Plamen Dejanoff
18 June 2011 - 01 January 2012
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| © Plamen Dejanoff, The Bronze House (144 Facade Elements), 2006-2011. Photo: Fred Dott / Kunstverein Hamburg 2011 |
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PLAMEN DEJANOFF
The Bronze House
18 June 2011 - 1 January 2012
From 18 June 2011, the Bulgarian artist Plamen Dejanoff (* 1970, lives
in Vienna) will be realising the bronze sculpture "The Bronze Horse" in
public space. The outside façade of the architectural design is composed
of caste bronze modules measuring 95 x 65 x 10 cm. In Hamburg the
artist is showing some 150 elements that compose an open pavilion 7.8 x
5.4 m in area and 3.9 m high.
For many years, Dejanoff has been planning and developing "The Bronze
House" for his home town in Bulgaria, Veliko Tarnovo. In the city
centre, Dejanoff has acquired a number of building sites on which he is
erecting house sculptures of bronze. They are being arduously
constructed by hand in separate elements, so that since 2006 progress on
the first of five planned building sculptures, which will in total
cover 600 square metres, has been advancing in various stages of
production and in cooperation with various exhibition venues. With the
five planned "Bronze Houses,” Dejanoff will be creating a special domain
in Veliko Tarnovo for societal, artistic, and cultural activities,
which, given the lack of infrastructure in the past, are likely to be
unaccustomed. The creation of the bronze sculptures is not the only
challenge: another will be the possibility and invitation to make
accessible and usable platforms of them.
Dejanoff is now launching a first field experiment with the Kunstverein
in the context of the project "Art and Culture in the HafenCity." "The
Bronze House" will be making a stopover prior to and in parallel with
his exhibition in the Kunstverein Hamburg (October 1, 2011 - January 1,
2012). Considering the invitations extended to three Hamburg
institutions—Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Kampnagel und Kunstverein
Hamburg—to realise art projects as satellites in the HafenCity Hamburg
that address the intermediate zone of critical-artistic activity and
city marketing, as well as the confrontation between architecture and
urban planning, which has to be faced in the HafenCity, there is clearly
much common ground between Dejanoff's work and the "Art and Culture in
the HafenCity" project.
"The Bronze House"—erected on the site between the Hamburg Cruise Center
and the Unilever Building—will hence be a new, temporary building. The
walk-in sculpture will be both a satellite of the future house in Veliko
Tarnovo and a satellite of the Kunstverein. The (still) empty envelope
points to the function of architecture, but also to a relationship
between inside and outside, to space and its use.
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