Nedko Solakov

Questions

2013

  • Nedko Solakov, Questions, 2013

    12 Drawings, Sepia, black and white ink, wash on paper

    each 19 x 28 cm

  • Nedko Solakov, Questions (1/12), 2013

    12 Drawings, Sepia, black and white ink, wash on paper

    each 19 x 28 cm

    A little man is holding his life (presented here as a gracious plant). “Why am I doing this?” murmurs the man while feeling the urge to scratch vigorously his itchy ass.

  • Nedko Solakov, Questions (2/12), 2013

    12 Drawings, Sepia, black and white ink, wash on paper

    each 19 x 28 cm

    A lonely question is glowing in the darkness, waiting for possible friendly answers.

  • Nedko Solakov, Questions (3/12), 2013

    12 Drawings, Sepia, black and white ink, wash on paper

    each 19 x 28 cm

    “Are you pointing at me?” asks the first one. “No, you are pointing at me!” replies the second.

  • Questions 004cut

    12 Drawings, Sepia, black and white ink, wash on paper

    each 19 x 28 cm

    Once a testicle proposed a threesome sex to a pair of figs. “What do you think, darling?” he kept acting indecently. “Everyone of us prefers a threesome sex with you and your pair-brother. What do think, darling?” At the end of the day all of them stopped asking question and did some action. Finally.

  • Nedko Solakov, Questions (5/12), 2013

    12 Drawings, Sepia, black and white ink, wash on paper

    each 19 x 28 cm

    A small existential question about the meaning of life is sleeping his winter slumber somewhere over there under the friendly snow.

  • Nedko Solakov, Questions (6/12), 2013

    12 Drawings, Sepia, black and white ink, wash on paper

    each 19 x 28 cm

    A real nightmare – a little man has a dream that his better half committed suicide by hanging herself, while the bad one enjoys a nice and tender treatment coming from the same nightmarish creature who hanged the better half. “Can I change the places of the two halves?” he screams in his dream. In reality there is no sound coming out of his trembling lips. His wife sleeping next to him would not like this.

  • Nedko Solakov, Questions (7/12), 2013

    12 Drawings, Sepia, black and white ink, wash on paper

    each 19 x 28 cm

    “Can I refer (in my dreams) to the most erotic image in my head as “Negro ass” or should I use the proper, politically -correct phrase?” a shy middle-aged man asked a volunteer-for-helping-people-in-need on the street. “If you can’t get a hard-on, don’t try to be too politically-correct” the satisfactory answer came right on time.

  • Nedko Solakov, Questions (8/12), 2013

    12 Drawings, Sepia, black and white ink, wash on paper

    each 19 x 28 cm

    Two questions marks having a 69, late-afternoon, sex.

  • Nedko Solakov, Questions (9/12), 2013

    12 Drawings, Sepia, black and white ink, wash on paper

    each 19 x 28 cm

    A square enters a triangle cave. “And if one of us – me or the cave – gets pregnant is the baby going to be a circle one; and if so, would that be good or bad?”, the square feels responsible.

  • Nedko Solakov, Questions (10/12), 2013

    12 Drawings, Sepia, black and white ink, wash on paper

    each 19 x 28 cm

    “Maybe”, answered a passing-by (on the way to some flies) spider, who loved to answer floating in the air questions.

  • Nedko Solakov, Questions (11/12), 2013

    12 Drawings, Sepia, black and white ink, wash on paper

    each 19 x 28 cm

    “Am I on the top of an island or the island is.....?” and right there the poor castaway got stuck and couldn’t figure the end of the question which was very helpful his solitude not to look so desperately boring.

  • Nedko Solakov, Questions (12/12), 2013

    12 Drawings, Sepia, black and white ink, wash on paper

    each 19 x 28 cm

    “To be or not to be?” seems to be a really dumb question but I can’t figure out a better one, ” he was really tired.

‘A lonely question is glowing in the darkness, waiting for possible friendly answers.’ Nedko Solakov wrote this poetic sentence in white ink on deep black paper. With this, he comments on a large question mark, which glows in the blackness in the middle of a small drawing. This series of twelve delicate ink drawings, each of which is accompanied by a commenting sentence, is titled 'Questions'.
Each drawing plays with the balance between image and text, between allegorical illustration and commenting language. In some cases, the works are characterized by existential heaviness and melancholy. In other cases they are more vulgar, ironic or humorous.
Nedko Solakov's drawings series tell short stories. The combination of images and text generates aphorisms that bear witness to a very precise, humorous observation of the random side of everyday life as well as the major existential questions of humanity.

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