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CAUTION!!! Caution! Please, do not do this at your home! Even do not try!! All the footage in thеsе videos is shot as a result of long years of practicing Kung Fu, transcendental meditation and happy coincidence.
The main characters in this video are the famous icons of communism: SICKLE AND HAMMER. The action in the video is a visualization of Bulgarian sentence / expression / proverb / saying: TO HIT /TO DASH /TO HUSTLE / TO BEAT / TO KNOCK SOMETHING IN YOUR HEAD!!, TO BEFFET IT IN YOUR HEAD!! – Which means: somebody made enormous efforts to have or to achieve something that he/she don't need after that (if Neno explains it correctly).
This video is a part of his last series of videos "POST-СОЦ-GODS", where Neno deal with the religious and sacred function of gods and replace them with icons of the post-socialistic time as Lenin, Stalin, Mao and so on, by putting himself on the place of them. For him making such a parallel is important for the understanding what drive made so many people to follow them in the failure implementation of this utopia... Because, 23 years after fall down of the Berlin Wall, Neno still has a lot of "communism" in his head, that's why, the video also can be considered as his private quest to knock the "stupid communism" out of his head.
On the other hand, the Berlin Wall has been destroyed by Berlin citizens by hammers, pickaxes and whatever they had, but this Wall still exists in the people's minds and it is not possible to destroy it using simply sickle and hammer. Neno knows that, but he actually tries to remind that the Berlin Wall still exists.
April 2013 / in "KoshmART": contemporary art exhibition (catalog) GRAFFIT gallery / Varna, BULGARIA
The video "SICKLE AND HAMMER" has been screened at:
July 2014 – ZOOart: site-specific art festival, (catalog), curator: Michela Giuggia, Cuneo, ITALY
November 2013 - DUPINI LIKE: international video art exhibition, the Old Post Office, Veliko Turnovo, BG
October - November 2013 – EAST+EUROPE: Eastern European Contemporary Art Exhibition in the frames of the 3rd International World Culture Festival 2013: Lasting Legacies of Eastern Europe (世界文化藝術節2013-東歐芳華), curator: Mee Ping Leung, (catalog), HONG KONG / HONG KONG, CHINA
June 2013 – KoshmART: contemporary art exhibition (catalog), in the frames of Sofia Design Week, Sofia, Bulgaria
April 2013 – KoshmART: contemporary art exhibition (catalog), GRAFIT gallery, Varna, BULGARIA
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17 October - 3 November 2013 / in EAST+EUROPE (東+歐) Eastern European Contemporary Art Exhibition in the frames of the 3rd International World Culture Festival 2013: Lasting Legacies of Eastern Europe (世界文化藝術節2013-東歐芳華) (catalog)
curator: Mee Ping Leung
Hong Kong City Art Hall / HONG KONG / HONG KONG, CHINA
November 2013 / at the international video art exhibition
DUPINI LIKE / organisers DUPINI art group
OLD POST OFFICE BUILDING / Veliko Turnovo, BULGARIA