4x4 is an exhibition where Ivan Mudov shows four of his works for the first time in Bulgaria. Some of them were completed more than a year ago during his specialisation in Lyon, others are made specially for this exhibition. Vital and reflexive, ever-searching, Ivan Mudov is one of the young artists that shape the face of the contemporary Bulgarian art. Like the 4x4 system with the automobiles, thanks which every wheel copes separately with the obstacles and allows for greater versatility, each of the four works of the exhibition makes its own impact, thoroughly different, but at the same time in dialog with the others. As a result the exhibition has an increased power.

The large space of the Red Hall is taken by the video and sound installation “Festival des Liberdes”. The tranquillity of the bourgeois Lyon, caught in the frame, falls into dramatic inconsistency with the grumble of a demonstration coming from out of the frame. The attempt to go beyond the space of the image takes the spectator into the Nameless hall, with the screening of “Kill Kennedy, Fuck Monroe”. The painful, helpless sound from the touch with the photos of the 20th century idols proves once again that intimacy is impossible. In “The Matrix” -- two-channel video installation the author shows the much known film through the stories of his friends and so the film surprisingly changes. The fourth work is part of “Fragments”, installation in progress. The beginning of this year was the first time when part of it was shown in Bulgaria - at ATA Centre / Institute for Contemporary Art. On the prints in Gulliver hall the author has stamped moments from the “pilfering” of parts of museum exhibits. The installation, questioning the idea of museum and the value of a piece of art put in different contexts, naturally passes to the next hall. There, provoked by the specific museum suggestion of the Andrey Nikolov’s permanent sculpture exhibition, Ivan Mudov transfers parts of another, contemporary, art. Under the glass settings one can see fragments of works of ten world-renowned conceptual artists. This unusual exhibition will be complemented by photos of the original work, as well as texts for the authors.

Ivan Mudov is born in 1975. He graduates from the National Academy of Arts in 2002 and has accumulated an impressive creative biography. He has taken part in Manifesta 4, The Moscow Biennale, The 4th and 5th Cetine Biennale. His works were shown in Casino Luxembourg, Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Museum of Modern Art, Strasbourg, Kunsthalle Fridericianum Kassel and ESSEL collection in Vienna. He works in the field of video, photography, installation and performance.

Contact: Vessela Nozharova, vnozharova@redhouse-sofia.org, mobile 088 7522742

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