Plamena Pehlivanova

Rethinking purpose, innovation and human capabilities for 21st century

Category: Art

  • how I found meaning through art

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    This is not just another college story but about how I found meaning… Since I was fifteen, I knew that the visual arts brought not just joy but something deeper – something about humanity that I wanted to discover. I chose this path and I went on with it, attending private lessons, college classes during Read more

  • PlamenArt

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    Visit my art website Plamenart.com Read more

  • Art and the Artefact

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    Thoughts on Art and the Artefact within Baudrillard’s writing… Baudrillard’s criticism of modern art and the role of simulacrum within other mass media has turned my attention to my personal artworks and their identity in our “dream world”. Both Baudrillard and Benjamin work on the same idea that we are living in a dream world. Read more

  • Rabin’s Parable

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    The atmosphere of the fifties was charged with initiatives for manifestations, socio-cultural revisions and the ideas for individualism and openness. Within circle of relatives and friends, the artists of Lianozovo found their own art critics, lovers and connoisseurs. By helping each other to develop self-sustainability, the unofficial art group took their first steps in presenting Read more

  • The Fragmentation between Art and the Spectator

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    Contemporary art, the audience and the museum institutions. It seems that as contemporary art has deviated on its isolated path toward self-deterrence, it gradually filters out its audience and negates the historically social value of the museum institutions. Is contemporary art sarcastic and has the audience become an object of mockery? There are three important Read more

  • On the Threshold

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    Background “This is not a movement in art, not a new or fashionable style which is fated to disappear quickly. No, it is a new genre.”[i] It is the world of the total installation. Based on the conceptualist idea of Ilya Kabakov, the total installations originated as a movement in the 1980’s in the USSR. Born Read more