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Slav Nedev

  • Bulgaria (b. 1967 in Sofia)
  • Currently in Sofia, Bulgaria.
  • The most essential thing about a visual work of art is actually... invisible. A freelance visual artist working in the field of painting, installation, drawing, digital art, public art... sometimes curating as well.

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Biotope XII

Biotope XII

  • 2010
  • Inkjet print on Paper
  • Usually the image is printed on paper that is mounted on an aluminum sandwich panel (e.g. Dibond®) and laminated. Another option is the Diasec® process (face-mounting of prints on acrylic sheets).
  • 146 x 110 cm
  • The image was created digitally as a 3D scene. That allows for printing in different sizes, including very large sizes limited only by the print process and media.
  • The image as composition was created in 2010. Then in 2014 significant improvements in textures were made as well as some corrections in overall lighting.
  • Biotope II - thumbnail Biotope IX - thumbnail Biotope XII - thumbnail Full Moon, Sofia, 21 June, 2014, 07:00 hrs - thumbnail Biotope 17.1 & 17.2 - thumbnail Biotope 18.1 - thumbnail Biotope 18.2 - thumbnail Biotope 18.3 - thumbnail

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    Biotope (2008 - ongoing) | 2008 - 2016

Initially the works from the Biotope series started as visualizations of a homonymous installation project. Then it evolved to an open end series that reflects any new developments of the idea and Biotope reality. A Biotope (gr. βíος (bíos) “life” and τόπος (tópos) “place”) is an area of uniform environmental conditions providing a living place for a specific biological community. The Biotope project is a large art installation representing a “city” made of trash containers that has its “streets” and “squares” allowing the visitors not only to look at it from outside but to walk in and about it as well. The project deals with one of the most serious problems today – the problem with the waste that has already not only pragmatic but cultural and social dimensions as well. The increasing consumption leads to increased environmental pollution. The increased production results from the increased supply - consumption. The consumption has become a “social duty” that should keep the economy going. The consumer society turns gradually into a waste society. The message is quite clear: we leave so much waste after us that the place we live in, our Biotope, turns gradually into a dumping ground thus limiting our outlook and our movements. Even when the reality is presented to us as clean, tidy and ordered the truth remains that on a global scale the pollution increases and exactly for that reason – that the earth is a closed system – it returns to us no matter where we are and influences our life and environment. The coping with the growing amount of waste requires quick and intelligent decisions as well as socially responsible actions and behavior. It would be good if people reflect on these processes and on their personal attitude.


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