Maria Dundakova

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Maria Dundakova ( Bulgarian Мария Дундакова , Marija Dundakowa ; * 1939 in Sofia ) is a multimedia Swiss artist of Bulgarian origin. She lives and works in Basel .

Life

After graduating from Sofia University of Fine Arts in 1966 , the following year she took body language training and was art director in documentaries . A scholarship for textile design at the University of Applied Arts in Prague , which she received in 1968, enabled her to participate in exhibitions in Prague, London , Brussels , Hamburg : "Modern Tapistry". This was followed by participation in the "XI. Salon International Paris" the following year, as well as her own exhibitions in Warsaw and Łódź in the Museum of Modern Textile Art between 1970 and 1971. At the same time, she also ran an exhibition in an American bank and the Banque Nationale de Paris together with Sonia Delaunay and won the 2nd prize at the "Salon International de Paris", as well as the "Prix de la ville de Paris" for painting.

This was followed by the "Communication Art" project and the realization of advertising posters (both 1975), as well as street installations and exhibitions in Paris and Aarau the following year.

Her first video work was "Interactive Signs as input of communication" in 1979, which was followed by participation in the "Salon Ecriture, Musée de Luxembourg in Paris. In 1980 she created her first work in the landscape and took part in the Salon de la lettre et du signe, Center d'Art et de Dessin in Paris.

Exhibitions

Works

  • 1981/82: Aspects of Contemporary Art, Grand Palais, Paris. Salon Ecriture, Musée du Luxembourg. Center d'Art de la rue du Louvre, Paris. Swiss Exhibition '81, Delémont . 10 artists from Solothurn, Gruyère Museum, Bulle .
  • 1983: Color as energy: La Mémoire de Geste project. Project The Path of the Shaman in the Sinai Desert . Pictures, paintings, paper objects, live performances in nature, picture choreography. Paper - a new artistic language, Musée des Art decoratifs, Lausanne .
  • 1984: Interaction between the language of nature and human language. Exhibition with Italian artists in Varese and Milan . Signs - Scripture in modern Art, Grand Plais, Paris.
  • 1985: Body as energy: Earth drawings, working with blue and yellow pigments. Further collaboration with the Groupe de Lettristes, Grand Palais, Paris. Exhibition in the Toni Brechbühl gallery, Grenchen .
  • 1986: Painting on large surfaces with the theme Le sacre du printemps by Igor Stravinsky . Transformation from sound to color and movement. Gallery Schweizer Bankgesellschaft, Aarau . Swiss paper art and small formats, Galerie Del Mese-Fischer, Meisterschwanden .
  • 1987: Monochrome paintings: dramaturgical tension between color, movement and time. Color as space. Seventh Art Exhibition, Stockholm . One Woman Show, International Art Fair, Basel . Object art, art museum, Grenchen . Book art, Heidi Schneider Gallery, Horgen .
  • 1988: Color as a ritual element in natural space. Project Le Sacre du Printemps in the Sinai desert. Body language interacts with the landscape. Drawings directly on the earth with mineral pigments. Pictures, drawings, videos in collaboration with the electronic music composer Bruno Spoerri. 1. International Make-Up Art, MUBA Congress Center, Basel . Live performance paper art, Kulturmühle, Lützelflüh . Kunsthaus St.Alban, Basel.
  • 1989: Farmhouse project: Handmade paper prints from a Swiss farmhouse and installations in urban living space. Exhibition Art Beyond Barriers, Women's Museum Bonn . Invited as a special guest at Haus der Kunst, Munich . 2. International Make-Up Art, Cologne . Live performance Sacrifice, Cologne. Hermes Gallery, Solothurn .
  • 1990: Stone Rite project in Massada / Israel: Dramaturgical script of natural space. Five masters of carborundum technique, Galerie Nievergelt, Oerlikon .
  • from 1991: Project Sun Rite, a cyclical work of art . It starts at the lowest point on earth ( Dead Sea ) and develops in the Brazilian countryside.
  • 1991: Project Sun Rite for Anna Livia with music by Bruno Spoerri. Video work in Dublin , European City of Culture 1991, video première at the Museum of Modern Art in Dublin. Participation in the 21st Biennale in São Paulo : Installation Echo Wall, painting, live performance with the Brazilian dancers Carlos dos Santos and César Volpe and music by Bruno Spoerri. Presentation of the project Sun Rite - Baptism, Performance A Man and a Wave, Strand Apoi d'or, Rio de Janeiro with the dances Carlos dos Santos and music by Hermeto Pascoal .
  • 1992: Further development of the Sun Rite - Baptism - Dom Dia Copacabana project, installation and painting. Performance, dance and music in Fundaçao Progreso under the direction of the Museum of Modern Art, Rio de Janeiro, in the cultural program of the UN Environment Conference.
  • 1993: Landscape as an energetic expression by Matiere. Landscape as an event. Sun Rite - The Core And The Fruit. Red color, red energy, monochrome painting, performance in a volcano in Lanzarote . Body language interacts with body language.
  • 1995: Invitation by the European City of Culture Luxembourg and development of the Sun Rite - Summer - Valley of the Corn project in which the three countries Belgium , France and Luxembourg participate. Subject: art and environment. Project Sun Rite - Le Mémoire du Geste, Summer Solstice. Project Hommage à la terre, earth sculpture. Landscape interacts between natural and social events.
  • 1996/97: Further development of the Sun Rite - The Core And The Fruit project. Performance with the Brazilian dancers Carlos dos Santos and César Volpe. International UNESCO Congress in Calgary, Sardinia , Art and Environment, Sun Rite - The dance of fire. Racu sculptures. Several performances, paintings and installations in collaboration with Martin Neukomm , composer of electronic music, Marco Bähler , didgeridoo and Jacques Widmer , percussion . Exhibition at the Frauen-Kunstform in Bern . Performances in the botanical garden and in the art museum, Bern.
  • 1998: Project Sun Rite - Berlin Tides. Visiting professor at the University of Dramatic Art, Berlin . Farewell performance with students: Berlin mon amour. Exhibition Berlin Tides at the Frauen-Kunstform in Bern.
  • 1999: Project Sun Rite - Green, I love you, Green based on a poem by Garcia Lorca and performance and exhibition in Herisau . Project Sun Rite - Rhythm. Video film Berlin Tides, exhibition Zimmermann-Haus, Brugg .
  • 2000: Project Sun Rite - Rhythm / Zero time as now, Project Sonar - Dance of ground rhythms of the Rhine. Exhibition in the art space in Lucerne and Galerie Pia-Anna Borner, Lucerne.
  • 2001: Project Modern Times - Public Art. Further development of Communication Art. Photos of urban life. Participation in various Swiss and foreign art exhibitions. Own exhibition I'm in the Pia-Anna Borner gallery in Lucerne and in the Golden Calf in Aarau. Sun Rite - the intoxication - sound installation.
  • 2002: Further development of the farmhouse project. Exhibition salt and honey in Aarau town hall. Time Story, exhibition in the Schützenhaus in Safenwil . Music work Solstice in collaboration with audio designer Holger Stenschke, presented and performed at imeb, the 32nd festival of electronic music and creations. Electronic music and image installation project Verte, je t'aime verte.
  • 2003: Project Sun Rite - La terre, ma passion, project for paintings and sound installations.

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personal data
SURNAME Dundakova, Maria
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Дундакова, Мария; Dundakowa, Marija
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bulgarian-Swiss artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Sofia