(Не) възможният проект: съвременно българско изкуство. Дебатът за авангарда във визуалните изкуства на 90-те в България
The (im)possible project: contemporary Bulgarian art. The debate over Avant-Garde in 1990s visual arts in Bulgaria

Summary/Abstract: The text explores the cultural and historical situation, still marginally reflected, of contemporary visual arts in Bulgaria. It takes as its springboard the chaotic terminological fi eld of the language used to discuss contemporary art, seeking solid grounds for an analysis of the problems of identity and lack of institutional support for contemporary art. Unlike other countries of the former Eastern Bloc, Bulgaria had no alternative structures to oppose the regime. The change in art discourse and representation following 1989 came from “within”, from the structure itself. This, in turn, is the cause for the antinomical way in which contemporary art becomes integrated and alters the inherited aesthetic views and perceptions. The text examines the possibilities and non-possibilities for the formation of contemporary art context in the situation outlined through analysis of the specifi cities of art’s subject position before and after the fall of communism.These problems are reviewed through an emphasis on the reconstructed debate over the “avant-garde” of the early 1990s.

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