Exhibition "Man muß die spRACHE quälen, bis sie schreibt", 2017
Dadissuasori
(in Italian dissuasori=bollards and dadi=dices)
Intervention on broken urban furniture / Graffitti
La Pigna, San Remo, Italy
2010
The bollards were placed in front of St.Giusepe church in La Pigna, San Remo, Italy to prevent cars from passing and parking. At the moment of the intervention they were randomly displaced (pic.1). Employing their positioning and dice-like shape, I turned them into huge dices thrown on the small square to monument the shifting fortune in the competition between planned urban environment and personalized appropriation of space (pic.2 and pic.3). Strangely some functionary of the church found it blasphemous and painted over the dots (only) of Dadissuasori , making them even more sad and ugly (pic.4). How far an institution, and even more religious institution, can and should control public space outside its premises? Dadissuasori were the first permanently installed art piece in public space in La Pigna, with the potential to turn a sad destruction sight into landmark...the story isn't over. I hope the people of La Pigna will claim them back, after all the church functionary used water based paint.
SchAUGEnusss * Pandemic-proofed permanent exhibition with changing exhibits August 2020 -August 2021 Display window of Atelier 12, Münzgrabenstraße 24, 8010 Graz, Austria SchAUGEnuss is an year-long exhibition with works from my series CDoupbles and syllaBLEndings. The exhibits are exchanged monthly. Exhibition views are available in the eponymous photo album on the Facebook page of "SchAUGEnuss". To be viewed 24/7, from August 28, 2020 till August 31, 2021. * Schaugenuss (de)- pleasure (Genuss) of seeing (Schau). A compound word, by which in the middle accidently appears another word - "Auge" (de) - "eye" (en). |
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syllaBLEndings
Verses on light-boxes in public space 2018-ongoing Since May 2018 selected verses from the syllaBLEndings series are exhibited on light boxes in several public spaces in Graz, Austria. The verses are changed every two weeks. To this moment seven light boxes at five locations are hosting the syllaBLEndings: Steiermärkische Landesbibliothek, Cafe Stockwerk, Stadtbibliothek Zanklhof, Kulturvermittlung Steiermark and Cafe König. After each change of the verses on the light boxes, photos are posted in the eponymous album on my Facebook profile, and on my blog under the label CDoupbles :: syllaBLEndings. Flyers with syllaBLEndings verses are produced and distributed in Graz. |
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My Blog challengedgames.blogspot.co.at The CHAlleNGED GAMES blog was conceived with the hope to stimulate divergence thinking and challenge the viewer to rethink one’s routines and shift his/her perspective on the status quo. The blog was initially dedicated to the CHAlleNGED GAMES series and seeks for extended meaning in playing and its relation to aspects of human existence and production. As with the time I started to experiment with another system - the language, to apply mathematical logic and seek patterns in words, in the last years my publications are mostly about this part of my work. | ![]() |
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st.art Author: Veronika Tzekova As a manner of artistic creation in many of my recent works I employ existing urban situations, objects, visuals, texts and just add often a small detail, which significantly changes their meaning and/or function. St.art book includes art works in the period 2004-2010, some still in progress at the time and some as ideas developed during 2010. The selection is made to guide the viewer through an artistic process that lead to the birth of ideas such as Space NRGZers and Dadissuasori. The book ends with a couple of blank pages, which are to e filled in with sketches and ideas for new works employing the same approach. | ![]() |
Veronika Tzekova — veronika.tzekova@gmail.com |
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