Sofia-London Exchange Exhibition 18th March 2010 - 28th march 2010
Candid Arts Trust
3 Torrens Street
London EC1V 1NQ
Tel: 020 7837 4237
info@candidarts.com
www.candidarts.com
Private view: 18 March 6.30-9pm
The exhibition Sofia-London Exchange will take place at Candid Galleries in London between 18 - 28 March and in Sofia between 8 - 18 April. It is an exchange project between Candid Galleries (Candid Arts Trust) and Academia Gallery (National Academy of Art, Sofia) and will include ten young artists: five British-based and five Bulgarian-based recent graduates and graduating students, working with various art media - painting, photography, video and fashion.
This experimental project aims at putting together a selection of works by talented emerging artists from the two sides of Europe, the West and the East, and exploring the links, gaps, questions, and sensibilities that will arise from this merging 20 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall and in the context of the European Union integration. However, the show doesn’t have a political agenda, but rather an educational intention. Its goal is to encourage intercultural dialogue between the artists and to stimulate cultural exchange between the two countries, as well as present to the public in London and in Sofia a collection that is original, fresh and exciting.
The key word for the project is ‘exchange’, which in everyday language often has a mundane, commercial connotation. The idea of the exhibition is to subvert this meaning and substitute it for a more poetic concept of giving and receiving. It is meant to raise issues about the acknowledgement of the ‘other’, the act of viewing oneself through someone else’s eyes and the way these processes transform and shape one’s identity.
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