work – Radoslav Maglov

_{“Multipass acephalic and aphallic artifact”}
_{Color pencil on paper}
_{size 40 x 30 cm}
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_{“Perpendicular mutation of biological mode”}
_{Color pencil on paper}
_{size 40 x 30 cm}
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_{“Arbitrary cell division of perfidious materialism”}
_{Color pencil on paper}
_{size 40 x 30 cm}
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_{“An intermediate stage of settling symbolism”}
_{Color pencil on paper}
_{size 30 x 30 cm}
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_{“Untitled”}
_{Oil on canvas}
_{size 200 x 190 cm}
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_{_{“Untitled”
Oil on canvas,
size 37 x 46cm}}₂₀₁₉

_{“Untitled”
Oil on canvas,
size 80 x 120 cm
2020}

_{“Untitled”
Oil on canvas,
size 210 x 140 cm
2020}

_{“Untitled”
Oil on canvas,
size 130 x 140 cm
2020}

_{“Untitled”
Oil on canvas,
size 150 x 170 cm
2019}

_{“Untitled”
Oil on canvas,
size 90 x 100 cm
2019}

_{“Untitled”
Oil on canvas,
size 115 x 140 cm
2019}

_{Still-life I
Oil on canvas
size 8o x 90 cm
2019}

_{Still-life II
Oil on canvas
size 8o x 90 cm
2019}

_{Still-life III
Oil on canvas
size 8o x 90 cm
2019}

_{Primaformance}
_{Permanent installation at Sofia Zoo}
_{2020
Curated by Miroslav Yordanov}

_T_{he “Primaformance” project took place in October 2020, in one of the inner premises of Macaca silenus species in the Sofia Zoo. The project is being implemented during the reconstruction of the premises of the primate sector in the zoo and was proposed by me and the curator Miroslav Yordanov to the management of the zoo.}
_{The Installation is permanently located in the space of the cage and is designed to function as a biotope for the inhabitants.
The spatial installation located in the cage forms a bitotopic environment for the inhabitants of the species …. and is the passive element in.
Wooden logs structure and metal chains, stretched towards each other and towards the peripheries of the cage, transform the space inhabited by these members of the Macaca silenus species, into artistic, contextually oriented installation with performative characteristics. The unusual interplay between contemporary artistic practices and the monkeys of the Old World, forms a specific, highly entropic, biotope environment in a closed system – a cage. The stretched metal chains form a net, which similar to a neural system transfers information about physical interaction with the spatial structure and defines the integrity of the artwork.
The glazing of the cage is the penetration area, the invisible bidirectional membrane of an informational interface, a window overlooking the scene of the performance. It is the area where the cage communicates with the spectator, the frame that marks the picture plane, a cut into the artistic “tissue”. Setups transformed in performance and vice versa, without choreography or directing, derived through the formula embedded in the structure of the spatial composition, stretched to the border of the interaction of a primal genome and an analytical creative process.}

_{Stymphalian I;II;III;IV
copper-plated stainless steel, copper-plated pigeon dry remains}
_{size 41-36 x 22-29 x 5 cm}
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_{Entropic meal I-VI
porcelain dish, raw silk, cow intestines
size 37 x 22 x 11 cm
2018}

_{Corporis Rebus I-V
plaster, lacquer, silk, polyester fibres
size 58 x 47 x 3 cm
2018}

_{HOC EST ENIM CORPUS MEUM
installation / 2017 / variable size
“Hoc est enim corpus meum” – a phrase with biblical origin in Latin, which in common translation reads “(For) this is my Body”. Words pronounced for thousands of years have passed beyond their direct meaning, beyond their marginality. Maglov summarizes the image simultaneously in a conceptual and radically plastic manner, using universal values specific to the generalized truths that have reached us trough a dead language. The installation contains a group of sculptural objects that can be viewed as a whole but also as separate works – essences.”
“The installation itself evolves around the problem of the boundary between the individual and the group, but it is only its social reading. Formally, the animal pack taking the gallery room, raises a lot of questions, overcomes a problematic boundary between plastic stylization and contemporary marking of the image, establishing a universal object, focusing on a dramatic phrase. The objects are partly filled with fleeting volume and at the same time they lack of mass, loaded with tension but also with fatigue.”}
_{https://vimeo.com/256393753
https://vimeo.com/256393575
https://vimeo.com/256393439}

_{Bridging the gap
wooden stand, latex balloon}
_{85 x 42 x 42 cm}
2017

_{The maiden unveiled
plaster cast, fabric}
_{size: 80 x 40 x 60 cm.}
₂₀₁₅_{Bereaving identity, how this is affecting the process of contemplation? Is it that, the lack of identity brings universal qualities, opens the possibilities of how something or someone is perceived. Whether it is possible to think of the loss of identity in a similar light, whether it is the event that initiates the possibilities of general transformations. “The maiden unveiled” is a questioner, it is a formulation of an act, defining the range of possibilities, not a straight answer.}

_{acephalous
bronze
Size: 46 x 28 x 20 cm
2014}