Nedko Solakov

Drawings by Nedko Solakov
Erna Hecey presents the gallery's first feature, a zoom into a foundational, new or perhaps overlooked series or event of an artist's career. We hope to shed light and draw attention to a seminal moment in order to offer a broader understanding of an artist's creative practice and approach.

Nedko Solakov, Lone #2, 2018
Nedko Solakov, Lone #3, 2018

FEATURE | Drawings by Nedko Solakov delves into two series of unique drawings produced by the Bulgarian artist in the last decade. Born in 1957 in Cherven Bryag, Solakov creates interdisciplinary works, primarily producing drawings, paintings, installations and video works. His work is fictional and conceptual, and often establishes a narrative sequence through a serial format that makes use of textual and humourous elements.
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Nedko Solakov, Affections #1, 2014
Nedko Solakov, Lone #6, 2018

"No matter what other projects I do, big or small, I keep making those drawings in which neither the text is an explanation about the image nor the image is an illustration of the text. The text and the image are one unit. Sometimes I make them fast, sometimes they need a lot of rendering. I never ever write the story first aside, all stories are directly invented and written on the paper." -Nedko Solakov
"The text and the image are one unit."

Since mid 1990s I have produced many series. The 99 Fears from Documenta 12, 2007, was and still is very popular (it belongs to Enea Righi Collection; Phaidon published a book with their facsimiles). The biggest Optimistic Stories series from 2008-9, comprising 123 drawings, belongs to Burger Collection.

MoMA New York have in their collection 25 drawings, Pompidou more than 30, other museums

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that have such drawings are Van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven; MUMOK Vienna; Israel Museum, Jerusalem; Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, SMAK in Ghent; Marta Herford; Mathildenhoehe Darmstadt; Deutsche Bank Collection; Deutsche Telekom; Serralves, Porto, Thyssen-Bornemisza Contemporary, Vienna and numerous private collections (like Maja Hoffmann and Ella Cisneros).

-Nedko Solakov
- Nedko Solakov, May be better #5, 2014
- Nedko Solakov, May be better #6, 2014
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NEDKO SOLAKOV, MAY BE BETTER #7 , 2014

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Nedko Solakov

Drawings by Nedko Solakov

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