “CULTURE”)

Outside installation view of a statue on the streets of Sineu.

Before leaving for España, I made an art "intervention" in the urban environment of Varna. It's called "Setting the clock." I put a wristwatch, which I found in Los Angeles, on the hand of a statue in Varna, with the intention of the municipal commission to "check" and to "set up" itself to the world situation, but the watch was quickly stolen. :-) In Sineu, I repeated same intervention and no one stole the clock - the clock still stands on the statue's hand, but in Majorca the action didn't make the same sense.

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July-August 2019 GRANT at Espai Sant Marc AiR programme, Sineu, Mallorca, Balearic Islands, ESPAÑA (Travel Grant by Creative Development Programme of BULGARIAN NATIONAL FUND “CULTURE”)

Outside installation view of the Open Studio exhibition at Espai Sant Marc Art Space.

ОБРЪЩЕНИЕ КЪМ ПРЕЗИДЕНТ

(AN ADDRESS TO A PRESIDENT ) 2018 video installation year of creation: 2019 duration: 00:01:20 format : mov (FHD), dcp (2K flat)

Synopsis : It is just my very spontaneous and non-official address to the US president

This video has been shown at: • 12 October 2019 / OGA VideoArt Exhibitions 2019/2020, Roma, Italy; • 5-13 October 2019 – XXIII MoziMotion International Film Festival, Hilversum, North Holland, NETHERLANDS; • 20 June 2019 / Zeitimpuls shortfilm: Nomination for the "time in the puls Award 2019", Vienna, Austria; • 27 June 2019 / 12th Fest Anca Festival, Zilina, Slovakia; • 17 May 2019 / XXIV-th International Biennial of Humour and Satire in Art, Gabrovo, Bulgaria; • May 19, 2019 / Côte d’Azur WebFest, Cannes, France; • February 8, 2019 / MedFF, Siracusa, Italy • January 20, 2019 / Anti-Hero Production Genre Fest Burbank, Los Angeles, CA, United States • December 8, 2018 / Open Studio during 2018 AiR Program at ESMoA (El Segungo Museum of Art) World Premiere, El Segundo, Los Angeles, CA, United States.

Documentational photo from the screening at METRO cinema theatre: June 20, 2019 / Zeitimpuls shortfilm, Vienna, Austria

The video has been created during 2018 AiR Program at ESMoA (El Segungo Museum of Art), El Segundo, Los Angeles, CA, United States. (Travel Grant by Creative Development Programme of BULGARIAN NATIONAL FUND “CULTURE”) MY HEART IS AN OCTOPUS OR MY FATHER ON THE SHORE OF THE BLACK SEA / 2014-17 13 December 2018 / (El Segundo Museum of Art), El Segundo, Los Angeles, CA, USA http://www.nenobel.net/neno-a-heart-octopus.htm video art film 93 min. / year of creation: 2014 - 2017 video: screening format: DCP, aspect ratio: flat 1.85:1 (inside 16:9), Colour, Stereo or 5+1 sound, original language: Bulgarian, available are English, Russian and French subtitles

The try of a man, who feels immigrant to his own homeland to make a documentary about his father. As a story structure, it reminds a postmodern novel: fragmented, plotless and on first view: chaotic. Individual pieces can be rearranged and each one has its own life. In terms of genre, the film stands on the border between pseudo-documentary, dark comedy and video-art.

Sellected screenings and awards: 13 XII 2018 – the El Segundo Museum of Art ESMoA, El Segundo, Los Angeles, CA, USA; 25 XI 2018 – Istanbul International Experimental Film Fest, (nomination in EXPERIMENT) Istanbul, Turkey; 22 IX 2018 – IV-th Film Festival Bremen, (nomination in category INNOVATION), Bremen, GERMANY; VII 2018 – Freedom Film Festival; the PRIZE for BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM, Kuala Lumpur, MALAYSIA; VII 2018 – Madhouse Movies Film Festival, USA; 17 I 2018 – gallery STRUCTURA, Sofia, BULGARIA; 23 XI 2017 – VII CINERAMABC - International Film Festival, Balneário Camboriú, BRAZIL; 28 X 2017 – VIII Sofia Independent FIlm Festival (So Independent), Sofia, BULGARIA; 16 X 2017 – 1st Russian (Russky) Film Festival, FIRST PRIZE in category BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM, Moscow, RUSSIA; 24 IX 2017 – IV Lisbon International Film Festival, Lisbon, PORTUGAL; 4 IX 2017 – 12 Months Film Festival, SECOND PRIZE in category BEST FILM, Cluj, ROMANIA; 17 VII 2017 – XXXVIII (38-th) Durban International Film Festival, Durban, SOUTH AFRICA; 2 V 2017 – IV-th Derby International Film Festival, Derby, UNITED KINGDOM; 11 III 2017 – XXI (21-st) Sofia International Film Festival 2017, Sofia, Bulgaria; 16 I 2017 – XV (15-th) Pune International Film Festival 2017, Pune, INDIA; 24 IX 2016 – XXXIV (34-th) National Festival for Bulgarian Feature Films “Zlatna roza”, Varna, BG October 2018 – January 2019 GRANT at ESMoA 2018 А-i-R program, ESMoA (El Segundo Museum of Art), El Segundo, Los Angeles, CA, USA (Travel Grant by Creative Development Programme of BULGARIAN NATIONAL FUND “CULTURE”)

The exhibition view of the Open Studio in ESMoA (El Segundo Museum of Art), El Segundo, Los Angeles, CA, USA

AMERICAN DREAM, MADE IN CHINA

Series of paintings / year: 2018 / medium: oil colours over digital print on canvas / dimensions: 12 / 12 in. The paintings were done over cheap Chinese digital prints, bought in Los Angeles from '99 Cents Shop' for 2 $ the piece and I paint on top of them, preserving to a large extent what is on the print, which presents the non-Americans idea about the so called “American Dream”. In this case the Chinese “designer” mixed New York skyscrapers and the Liberty Statue with London bus, but also on the background a map of Eastern Europe!!! :-) Then I sell them for 2000 $ because obviously the mass production, 'touched' by the painter's brush magically turns into a high valuable work of art! The project was developed during ESMoA 2018 А-i-R program, ESMoA (El Segundo Museum of Art), El Segundo, Los Angeles, CA, USA (Travel Grant by Creative Development Programme of BULGARIAN NATIONAL FUND “CULTURE”) October 2018 – January 2019 GRANT at ESMoA 2018 А-i-R program, ESMoA (El Segundo Museum of Art), El Segundo, Los Angeles, CA, USA (Travel Grant by Creative Development Programme of BULGARIAN NATIONAL FUND “CULTURE”) the video AN ADDRESS TO A PRESIDENT at the Open Studio exhibition in ESMoA (El Segundo Museum of Art), El Segundo, Los Angeles, CA, USA

October 2018 – January 2019 GRANT at ESMoA 2018 А-i-R program, ESMoA (El Segundo Museum of Art), El Segundo, Los Angeles, CA, USA

the video TREAT ME AS A COYOTE! at the Open Studio exhibition in ESMoA (El Segundo Museum of Art), El Segundo, Los Angeles, CA, USA

TREAT ME AS A COYOTE! Duration: 02:20 loop Production Year: 2018 Format: MOV FHD (1920 X 1080 pixels) Aspect ratio: 16:9 screenings: Colour and sound • November 20-24, 2019 / ULTRAcinema, Mexico City, Mexico; Edition: 5 + 1 • June 6, 2019 / "One Shot" Film Festival, National Center for Contemporary Arts of Armenia, Yerevan, Armenia; Description of the work: • March 30, 2019 / Sylhet Film Festival, Asian Premiere, Being video-documentation of a pseudo-hooligan's Sylhet, Bangladesh; act, the video reflects the nowadays world migrant • December 21, 2018 / Go - Went - Gone / 6-th Annual crisis. Moreover, the footage was filmed in front of Exhibition of Contemporary Space Gallery, the fence of LAX (Los Angeles International Airport), European Premiere, VARNA, Bulgaria; which is considered as very important border-crossing • December 8, 2018 / Open Studio during AiR program point in USA. I did it with water-based markers and at ESMoA (El Segungo Museum of Art) World Premiere, later cleaned it, because I thought I have to be El Segundo, Los Angeles, CA, United States. antagonist in this fake video-documentation, but (Travel Grant by Creative Development Programme I didn't want to leave it, as it is bad sense of humour, of BULGARIAN NATIONAL FUND “CULTURE”) if I leave it. It is difficult to explain, but I think: it is good as an art-work, but not to leave it in real life, because if I leave it - it will be real hooligan act and it might be misunderstood.

MIRRORING TABLES December 2018

Installation view during GO_WENT_GONE, 6-th annual exhibition of Contemporary Space Gallery, Varna, Bulgaria curator Daniella Radeva

The project was developed during ESMoA 2018 А-i-R program, ESMoA (El Segundo Museum of Art), El Segundo, Los Angeles, CA, USA (Travel Grant by Creative Development Programme of BULGARIAN NATIONAL FUND “CULTURE”)

The project ironically presents an idea, which I really like: the idea that there is an object here that is represented by another object elsewhere on another place in the universe. It is small table in ESMoA (on the small photo below), on which lower surface I wrote: "Hey, here I am, in California and again I do not know what to do!?" And later especially for the exhibition "Go-Went-Gone" it was repeated over another small table in Varna by other Varna artist Vladimir Ivanov (on the bigger photo) November 2018 – an art-action on the window of Iconoclash Art Spase, in the frames of 400 years of Synod of Dordt 1618 - 2018 / IDENTITY 2018, Dordrecht, The NETHERLANDS June 2018 – participation with two murals and the performance "IMMIGRATION IN SUITCASE" in the International Street-art festival, SPHINX 2018 OEDIPUS TYRANNUS, Thiba, GREECE MY HEART IS AN OCTOPUS OR MY FATHER ON THE SHORE OF THE BLACK SEA / 2014-17 17 January 2018 / Gallery Structura, Sofia, BG http://www.nenobel.net/neno-a-heart-octopus.htm video art film 93 minutes / year of creation: 2014 - 2017 video: screening format: DCP, aspect ratio: flat 1.85:1 (inside 16:9), Colour, Stereo or 5+1 sound, original language: Bulgarian, available are English, Russian and French subtitles

Sellected screenings and awards: 13 XII 2018 – the El Segundo Museum of Art ESMoA, El Segundo, Los Angeles, CA, USA; 25 XI 2018 – Istanbul International Experimental Film Festival, (nominationin category EXPERIMENTAL) TURKEY; 22 IX 2018 – IV-th Film Festival Bremen, (nomination in category INNOVATION), Bremen, GERMANY; VII 2018 – Freedom Film Festival; the PRIZE for BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM, Kuala Lumpur, MALAYSIA; VII 2018 – Madhouse Movies Film Festival, USA; 17 I 2018 – gallery STRUCTURA, Sofia, BULGARIA; 23 XI 2017 – VII CINERAMABC - International Film Festival, Balneário Camboriú, BRAZIL; 28 X 2017 – VIII Sofia Independent FIlm Festival (So Independent), Sofia, BULGARIA; 16 X 2017 – 1st Russian (Russky) Film Festival, FIRST PRIZE in category BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM, Moscow, RUSSIA; 24 IX 2017 – IV Lisbon International Film Festival, Lisbon, PORTUGAL; 4 IX 2017 – 12 Months Film Festival, SECOND PRIZE in category BEST FILM, Cluj, ROMANIA; 17 VII 2017 – XXXVIII (38-th) Durban International Film Festival, Durban, SOUTH AFRICA; 2 V 2017 – IV-th Derby International Film Festival, Derby, UNITED KINGDOM; 11 III 2017 – XXI (21-st) Sofia International Film Festival 2017, Sofia, Bulgaria; 16 I 2017 – XV (15-th) Pune International Film Festival 2017, Pune, INDIA; 24 IX 2016 – XXXIV (34-th) National Festival for Bulgarian Feature Films “Zlatna roza”, Varna, BG ИМИГРАЦИЯ В КУФАР

(IMMIGRATION IN SUITCASE) 2007/2017 video installation and performance year of creation: 2007 event: XXX video art festival INSTANTS VIDÉO 10 November 2017 Marseille, FRANCE duration: approximately 34 minutes dimensions: variable

In the storage box there is an alive man in embryonic position, who is the author of the project – Neno. Inside the box he is filming with video camera, which broadcasts TV signal to a beamer. The image of the sweating and suffering man in very uncomfortable position of the body in this very tight space is projected on the wall of the gallery. https://youtu.be/v65HMdTH2CI

This preformance has been shown at:

10 November 2017 – XXX (30th) INSTANTS VIDÉO CINÉMA LES VARIÉTÉS curator: Marc Mercier Marseille, FRANCE

4 May 2015 – MONTAG MODUS CHB, Berlin, GERMANY curators: Lena Szirmay-Kalos and Kata Krasznahorkai

14 June 2013 – TPA: Torino Performance Festival gallery Green Box, Turin, ITALY curators: Manuela Maco and Guido Salvini http://vimeo.com/69224004

23 October 2009 – The Invisible Generation project OCAT - Contemporary ArtTerminal of He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen, CHINA http://www.vimeo.com/17814039

11 December 2008 – KAUNAS IN ART: “CONTEXTS” festival for contemporary art (catalog) Kaunas, LITHUANIA (catalog)

4 October 2008 – REDline’08_Bordering on Us International Meeting of Contemporary Art Community IDEIAS EMERGENTES, Rua Santa Catarina, 777 Porto, PORTUGAL (catalog) ВЕЛО-РОДЕО / 2017

година на създаване: 2017 материали: 2 колелета, сателитна чиния, 3 тухли и дървени летви размери: 200 / 200 / 118 см,

2 велосипеда с елипсовидни капли обикалят в кръг, посредством подвижна конструкция. Фактът, че гумите са елипловидни придава на движението на колелото характерно подскачане (подрусване).

„Ездачите“ трябва да бъдат обезопасени с велосипедна каска.

Творбата е създадена по време на 26-тия международен фестивал за съвременно изкуство "ПРОЦЕС-ПРОСТРАНСТВО" 2017 2-16 Юни 2017 / гр. Русе, България

VELO-RODEO / 2017 ready made object year of creation: 2017 meterials: 2 bicycles, Satelite dish, 3 bricks and wood dimensions: 200 / 200 / 118 cm

The two bicycles with rims with elliptical orbits are looping in a circle through mobile construction. The fact, that the tires have ellipse shape, gives the movement of the bicycle characteristic bounce.

"Riders" must be secured with a bicycle helmet.

This work has been created at the 26-th International Festival for Contemporary Art "PROCESS-SPACE" 2017 2-16 June 2017, Russe BULGARIA

COLLECTION OF PREUDO-TRACIAN ARTEFACTS (THE FUNERAL OF MUMMYFIED BODY OF TZAR RABBIT) mummyfied object year of creation: 2017 meterials: hunny-bunny toy, covered with textile patches, coloured with acrylic colours + other small objects, coloured with colden paint dimensions: variable

The idea of this series of objects is to create a kind of strange and bizarre parallel between the Ancient Egyptian art and some „contemporary“ icons. Born by the will of somebody to replace the real values of the ideas, which makes the world goes around, the commercial reality usually presents life much more luxurious and wasteful than as it is. Dealing with it and the religious and sacred function of mummies, this series of works is a part of my quest of finding the meaning and function of art in nowadays society.

This work has been created at the 26-th International Festival for Contemporary Art "PROCESS-SPACE" 2017 2-16 June 2017, Russe BULGARIA

MY HEART IS AN OCTOPUS OR MY FATHER ON THE SHORE OF THE BLACK SEA / 2014-16 24 September 2016 / at ФКЦ, Varna, BULGARIA http://www.nenobel.net/neno-a-heart-octopus.htm video art film 93 min. / year of creation: 2014 - 2017 video: screening format: DCP, aspect ratio: flat 1.85:1 (inside 16:9), Colour, Stereo or 5+1 sound, original language: Bulgarian, available are English, Russian and French subtitles

The try of a man, who feels immigrant to his own homeland to make a documentary about his father.

As a story structure, it reminds a postmodern novel: fragmented, plotless and on first view: chaotic. Individual pieces can be rearranged and each one has its own life. In terms of genre, the film stands on the border between pseudo-documentary, dark comedy and video-art. The movie uses the expressive means of a documentary film, however, it is not a documentary, and it even contains some phantasmagorical and sci-fi elements and criminal moments, which it skillfully combines with grotesque animation and poetic visual language. It aims to bring to life author's understanding regarding art and his innovative position of a man, who works with the moving image.

The story runs mainly in a hypothetical Balkan country where the communistic regime collapsed at the end of the 80-ties, but after few decades it “reincarnated” itself making a contra-revolution. The main character (middle-aged man) is an immigrant, who comes from a hypothetical Balkan country, where he has returned illegally to make a documentary about his father (known but forgotten artist from the recent past), and he returned illegally because in his youth he was involved in a bank robbery. All his life, the son has passionately defended his own artistic and creative position, but he has not reached the popularity and success of his parent, and, at the same time, he failed to find his place in society and to cope with the chaos in his personal life. His voice (behind the characters, voiceover) leads the narrative as a series of comments over the memories for his father by means of which he unobtrusively sets out his understanding of life, art and death.

ЛУНЕН СЪРП И ЗВЕЗДА

/MOON SICKLE AND A STAR/ 2015 video installation year of creation: 2015 event: "ERROR 03", December 2015 CONTEMPORARY SPACE, Varna, BULGARIA LOOP, duration: 46 seconds dimensions: variable

The action in the video is a visualization of Bulgarian expression saying: TO BEAT SOMETHING IN YOUR HEAD!!, Which means: somebody made enormous efforts to have or to achieve something that he/she don't need after that. Especially, in this video the problem with the rights of the women in ultra-fanatic religious societies is observed.

Actually, this video is a part of Neno’s series of videos "POST-СОЦ-GODS", where he deals with the religious and sacred function of gods and replaces them with icons of the post-socialistic time as Lenin, Stalin, Mao and so on.

Previous participations:

Dec 2015 – ennual exhibition "ERROR 03", gallery CONTEMPORARY SPACE, Varna, Bulgaria

Sept 2015 – DA fest, Gallery “Academica”, Sofia, Bulgaria www.nenobel.net/neno-video-2015-moon-sickle.htm

SICKLE AND HAMMER (dark version) / 2014 October 2015 / at 74 Gallery, Ljubljana, SLOVENIA www.nenobel.net/neno-video-2014-dark-hammer.htm video installation / year of creation: 2014 video: AVCHD TV (1920X1080pixels) MOV PAL colour, sound, duration: 39 seconds LOOP screening dimensions: variable, aspect ratio: 16:9

The main characters in this video are the famous icons of communism: SICKLE AND HAMMER. The action in my video is a visualization of Bulgarian sentence: TO BEAT SOMETHING IN YOUR HEAD!! – Which means somebody made enormous efforts to have or to achieve something that he/she don't need after all.

This video is a part of my last series of videos "POST-СОЦ-GODS", where I deal with the religious and sacred function of gods and replace them with icons of the post-socialistic time as Lenin, Stalin, Mao and so on, by putting myself on the place of them. For me making such a parallel is important for the understanding what drive made so many people follow them in the failure implementation of this utopia... Because, 23 years after fall down of the Berlin wall, I still have a lot of "communism" in my head, that's why, the video also can be considered as my private quest to knock the stupid „communism" out of my head.

"Dark"version participations (after 2014): October 2015 – INSOMNIA DYSLEXIA: 5th International Short Video Biennial, curator: Ece Pazarbaşı, Ljubljana, SLOVENIA September 2015 – EESA -Exhibition: Between democracies 1989- 2014, Curator: Judy Peter, Johannesburg, SOUTH AFRICA January 2015 – ART FOR CHANGE curator Maria Vassileva, СГХГ, Sofia, BULGARIA September 2014 – as a site-specific installation in the abandon museum of Bulgaro-Soviet Friendship The Hill of Cranes, Varna, BULGARIA

"Home"version participations (2012): July 2014 - ZooArt2014: site-specific exhibition curator: Michela Giuggia, (catalog), Cuneo, ITALY October - November 2013 – EAST+EUROPE: Eastern European Contemporary Art Exhibition, curator: Mee Ping Leung, (catalog), Hong Kong City Art Hall / HONG KONG, CHINA БЕЗ ЗАГЛАВИЕ / 2015 /

редимейд обект материали: мобилен телефон "НОКИЯ" дървена дръжка, тел и оранжева връв размери: 33 / 10,5 / 4 см 20 септември 2015

UNTITLED / 2015 / readymade object materials: mobile phone "NOKIA" wooden handle, metal wire and orange corde dimensions: 33 / 10,5 / 4 cm 20 September 2015

БЕЗ ЗАГЛАВИЕ / 2014-2015 /

редимейд обект материали: компютър "ЛЕНОВО" и кирка размери: 106 / 50 / 30 см изложба "ПРЕДИЗБОРНА ИЗЛОЖБА" 9 септември 2015 галерия "8", Варна, БЪЛГАРИЯ

UNTITLED / 2014-2015 / readymade object materials: LENOVO computer and pickaxe dimensions: 106 / 50 / 30 cm exhibition "PRE-ELECTION EXHIBITION" 9 September 2015 Gallery "8", Varna, BULGARIA

A MUMMY OF CROCODILE GENA / 2015 year of creation: 2015 meterials: wood (oak) and textile patches, coloured with acrylic colours dimensions: 172 / 76 / 58 cm

This work has been created at the International sculpture symposium in the Art School of Tryavna, Tryavna, BULGARIA

ИМИГРАЦИЯ В КУФАР

/IMMIGRATION IN SUITCASE/ 2007/2013 video installation and performance year of creation: 2007 event: MONTAG MODUS, May 2015 CHB, Berlin, GERMANY duration: approximately 26 minutes dimensions: variable

This preformance has been shown at:

4 May 2015 – MONTAG MODUS CHB, Berlin, GERMANY curators: Lena Szirmay-Kalos and Kata Krasznahorkai

14 June 2013 – TPA: Torino Performance Festival gallery Green Box, Turin, ITALY curators: Manuela Maco and Guido Salvini http://vimeo.com/69224004

8 June 2013 – OTETZ PAISIY: the street festival, curator: Stefka Tzaneva Plovdiv, BULGARIA, http://opsfestival.com/

23 October 2009 – The Invisible Generation project OCAT - Contemporary ArtTerminal of He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen, CHINA http://www.vimeo.com/17814039

11 December 2008 – KAUNAS IN ART: “CONTEXTS” festival for contemporary art (catalog) Kaunas, LITHUANIA (catalog)

4 October 2008 – REDline’08_Bordering on Us International Meeting of Contemporary Art Community IDEIAS EMERGENTES, Rua Santa Catarina, 777 Porto, PORTUGAL (catalog) SICKLE AND HAMMER (dark version) / 2014 video installation / year of creation: 2014 video: AVCHD TV (1920X1080pixels) MOV PAL colour, sound, duration: 39 seconds LOOP screening dimensions: variable, aspect ratio: 16:9

"Dark"version participations (after 2014): September 2015 – EESA -Exhibition: Between democracies 1989- 2014: Memory and Commemoration, Curator: Judy Peter, Johannesburg, SOUTH AFRICA January 2015 – ART FOR CHANGE: national exhibition, curator Maria Vassileva, СГХГ (Sofia City Art Gallery), Sofia, BULGARIA September 2014 – as a site-specific installation in the abandon museum of Bulgaro-Soviet Friendship The Hill of Cranes, Varna, BULGARIA

"Home"version participations (2012): July 2014 - ZooArt2014: site-specific exhibition in former zoo gardens, curator: Michela Giuggia (catalog), Cuneo, ITALY October - November 2013 – EAST+EUROPE: Eastern European Contemporary Art Exhibition, curator: Mee Ping Leung, (catalog), Hong Kong City Art Hall / HONG KONG, CHINA www.nenobel.net/neno-video-2014-dark-hammer.htm SICKLE AND HAMMER (dark version) / 2014 video installation year of creation: 2014 video: AVCHD TV (1920X1080pixels) MOV PAL colour, aspect ratio: 16:9, sound duration: 39 seconds LOOP screening dimensions: variable

About "dark"version (after 2014): September 2014 – as a site-specific installation in the abandon museum of Bulgaro-Soviet Friendship The Hill of Cranes, Varna, BULGARIA

About "home"version (2012): July 2014 - ZooArt2014: site-specific exhibition in former zoo gardens, curator: Michela Giuggia (catalog), Cuneo, ITALY October - November 2013 – EAST+EUROPE: Eastern European Contemporary Art Exhibition, curator: Mee Ping Leung, (catalog), Hong Kong City Art Hall / HONG KONG, CHINA April 2013 – This video loop has been shown at KoshmART: contemporary art exhibition (catalog), GRAFIT gallery, Varna, BULGARIA www.nenobel.net/neno-video-2014-dark-hammer.htm POSITIVE MESSAGE (LORD OF THE RAINBOW) video installation (exhibition view in KALA) year of creation: 2012 video: AVCHD TV (1920X1080pixels) MOV PAL colour, aspect ratio: 16:9, sound duration: 57 seconds LOOP dimensions: variablem

CAUTION!!! Caution! Please, do not do this at your home! Even do not try!! All the footage in thеsе videos is shot as a result of long years of practicing Kung Fu, transcendental meditation and happy coincidence.

In the middle of the 17th Century, the RAINBOW was scientifically explained by Sir Isaac Newton. Nowadays, we all know how a sunbeam driven through a prism breaks up into spectral colors. In fact, white light (rather conditionally because the sunlight is more or less yellow light) breaks down into its constituent beams. And since yet again, (almost) all of us know that man breaks (interprets) the world via his own views as if through a prism, so, this exhibition attempts to see the world “passed through” а man (an artist) how it breaks into its "basic core components" and after that again collect itself. (if I explain it correctly).

It is an exhibition, which has to be regarded as a research on the RAINBOW as a phenomenon – physical (optical), but also political, social, financial, psychological, mystical and last but not least a phenomenon visual – the RAINBOW as natural manifestation of spectral colors.

September 2014 – MAKE8ELIEVE & EVERY BODYS PERFECT international film festival, ' Genèvе, Switzerland June 2014 – WAYFINDING FILM FESTIVAL, (curators: Emily Puthoff &Elena Sniezek), Force Field Project; Philadelphia, USA May 2014 – RESONANCE Exhibition 2014: International Video Art Exhibition, Love Bomb gallery, Richmond, USA September 2013 – CHANNELS: The Australian Video Art Biennial, Melbourne, Australia July 2013 – Winner of the Acid Rain July 2013 Episode #59; Acid Rain: an online video art platform; NY, USA http://www.nenobel.net/neno-video-2012-positive.htm NEGATIVE MESSAGE (MIDDLE FINGER) video installation (exhibition view аt ZOOart 2014) year of creation: 2012 video: AVCHD TV (1920X1080pixels) MOV PAL colour, aspect ratio: 16:9, sound duration: 1 minute & 15 seconds LOOP dimensions: variable

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.

This video loop has been shown 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, Bol, CROATIA July 2014 – ZOOart: site-specific art festival, (catalog), 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 April 2014 – IN-SONORA VIII: Sound and Interactive Art Festival, Madrid, Spain Nov 2013 - DUPINI LIKE: international video art exhibition, the Old Post Office, Veliko Turnovo, BG October 2013 – 3rd MULTIMEDIA SHOWCASE: International exhibition, AXA, Porto, Portugal July 2013 – PRIZM 14: International exhibition, Millennium Gallery, Sheffield, UK June 2013 – THE RAINBOW DOESN'T BELONG TO ANYBODY: solo video art exhibition, CONTEMPORARY SPACE gallery, Varna, BG

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SICKLE AND HAMMER / 2012 video installation year of creation: 2012 meterials: textile tent, flat TV screen video: AVCHD TV (1920X1080pixels) MOV PAL colour, aspect ratio: 16:9, sound duration: 41 seconds LOOP dimensions: 200 / 155 / 260 cm

October - November 2013 – EAST+EUROPE: Eastern European Contemporary Art Exhibition, curator: Mee Ping Leung, (catalog), Hong Kong City Art Hall / HONG KONG, CHINA April 2013 – This video loop has been shown at KoshmART: contemporary art exhibition (catalog), GRAFIT gallery, Varna, BULGARIA

http://vimeo.com/77492650 http://www.nenobel.net/neno-video-2012-hammer.htm NEGATIVE MESSAGE (MIDDLE FINGER) video installation (exhibition view) year of creation: 2012 video: AVCHD TV (1920X1080pixels) MOV PAL colour, aspect ratio: 16:9, sound duration: 1 minute & 15 seconds LOOP dimensions: variable

This video loop has been shown at: April 2014 – IN-SONORA VIII: Sound and Interactive Art Festival, Madrid, Spain Nov 2013 - DUPINI LIKE: international video art exhibition, the Old Post Office, Veliko Turnovo, BG October 2013 – 3rd MULTIMEDIA SHOWCASE: International exhibition, AXA, Porto, Portugal July 2013 – PRIZM 14: International exhibition, Millennium Gallery, Sheffield, UK June 2013 – THE RAINBOW DOESN'T BELONG TO ANYBODY: solo video art exhibition, CONTEMPORARY SPACE gallery, Varna, BG

http://www.nenobel.net/neno-video-2012-midle.htm POSITIVE MESSAGE (LORD OF THE RAINBOW) video installation (exhibition view) year of creation: 2012 video: AVCHD TV (1920X1080pixels) MOV PAL colour, aspect ratio: 16:9, sound duration: 57 seconds LOOP dimensions: variable

September 2013 – CHANNELS: The Australian Video Art Biennial, Melbourne, Australia

July 2013 – Winner of the Acid Rain July 2013 Episode #59; Acid Rain: an online video art platform; NY, USA

June 2013 – This video loop has been shown at THE RAINBOW DOESN'T BELONG TO ANYBODY: solo video art exhibition, CONTEMPORARY SPACE gallery, Varna, BG

http://www.nenobel.net/neno-video-2012-positive.htm ИМИГРАЦИЯ В КУФАР

/IMMIGRATION IN SUITCASE/ 2007/2013 video installation and performance year of creation: 2007 tpa: Torino Performance Festival, 2013 gallery Green Box,Turin, ITALY duration: approximately 36 minutes dimensions: variable

This preformance has been shown at:

14 June 2013 – TPA: Torino Performance Festival gallery Green Box, Turin, ITALY curators: Manuela Maco and Guido Salvini http://vimeo.com/69224004

8 June 2013 – OTETZ PAISIY: the street festival, curator: Stefka Tzaneva Plovdiv, BULGARIA, http://opsfestival.com/

23 October 2009 – The Invisible Generation project OCAT - Contemporary ArtTerminal of He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen, CHINA http://www.vimeo.com/17814039

11 December 2008 – KAUNAS IN ART: “CONTEXTS” festival for contemporary art (catalog) Kaunas, LITHUANIA (catalog)

4 October 2008 – REDline’08_Bordering on Us International Meeting of Contemporary Art Community IDEIAS EMERGENTES, Rua Santa Catarina, 777 Porto, PORTUGAL (catalog) SPECTRAL PROMENADE / 2012-2013 video installation year of creation: 2012 video: AVCHD TV (1920X1080pixels) MOV PAL colour, aspect ratio: 16:9, sound duration: 3 minutes and 54 seconds LOOP

Besides that, from the very beginning of the video, we are thrown into post-socialistic reality of nowadays Bulgaria; actually it starts optimistically, showing us group of happily playing children. Later, it gets darker, but only to help the author to make a contrast even contradictory parallel between the art and real life, transforming the social message of the video in to a multi meaning metaphor of crossing the bridge between the imagination and reality. This video discusses the role of the artist in the contemporary society. It does not present the artist as somebody, who walks together, or against the mainstream, but rather as somebody, who walks on his own path. On the other hand, the video aims to remind us, that very often we are observers of unexpected, unforeseen and extraordinary phenomenon, but we are so deep in our thoughts about everyday life, that we miss them. We need to develop specific eyes about extraordinariness. The video also can be regarded as a metaphor, presented the "walk through life" as a walk through seven different colours, which symbolical meanings refer to seven stages of the spiritual development. Just in confirmation of the thesis, that the passage of specific substances from one to another level of expression builds the next layer of cultural accumulation.

This video even has a light in the end of the tunnel!

http://www.nenobel.net/neno-video-2013-P0dle3.htm SICKLE AND HAMMER / 2012 video installation year of creation: 2012 meterials: textile tent, flat TV screen video: AVCHD TV (1920X1080pixels) MOV PAL colour, aspect ratio: 16:9, sound duration: 41 seconds LOOP dimensions: 200 / 155 / 260 cm

The main characters in this video are the famous icons of communism: SICKLE AND HAMMER. The action in my video is a visualization of Bulgarian sentence: TO HIT / TO BEAT / TO KNOCK SOMETHING IN YOUR HEAD!! TO BEFFET IT IN YOUR HEAD!! – Which means somebody made enormous efforts to have or to achieve somethingthat he/she don't need after that (if I explain it correctly).

April 2013 – This video loop has been shown at KoshmART: contemporary art exhibition (catalog), GRAFIT gallery, Varna, BULGARIA

http://vimeo.com/63452458 http://www.nenobel.net/neno-video-2012-hammer.htm A MUMMY OF MICKEY MOUSE / 2012 cursed object year of creation: 2012 meterials: textile patches over silicate base, coloured with acrylic colours and covered with golden folio. dimensions: 100 / 55 / 26 cm

Under the mummy, in the pedestal on which it is placed, there is a hidden mobile phone jamming device. It acts as a "curse" of the mummy.

This work has been shown at CONTEXTILE: Contemporary Textile Art Triennial, (in conjunction with the European Cultural Capitol Guimarães‘2012) Guimarães, PORTUGAL http://www.vimeo.com/49600116 http://www.nenobel.net/neno-sculpture-2012- mummy-10.htm AN OLD RED COMPUTER, WHO TALKS TO HIMSELF 2010 / 2011 speaking object year of creation: 2011-2012 dimensions: 129 / 125 / 131cm

An old red computer repeats in several different languages this sentence: I AM AN OLD RED COMPUTER, WHO TALKS TO HIMSELF. The sound has been created by using online Google Translate. The entire sound is 6 minutes and 40 seconds long in its duration.

This work deals with the restoration of the Communistic system in Bulgaria and all post-socialistic countries, made by Old Red Commies and also with the economical rise of China, which produces the biggest part of all computers all around the world, having economical system, which is neither capitalistic, nor socialistic, but in the same time China pretends that it is still communistic country.

This replica of the work has been shown at FAR: Festival for Art as a Research, Ottersberg, Germany http://vimeo.com/43888554 http://www.nenobel.net/neno-installation-2012-red.htm ДЪГА ПРЕЗ УХОТО / A RAINBOW OUT OF THE EAR / 2011 video installation year of creation: 2011 dimensions: variable

We all know how a sunbeam spent through a prism breaks up into spectral colors, in fact white light (conditional, because the sun light is more or less yellow light) breaks down into its constituent beams. And since then, pretty much all of us know that men break (interpret) the world in their own views as well through a prism, it would be interesting to see the world spent over a man how it breaks the "basic core components." In this video, I do not spend the world through my perceiving model, but a beam of a flashlight in the "emptiness" of my mind. http://vimeo.com/33217628 http://www.nenobel.net/neno-video- 2011-rainbow.htm PENDULUM video-installation year of creation: 2008 dimensions: variable documentation about video-installation from solo-exhibition in NCCA (Saint-Petersburg branch), Saint-Petersburg, Russia September 2011

This work deals with the those motions like pendulum, which in their own nature are deep into the nature of the author. He feels pain in his backbone since his childhood and this is one of the ways to make this pain decrease.

In other hand he often throws by one extreme to other extreme same like a pendulum. http://www.vimeo.com/29514697 http://www.nenobel.net/neno-video- 2008-mahalo.htm AN OLD RED COMPUTER, WHO TALKS TO HIMSELF 2010 / 2011 sound installation year of creation: 2011 dimensions: 29 / 25 / 31cm

The work has been shown at Pixxelpoint 2011 - New Media Art Festival, Nova Gorica, Slovenia http://www.vimeo.com/24308899 http://www.nenobel.net/neno-installation- 2011-red.htm UNTITLED / 2011 audio-visual performance (VJ-ing) 2011, Varna City Radio Hall, Varna, Bulgaria dimension variable 4 channels screening

This audio-visual performance (VJ-ing) is based on the radio-play FACEBOOK by Elitza Mateeva. This is new adaptation for VJ-ing and for Skype. The actors played through Skype. http://www.vimeo.com/22555102 HITCH - HIKING EUROPE / 2008-2009 video installation 2010, OSTRALE'10, Dresden, Germany dimension variable 3 TV screen, 3 channel DVD PAL screening

Different documentary video interviews are broadcast simultaneously on the TV screens, ones that were filmed during a hitchhike trip though the countries from South-eastern to Central Europe and in which the drivers share their opinion of the European Union and Bulgaria’s membership in it. http://www.vimeo.com/14775839

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The people interviewed are drivers of cars who pick up hitchhik- ers. This is a very specific group of people and it cannot be an official statement about the thinking of the European population, but it is interesting to know what precisely this subculture milieu thinks about Bulgaria’s relations with the European Union. In fact, these drivers choose to be interviewed themselves, allowing the author to hitch a ride in their cars by their own choice. Of course, some of the drivers (mainly Bulgarians) refused to be interviewed. ТИ, КАКВО ИСКАШ ОТ СВОЕТО ТЯЛО? / WHAT DO YOU WANT FROM YOUR BODY? installation 2009, Shenzhen, China technique / medium: bamboo, metal net, alive bird, coloured glasses, cartoon and green tape. dimensions: the body: 430 / 150 / 70 cm the slogan: 120 / 200 cm

The installation “What Do You Want For Your Body?” has been exhibited at the outside wall of OCAT - Contemporary Art Terminal of He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen, China during the time of the open studio, 13-18 November 2009. The meaning of Chinese text is: “What Do You Want For Your Body – To Be A Birdcage Or To Be A Nest For Your Soul?” The work is possession of He Xiangning Art Museum. http://www.nenobel.net/neno-sculpture- 2009-tvoeto-tyalo.htm ИМИГРАЦИЯ В КУФАР / IMMIGRATION IN SUITCASE Chinese version in rickshaw

video installation and performance 2009, Shenzhen, China dimension variable

In the box at rickshaw there is an alive man in embryonic position, who is the author of the project – Neno. Inside the box is based video- camera, which broadcasts TV signal with the support of a transmitter. The image of the sweating and suffering man in very uncomfortable position of the body in very tight space is received by the TV screen. The performance “Immigration In Rickshaw” has been presented at the loft of OCAT -Contemporary Art Terminal of He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen, China during the time of the The Invisible Generation project, 23 October 2009.

http://www.vimeo.com/17814039 http://www.nenobel.net/neno-perf-2009 -IMMIGRACIA.htm КАК ДА ПРЕСЕЧЕМ УЛИЦА В БГ (КИТАЙ) / HOW TO CROSS A STREET IN BG (CHINA) performance 2009, Shenzhen, China

Other performance, which I’ve made as a part of the The Invisible Generation project, is about crossing a street in a Bulgarian’s way. This performance is based on the video, which we made together with my friends in the beginning of 2006 and we won prize of jury for best video at “ON DIFFERENCE #2” competition in Sofia, Bulgaria. There in Shenzhen I have adapted for Chinese situation, in order to be more understandable for local people. These few photos are from the performance at Shenzhen, 24 October 2009 and they explain the idea pretty clear. http://www.vimeo.com/17813866 http://www.nenobel.net/neno-perf-2009-how-to.htm РАПСОДИЯ БЪЛГАРИЯ RHAPSODY BULGARIA video installation and performance 2009, storage No. 7, Varna, Bulgaria dimension variable seven pickaxes, a blue car (BMW), a TV screen, four channel DVD PAL screening

More than 30 different cases of pickaxes imbedded in luxurious cars have been recorded in Bulgaria since 2005. It is claimed this is a patent of the Bul- garian mafia along the Black Sea coast, constituting a message to the owner of the car meaning “We have unfinished business with you!”. Others think some of the dozens of assaults were not made by the mafia but by ordinary people seeking justice that they did not find in court, but this cannot be proved. Using a car with pickaxes imbedded in it simply as a form in combination with video documentation, the video-installation presented charges this metaphor with different meaning and connotation. Using the problems in today’s Bulgarian society as a base, its objective is to face visitors with conundrums. In the present complex and contradictory times, when the value of humane ideas has been changed1, it is not the job of the artist to give easy answers. Every observer will find a different meaning in this video installation and that is precisely what is important today, when pluralism is of enormous importance for the development of both art and society as a whole. Different documentary video interviews are broadcast simultaneously on the TV screens2, ones that were filmed during a hitchhike trip though the countries from South-eastern to Central Europe and in which the drivers share their opinion of the European Union and Bulgaria’s membership in it. One of the major problems facing Bulgaria is the existence of a mafia and structures similar to it in every single sphere of society, which also reflects on the international attitude towards the country and on Bulgaria’s relations with the European Union. http://www.vimeo.com/17813622 ______

1 The people who want to find the true value of the ideas should look and see the real essence of things through their outer skin. 2 The people interviewed are drivers of cars who pick up hitchhik- ers. This is a very specific group of people and it cannot be an official statement about the thinking of the European population, but it is interesting to know what precisely this subculture milieu thinks about Bulgaria’s relations with the European Union. In fact, these drivers choose to be interviewed themselves, allowing the author to hitch a ride in their cars by their own choice. Of course, some of the drivers (mainly Bulgarians) refused to be interviewed. ВЪЗДУШЕН ДЕСАНТ НА ПЛЪХОВЕ AIRBORNE TROOPS LANDING OF RATS action 2009, Genova, Italy 15 rat-toys with belts for animals and parachutes on their backs

This action was a part of NoPassWord No.0 festival for contemporary art in Genova. The rats, which have parachutes on their backs, were thrown through the windows of Palaco Dukalle building into the crowd of people, who are in this time at the Ferari square in the old part of Genoa city. But there, for security reason of the people, those were artificial rats and the rats were not white but grey. This is a photo of the last rat, which was thrown through the windows of Palaco Dukalle at 9 of May 2009 Genoa, Italy.

“Airborne Troops Landing of the Rats” is an action, which is based on my dreams. It has no purpose, intent, and probably no idea and message. There is also a possibility, this is just apparently, because according to me it has something to ware indistinctly, hardly and hardly, no one can define precisely. And exactly, this ambiguity fasci- nates and attracts me. I seek to find a way to the unusual, strange, and if you want, and useless and senseless. That no sense which everyone would understand in his own way. I’m not some- one, who necessarily holds to be understood when making art. For me it is not important to have cause and reason for it.

Probably, if there is a reason for me to do such an action, it is to shake the minds of the people and to wake up them from the apathy and to remind them that this world is not only place where they have to earn money, but the art is here and it gives them opportunities for journey to some other worlds. http://www.vimeo.com/17813360 http://www.nenobel.net/neno-perf-RATs-2009.htm

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video installation and performance 2008, Porto, Portugal dimension variable

In the travelers chest there is an alive man in embryonic position, who is the author of the project – Neno. Inside the box is based video- camera, which broadcasts TV signal with the support of a transmitter. The image of the sweating and suffering man in very uncomfortable position of the body in very tight space is received by the TV screen. The performance “Immigration In Suitcase” has been presented at the street infront of Espaço IMERGE as a part of REDline’08_Bordering on Us, programme in Espaço IMERGE of IDEIAS EMERGENTES (IMERGE), Porto, Portugal 3-4 October 2008.

http://redline08.wordpress.com/03-exposicao/ http://www.nenobel.net/neno-video-2008 -immigration.htm ЦИЛИНДЪР / CYLINDER video installation 007, Hidamari gallery, Moerenuma koen, Sapporo, Japan year of creation: 00-007 dimensions variable NTSC colour screening, sound, toy-train set, white cartoon cylinder duration variable

The toy-train is moving continuously in a circle, in which there is a fixed cylinder. The cylinder has such dimensions that its height equals the circle diameter. A small video-camera is mounted in to the toy-train. It is presenting continuously the image of the cylinder in wireless way. The image is projected on the wall of the gallery where the installation has been exhibited. As a result of the specific cylinder dimensions, toy-train motion and specific camera position, the image is changing in such way that at certain time intervals, the cylinder is seen either as a circle or as a square only.

The continuously changing world is woven from infinite manifestation of the two cosmic forces of creative energy, Ying and Yan, which flow smoothly one into the other. Using the symbolism of Eastern mysticism, the author humbly offers a simple example of the flowing of Ying and Yan by presenting the shifting of the square (Ying, Earth, Human, Mirco-Cosmos) into a circle (Yan, Sky, Universe, Macro-Cosmos). The viewer is made to look at this process through the window of the toy-train recalling in this way his own journey through the circle of life; that we all are travelers in the same train looking through its windows outside and thinking that everything is continuously changing but actually the world remains the same. http://www.vimeo.com/15960495 http://www.nenobel.net/neno-video-2007.htm

ДЪЛБОКО МЪЛЧАНИЕ / DEEP SILENCE video installation 007, Hidamari gallery, Moerenuma koen, Sapporo, Japan year of creation: 006 dimensions variable DVD PAL, colour, no sound, minutes, loop http://www.nenobel.net/neno-video- 2006-Deep-Silence.htm

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 He- sychasts 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. КАМЪК СЪС СЪРЦЕ / STONE WITH HEART video installation year of creation: 006 dimensions of the stone: 70 / / cm PAL colour screening, sound stone, TV screen, black curtain

Over the stone with bizarre shape is implanted monitor, on which is visible beating heart.

Neno aims to rehabilitate the stone in the eyes of society and to erase from the social consciousness the expression ‘a man of stony heart’. He, alike the ancient people, perceives the world as being spiritualized and believes that stone has a heart and soul. In order to show to the world that this is just how matters stand, a stone sacrifices ‘himself’ and allows Neno to impair ‘his’ integrity and to ‘implant’ in it a screen, where the stone heart can be seen. http://www.nenobel.net/neno-video-2006-stone.htm МАХАЛО / PENDULUM

video installation B ennial August in Art 2008, Varna City Gallery, Varna, Bulgaria year of creation: 2008 dimensions variable PAl colour screening, no sound

The image of a man hanged head below, making motion, which is very similar to the motion of a pendulum, is projected to the wall of the gallery. The top line of the image coincides with the top line of the wall, between the wall and the ceiling. The size of the screening has to be related with the natural size of the projected man.

There is no conception, but those motions like pendulum in their own nature are deep into the nature of the author. He has been feeling pain in his backbone since his childhood and this is one of the ways to mitigate this pain. On other hand, he often throws himself from one extreme to other extreme - same like a pendulum, looking for his self-identity. ВИЖ КАК БЪЛГАРИНЪТ ПРАВИ ИЗКУСТВО! / SEE HOW THE BULGARIAN DOES ART! http://www.nenobel.net/neno-video- 200-mhlo.htm video installation, ready made 2007, Georgy Velchev gallery, Varna, Bulgaria year of creation: 2007 dimensions variable PAl colour screening, no sound old TV, old clothes, plastic window-doll, plastic chair, old sun glasses, old hat

In the Buddhism there is specific term about “doing without doing”. Neno was impressed by this from a long time. In Japan he has found the way to do art and in same way to do nothing. And he could say that this is the Bulgarian way to do art. He has made a video, in which the spectators could see how he moves the fingers of his feet. In Bulgarian language has speech “he moves the fingers of his feet” and it means “he does nothing”. That is all. http://www.nenobel.net/neno-video- 2007-how-BG-does-ART.htm

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РИЗАТА НА ХУДОЖНИКА С ИЗБИЛИ ЧЕР ТРИКОТАЖЕН ПОТНИК С ИЗБИЛИ НЕЗНАЙНО КАК ЖЕНСКИ ГЪРДИ / THE НЕЗНАЙНО КАК ЖЕНСКИ ГЪРДИ / BLACK ARTIST’S SHIRT WITH PROTRUDING, NOBODY FEMALE’S SLIP SHIRT WITH PROTRUDING, KNOWS HOW, WOMEN’S TEATS NOBODY KNOWS HOW, WOMEN’S TEATS silicone, shirt silicone, shirt, wooden box, plexiglass dimension: 50/80/10 cm. dimension: 54/66/8 cm. 2008 2008

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