20 Billion Stars
2012
30 days action, ceramic stars, photographs, plexiglass, plywood – 4 boxes
50 x 70 x 12 cm – each box
Project description
20 Billion Stars is series of identical boxes. On the front side of which are printed pictures from a photo-documentation of an action held by the artist for 30 days in the summer of 2011. Inside the boxes are few ceramic stars as those used in the action.
Story behind:
During the renovation of the central square of his home-town (Dobrich, Bulgaria) Samuil Stoyanov goes regularly to the work-site and casts ceramic stars from red clay in the still wet concrete while the construction workers are pouring it. Inlaid and built in stars creates a map of hidden universe.
The square named Svoboda (Freedom) has a total area of about 150,000 square meters, which are overlapped entirely.
The funding of the reparation of Freedom Square is OPRD of the European Union and the action of the artist is made within the project Art of Urban Intervention, which is supported by the Culture Program of the European Union.
Exhibitions
2015 – Focus Bulgaria at viennacontemporary 2015, Vienna, Austria; Curators: Iara Boubnova and Vessela Nozharova
2012 – The Sun and Other Stars, Astronomical observatory Nicolaus Copernicus Varna, Bulgaria
2011 – Art Of Urban Intervention, ICA-Sofia Gallery, Bulgaria
