Project description

Location: City of Dobrich, Bulgaria

On Labor day between 17.00 and 19.00 p.m. Samuil Stoyanov made a performance in the park in front of the City Art gallery of Dobrich. The date was selected internationally with the aim to focus on the meaning of the action. Although the Labor Day holiday is rather dedicated to the rights of rest of the workers, the artist worked for two hours while demonstrating his position that art happens everywhere in the space between the artwork and the audience. In his view, the viewer often needs to make an effort on his / her own in order to experience the “meeting”.

Part of the “material” for the performance is the carved stone sculpture in front of the city art gallery which is an interesting and contradictory object in itself. Neither the author, nor the title, nor the legal owner of this sculpture is known. All these murky circumstances and lack of specifics make this sculpture a rather liberated artistic work while creating a perfect context for the realization of a new artwork.

This action, which consisted of the artist cleaning up and thus re-activating the previously invisible art work for the space of the city, is part of the cycle of urban interventions which Samuil Stoyanov undertook in the framework of his participation in the international art project Art of Urban Intervention within the section organized by the Institute of Contemporary Art-Sofia.

With the support of the Culture Programme of the European Union.

This action is dedicated to the artist’s grandmother Efrosina Todorova Martinova.