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 install- ation 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. 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. ¿HASTA CUANDO? 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. FLAGS 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”.