Luchezar Boyadjiev

Alice´s Hole or the swamp of Marx-Leninist Aesthetics

  • Luchezar Boyadjiev, Alice‘s Hole or the Swamp of Marx-Leninist Aesthetics, 1991

    Installation: 7 drawings, pencil on paper, books, reed

    Various sizes: 1 drawing 173 x 90 cm, 2 drawings 141 x 95 cm, 2 drawings 70.5 x 95 cm, und 2 drawings 95 x 70,5 cm

  • Luchezar Boyadjiev, Alice‘s Hole or the Swamp of Marx-Leninist Aesthetics, 1991, Detail

    Installation: 7 drawings, pencil on paper, books, reed

    Various sizes: 1 drawing 173 x 90 cm, 2 drawings 141 x 95 cm, 2 drawings 70.5 x 95 cm, und 2 drawings 95 x 70,5 cm

The work tells the story of the birth-and-life of a socialist realist artist from before 1989 in metaphoric images. The drawings depict different scenes of that life: born like the Venus in the Botticelli painting with putty-angels overseeing the event, the artist impotent, penis-less, his wife is... lonely, he is monitored by officials and when finally he conceives of something - it‘s of twin babies with boxing gloves while still in their mother´s womb.

The books are textbooks on Marxist-Leninist aesthetics used by the author during his education at the National Art Academy in Sofia 1975-1980.

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