This monograph on the work of Bulgarian-born artist Ned Solakov presents a selection of work since the 1990s. Solakov gleans his ingredients for his fictive, often absurd narratives from classical works of art history. In his 12-part series of representative paintings, he juggles with the cliches of Romantic landscape painting. The pictures, painted in the manner of the old masters, quote the painterly rhetoric and construction schemes of German Romanticism but make its theoretical superstructure disappear. All the pictures have missing parts, blank spaces, which are meant to irritate. On some pictures, there may be a moon missing, or a boat, on others a reflection. The viewer finally turns to the inscriptions of the pictures for help, and there Solakov meticulously describes what the respective composition is lacking. This way, he deconstructs traditional art historical preconceptions and the recipient's expectations.
- ISBN10 3775791175
- ISBN13 9783775791175
- Publish Date 11 September 2002
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 2 June 2008
- Publish Country DE
- Imprint Hatje Cantz
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 80
- Language English