Huben Cherkelov

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Houben RT (born January 23, 1970 in Kardschali , Bulgaria , as Bulgarian Хубен Черкелов , transcriptions: German Huben Tscherkelow, English Houben Tcherkelov also: Hoben Cherkelov) is a Bulgarian painter and experimental artist.

Life

Cherkelov studied art at the National Art Academy in Sofia and was associated with the radical movement around the XXL gallery, of which he was a co-founder, among others with Swilen Stefanow . During this time he witnessed the separation of Bulgaria from the Soviet Union and its totalitarian regime. In his earlier photographs, films and works, post-communist Bulgaria and Bulgarian art are the recurring themes. Cherkelov later painted pictures of American and other national currencies, using the techniques of impasto , glaze , and watercolor . He also used bacteria to create images in culture media that are modeled on the obverse of coins.

In his video project “Reality Show” in 1998, Cherkelov documented a nightly trip in a limousine through Sofia, during which he followed the instructions of a stranger and which was similar to a late-night TV show. At the reopening of the Museum of Biblical Arts in New York, a work by Cherkelov was exhibited that shows the mutilated head of John the Baptist in a representation on wallpaper.

He lives in New York .

Exhibitions

  • 2009: Awakenings , Spattered Columns, New York
  • 2008: Singular , Luxe Gallery, New York
  • 2007: Houben RT: Works from the Brogan Museum of Art , DTR Modern Galleries, Boston
  • 2006: Hockney and Houben: Interpretations , DTR Modern Galleries, Boston
  • 2005: Its Not about Sex , Luxe Gallery, New York
  • 2005 The Next Generation: Contemporary Expressions of Faith , Museum of Biblical Art (MOBIA); new York
  • 2003: export-import. Contemporary Art from Bulgaria , Sofia Art Gallery, Sofia
  • 2001: Looming up - Young Art from Bulgaria , Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna
  • 1994: Kossio Minchev and Houben Tcherkelov, Ata-Ray Gallery, Sofia
  • 1994: AIDS , Studio-Spectrum Gallery, Sofia

literature

  • Hollis, Cynthia. “Houben RT” Currency: Art as Money, Money as Art . The Mary Brogan Museum of Art and Science. Tallahassee, Florida. 2006, p. 9
  • Karmen Balkanski. Sofia Houben Tcherkelov. Interventions in various fields of life. SIKSI, The nordic art review XII, No. 4, 1997, pp. 78-81
  • Marina Grzinic: "Out of Sofia". Snapshots in the Bulgarian video art scene in 1998 . springerin, booklets for contemporary art, 1/99

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Phillips, Christopher. "Report From Sofia: The View from Europe's Lower East Side." Art in America. October, 1997. pg. 49.
  2. ↑ David D'Agostino: Using bacteria to etch beauty ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Zet Mag, March 2001 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ctrl-z.org
  3. ↑ Iara Boubnova, Luchezar Boyadjiev: The State of Video Art in Bulgaria . Art margins, September 2000
  4. ↑ Randy Kennedy: A Museum About the Bible Aims To Be Taken Seriously . New York Times, May 11, 2005
  5. ↑ a b Patricia Pongracz, Wayne L. Roosa: The next generation: contemporary expressions of faith . Museum of Biblical Arts. Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, 2005, p. 49
  6. ↑ Artcat.com website
  7. ↑ Artcat.com website
  8. ↑ Press release from DTR Modern Galleries, Boston (PDF; 218 kB)
  9. ↑ a b c ICA website, Sofia
  10. ^ Website based on Vienna
personal data
SURNAME Cherkelov, Huben
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Houben RT (pseudonym); Черкелов, Хубен (Bulgarian); Tcherkelov, Houben (English)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bulgarian painter and experimental artist
DATE OF BIRTH January 23, 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Kardzhali , Bulgaria