VTV Beginnings (r2): Jan Winkelmann presents Plamen Dejanoff at Art Forum Berlin (2006)

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At the Art Forum Berlin 2006 Galerie Jan Winkelmann presented an impressive work by artist Plamen Dejanoff (born 1970 in Sofia / Bulgaria, lives in Vienna / Austria). Jan Winkelmann talks about the work which is a modular structure made of casted bronze weighing 5 tons. It was first shown in the Museum of Modern Art in Vienna earlier this year. Texts on Plamen Dejanoff and a biography are available at the gallery website. Art Forum Berlin – The International Fair for Contemporary Art, September 29, 2006.

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00:00We're standing in the middle of Plamen Dejanov sculpture.

00:04It's a modular structure made out of casted bronze.

00:11It was firstly shown at the Museum of Modern Art in Vienna beginning of this year.

00:16And it's a work that is kind of the first step of a project that the artist plans in his hometown,

00:27Velikotarnovo, which is in Bulgaria, where he and his family inherited seven houses

00:34that are going to be rebuilt and restructured in cooperation with young architects.

00:40So there will be one completely new building, which is going to be an exhibition hall.

00:48And Dejanov developed together with architects Widerin und Konzet in Vienna this pavilion.

00:59And together with different architects Hubmann und Fass,

01:03he developed this kind of bronze structure as a facade for this house.

01:08As I said before, for the exhibition in Vienna, the facade was presented as a freestanding pavilion structure,

01:21however you might call it.

01:25As I said, it's casted bronze and we decided to show a smaller version here in Berlin at the Art Forum.

01:32The pattern recalls traditional moments from arts and crafts from that time, from that region.

01:46And in total the whole structure weighs five tons.

01:51It's particularly interesting that you usually wouldn't think of bronze as a material for a facade.

02:00But what is interesting, an interesting aspect here is that the, how to say,

02:07that's on the borderline between a sculpture and architecture.

02:12And yeah, as you can see it's very well received and people seem to like it very much.

02:22Can you imagine how to set it up?

02:25Well, each module weighs 60 kilograms.

02:30We were two, two of us, kind of setting it up.

02:34We didn't know if it would fit in the end altogether,

02:38like in terms of that there would be five millimeters too small or too much or too less space.

02:45But it kind of worked perfectly together because it's kind of very professionally produced and done.

02:54which is a very interesting and important framework.

02:55And it really wanted to look out.

02:57So that we à la vile wall in the Gócetitara de Gócetitara de Gócetitara de Gócetitara de Gócetitara.

02:59Now that's the first one is gonna be in the Gócetitara de Gócetitara.

03:00And it was a long time with the Bcostal of the Gócetitara of Gócetitara.

03:01Now that's going to start to look at these spookyiology of the喜billinian parcours .

03:02Right here we go.

03:03Can you imagine that you don't know if the Vile is going to be a bit smaller,

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03:05Thanks.

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