Miryana Todorova "Movables"
frosch & portmann
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frosch&portmann presents Movables, Miryana Todorova’s first solo exhibition in New York. The artist was born in Sofia, Bulgaria and, after studies in London, Rome and Barcelona, is now based in New York. Todorova recently completed her MFA in Fine Arts at the School of Visual Arts and will be joining the 2012 residency session at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture.
Miryana Todorova has created her own wildly inventive and visually dazzling forms of mobile architecture titled “movables.” The exhibition includes a series of interactive objects, videos of her performances, and paintings. Todorova expands the boundaries of
personal space and explores themes of reconstruction, migration, flexibility, collapse of the everyday, and the overlapping of public and private spheres.
Movables can be endlessly transformed and are based on the principles of expansion and contraction. In Manhattan, where space is at a premium, the artist explores moments and scenarios that deal with negotiations of territories. Walking down a crowded city street, how much is one allowed to carry? How large can your suitcase or umbrella be in shared public spaces? Miryana Todorova creates “expanded objects for shared living” that question the body’s articulation in space and the formation of spontaneous communities that happen as a result of a shared public moment.
Todorova invites visitors to interact with the movables on view at the gallery. The expanded objects involve everyday items such as shopping carts, umbrellas, and backpacks as well as motorcycle covers and nylons that the artist has altered to form the “new multifunctional and reshapable space.”Think of the movables as a cover for your body or as an extension of your body. You are now the object’s conductor and you can run it as a vehicle. How can the movables act as an impetus to reach out to other people around you? Let people operate you by pulling and stretching the movables. Or do you have the impulse to cover yourself with the object, blocking out interaction with the outside world to create a more private space?
Todorova’s Movable paintings, rendered in vivid saturated fluorescent colors, explore the phenomenology of being inside or a part of her objects. The paintings are visceral fragments of a larger space, portraying a moment when something is in flux. Integral to the paintings are the spaces surrounding them beyond the confines of their visual representation; they question how to navigate the frame, the edges of the mark, the contours, and how much you can add and subtract to construct a new space.
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Schedule
from June 06, 2012 to July 22, 2012
Opening Reception on 2012-06-06 from 17:00 to 20:00