Sasho Stoitsov

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Sasho Stoitsov

“Passing 1982-2020”

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„Still, we do not yet have a Territory, which is not a milieu, not even an additional milieu, nor a rhythm or passage between milieus. The territory is in fact an act that affects milieus and rhythms, that “territorializes” them… It itself has an exterior milieu, an interior milieu, an intermediary milieu, and an annexed milieu. It has the interior zone of a residence or shelter, the exte­rior zone of its domain, more or less retractable limits or membranes, intermediary or even neutralized zones, and energy reserves or annexes. It is by essence marked by “indexes,” which may be components taken from any of the milieus: materials, organic products, skin or membrane states, energy sources, action-perception condensates. There is a territory pre­cisely when milieu components cease to be directional, becoming dimen­sional instead, when they cease to be functional to become expressive. There is a territory when the rhythm has expressiveness. What defines the territory is the emergence of matters of expression (qualities)… Many monkeys, when serving as guards, expose their brightly colored sexual organs: the penis becomes a rhythmic and expressi ve color-carrier that marks the limits of the territory… It has been remarked how quick this becoming is in many cases, the rapidity with which a territory is constituted at the same time as expressive quali­ties are selected or produced. The brown stagemaker {Scenopoeetes dentirostris) lays down landmarks each morning by dropping leaves it picks from its tree, and then turning them upside down so the paler underside stands out against the dirt: inversion produces a matter of expression.”

from: One Thousand Plateaus, Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari

Sasho Stoitsov

“Passing 1982-2020”

The idea is, with work done 38 years ago at a time of restrictions imposed by the communist regime, to illustrate the current time of restrictions imposed by nature. To suggest finding similarities in both times.

With the work “Passing”, 1982, I show the search and the discrepancy with myself in 1982 in Bulgaria. I find the same state of people now in a state of exception.

The photo with the text documents the coincidence of the season of making “Passing”, 1982 and “Passing 1982-2020”. Spring.

Sasho Stoitzov was born in 1952 in Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria. Since 1998, he has lived and worked in Sofia and New York. He graduated at the The School of Fine Arts, Sofia, Bulgaria, 1971. 1999-2000 studied Digital Media Arts Technology in TCI, NYC. Since 1980 he started to make solo exhibitions: „Program” Series, Rakovski 108 Gallery, Sofia (1980); “Signs”, Gallery HO, Berlin, Germany (1996); “Saxophonist Player in the Bathroom”, Ata-Ray Gallery, Sofia (1996); “Eastern Miniaturies”, National Art Gallery, Sofia (1996); „Paper Intervention”, American University in Bulgaria, Blagoevgrad (1997); ” “Painting from Life is Closest to the Non-Creation of Art” Municipal Art Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria (1997); “Mosholu PKWY”, Gallery, Match Book, New York, USA (2003); 2006 “Waterfall”, Sofia City Art Gallery, Apolonia, Sozopol (2006); “Fly” Arosita Gallery, Sofia (2008); 2011 “Hole in the Parquet”, Sariev Gallery, Plovdiv (2011); “NOLITA”, Arosita Gallery, Sofia (2012); “Street Art Inside”, Prague (2014); „BREAKTHROUGH” National Gallery for Art, Sofia, Bulgaria (2016) Curator: Maria Vassileva. “Characteristic justifiability”, Arosita Gallery, Sofia (2018). In the late 1980s, Sasho Stoicov was the co-organizer of the exhibitions: “11,11,88”, Blagoevgrad (1988); ” The River Action”, Blagoevgrad (1989); “11, 11, 89”, Blagoevgrad (1989). In the 90s he participated in all group exhibitions of the changes: “Earth and Sky”, 6 Shipka Gallery, Sofia (1989); “Kaymak (Cream)-Art”  Shipka 6 Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria (1991); “N-forms?”, 125 Rakovski Gallery, Sofia (1994); “In search of Self- Reflection”, Plovdiv (1994), “VideoHarT” National Museum of Archeology, Sofia, Bulgaria (1995); “Modern’s Arts Week”  Starinna Banya, Plovdiv, Bulgaria (1995),” The plastic image of the 90s ” , Sofia (1996), “ARS EX NATIO, Made in BG”, Plovdiv (1997), NATIO, Made in BG, Plovdiv. “Sofia Underground-2”, National Palace of Culture, Sofia (1998) Participation in international projects: “Africus ’95 Biennial”  Johannesburg, RSA (1995); “Labiles gleichgewicht”, Berlin, Germany (1996); “Exhibition of Contemporary Bulgarian Art”, Oude Kerk, Amsterdam, Netherlands. „Focus Bulgaria”, viennacontemporary, Vienna , Austria (2015). “Bulgarian Contemporary Art Exhibition”, Art Front Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (1998). Participation in the contemporary art of Bulgaria after 2000: “Export / Import”, Sofia City Art Gallery (2003) “Important Announcement”, Sofia City Art Gallery (2006); “August in Art” Biennale Varna, Bulgaria (2008); “Aquarium”, works from the “Art Contemporary Art” Gallery of the Sofia Art Gallery, Alma Mater Gallery, Sofia (2010); “The Other Eye”, Municipal Art Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria (2011); “Why Duchamp”, Sofia Arsenal-MCA, Sofia. Curator Maria Vassileva (2012); “SELECTION OPTION. CHANGE “, National Palace of Culture, World Bank, Sofia (2012); „NATURA VIVA”, Credo Bonum Gallery. Curator Vesela Nozharova (2017); “Areas of View”, Vaska Emanouilova Gallery. Sofia. Curator Vladiya Mihaylova (2017); „Autobiography Project”, Sofia Arsenal-MCA, Curator Nadezhda Dzakova (2018). Festivals: “Process-Space”, Balchik (1992); “Apollonia”, Sozopol. Curator Maria Vassileva  (2007); INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF GLASS – 2012, 2014, Sofia. Since 2014 Sasho Stoitzov is also the organizer of the contemporary art events in Blagoevgrad: Spring Festival for Contemporary Art, STAICHKI, Painting Symposium . Sasho Stoitzov`s works are part of collections such as:  National Gallery for Art, Sofia Art Gallery, MMOMA, Moscow.

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