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Ivan Kanchev: Man, where are you? (Night Visions), 2012-2022

April 8, 2022
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Ivan Kanchev, Plate – Fight in Eden, 2017
Passing, 2022
Passing, (detail), 2022
Passing, 2022
Passing, (detail), 2022
Man, where are you?, 2021
Man, where are you? (detail), 2021
Man, where are you?, 2016
Excitement, 2016
Excitement (detail), 2016
The wheel of life, 2016
Jacob’s fight with the angel, 2015
In Eden, 2017
In Eden (detail), 2017
Fight in Eden, 2017
Adam and Eve, 2017
Unrest in Eden, 2017
Unrest in Eden (detail), 2017
Еclipse, 2018
Еclipse (detail), 2018
Еclipse, 2019
Еclipse (detail), 2019
Еclipse, 2014
Conversation, 2018

Ivan Kanchev: Man, where are you? (Night Visions), 2012-2022

The project Man, where are you? concerns current problems of the present existence. Everything is fragmented in ecological, social and political terms. The earth is notched. The man is small and naked, confused and defenseless, represented with outstretched arms and legs apart – in a poetic and artistic crucifix. It is an object-subject, center and periphery, meaning and time.

The man runs, looking to find his foundations. His human nature is shaken. Embroiled in the mosaic of continuing problems, frantically seeks happiness in the maze of life. But is he able to come to his senses and find himself? Will he find happiness in this direction of search?

The depicted scenes with clay and fire in Man, where are you? are nocturnal, as in a dream, as picture visions. Thematically they are derived from the heritage of universal history and culture. The monumental vessel shape is symbolic. The circle is like an echo of the ideal, as an image of Mother Earth, like the Sun. The rectangle is reminiscent of human existence, the boundaries of time, space, and corporeality.

The message in the project Man, where are you? is: (1) a call to return to natural life, (2) a call to the essential in art, (3) a call to be oriented toward the primary meaning of being, (4) a call to come out of spiritual death, (5) a call to self-realization through self-expression.

The project combines sculpture and utilitarian ceramics, through the structure of the panel and the mosaic technique as a painting and with pronounced graphic moments. I am developing the ancient Balkan black Thracian pottery as a painting. Thus I seek universality based on national traditions.

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  • Plate – Passing, 2022, red clay, reduction, smoking, 110x110x6 cm
  • Plate – Passing, (detail), 2022, red clay, reduction, smoking, 110x110x6 cm
  • Plate – Passing, 2022, red clay, reduction, smoking, 70x70x5 cm
  • Plate – Passing (detail), 2022, red clay, reduction, smoking, 70x70x5 cm
  • Man, where are you?, 2021, porcelain, glaze, 180x180x13 cm
  • Man, where are you? (detail), 2021, porcelain, glaze, reduction, smoking, 180x180x13 cm
  • Man, where are you?, 2016, porcelain, reduction, smoking, 140x140x10 cm
  • Plate – Excitement, 2016, red clay, reduction, smoking, 85x85x6 cm
  • Plate – Excitement (detail), 2016, red clay, reduction, smoking, 85x85x6 cm
  • Plate – The wheel of life, 2016, red clay, reduction, smoking, 80x80x5 cm
  • Plate – Jacob’s fight with the angel, 2015, stoneware, reduction, smoking, 120x120x12 cm
  • Plate – In Eden, 2017, red clay, reduction, smoking, 120x120x11 cm
  • Plate – In Eden (detail), 2017, red clay, reduction, smoking, 120x120x11 cm
  • Plate – Fight in Eden, 2017, red clay, reduction, smoking, 80x80x12 cm
  • Plate – Adam and Eve, 2017, red clay, reduction, smoking, 130x130x8 cm
  • Plate – Unrest in Eden, 2017, faience, reduction, smoking, 80x80x8 cm
  • Plate – Unrest in Eden (detail), 2017, faience, reduction, smoking, 80x80x8 cm
  • Plate – Еclipse, 2018, red clay, reduction, smoking, 160x160x10 cm
  • Plate – Еclipse (detail), 2018, red clay, reduction, smoking, 160x160x10 cm
  • Plate – Еclipse, 2019, faience, reduction, smoking, 55x55x9 cm
  • Plate – Еclipse (detail), 2019, faience, reduction, smoking, 55x55x9 cm
  • Plate – Еclipse, 2014, red clay, reduction, smoking, 90x90x8 cm
  • Plate – Conversation, 2018, red clay, reduction, smoking, radio elements, 150x150x5 cm
Tags: Ivan Kanchev

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