RADA BOUKOVA
Rada Boukova graduated from the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris in 2002. She lives and works in Paris and Sofia. Bulgarian curator Vera Mlechevska comments that ‘Boukova has a talent of using the visual world to compose messages which resemble melodious songs rich in complex text and subtext.’ Rada Boukova is winner of the M-Tel award for contemporary art for 2009 and BAZA award for 2008. Among her solo exhibitions are The Sky is a Color, Sariev Contemporary, Plovdiv; Start A New Victory FUTURA, Prague; Un sage est sans idée (A sage is without idea), gallery Patricia Dorfmann, Paris; One, Two, Three…, Sariev Contemporary, Plovdiv; Colour Blue, Stork Gallery, Rouen; Me and a German girl, Patricia Dorfmann Gallery, Paris; Landscape with a stone, Vaska Emanouilova Gallery, Sofia; STILL LIFE… the rest is fog and wind, ICA (Institute for Contemporary Art), Sofia. She has participated in many group shows in numerous European countries, as well as in USA and South Korea, among which are: Eat the blue a project by Jagna Ciuchta, 116 Centre d’art contemporain, Montreuil, France; Would You Like A Bag With That? MUDAC, Lausanne; BRAINBOW, Bertrand Grimont, Paris; Eleventh Hour, Futura gallery, Prague; The end and beyond, Ancient Bath, Plovdiv; L’hiver ou le déluge, Nathalie Obadia Gallery, Paris; There has been no future, there will be no past, ICSP, New York; The bold and the Beautiful, Rayko Aleksiev Gallery, Sofia; There has been no future, there will be no past, ICSP, New York. Her works can be found in the Sofia City Art Gallery collection and in private collections in Bulgaria and abroad. SARIEV Contemporary represents Rada Boukova since 2012 and has presented her work at ViennaFair, Istanbul Contemporary, Art Brussels and Art International.
‘Rada Boukova’s works appear to be temporary, even ephemeral objects; it’s as if even the minutest intervention can destroy them. The materials she uses make her works vulnerable to transformation with time – a process through which they might reach the limit of their existence. Stimulated by this inherent threat, our memory captures their tender state in the present moment… But this state is neither facile nor arbitrary. Each of Rada Boukova’s works is constructed with the help of a solid scaffolding of inner logic and mathematical organization of the objects… Boukova has a talent of using the visual world to compose messages which resemble melodious songs rich in complex text and subtext.’ (Vera Mlechevska)
Text courtesy SARIEV Contemporary, Plovdiv.
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