Architecture of Mind
My name is Penka Mincheva and I am visual artist from Bulgaria. After I graduated the art Academy in Sofia in 2004, I began immediately experimenting in different techniques and discovering new ways of expression. My work is often monochrome, but I am also interested in working with colors and shapes, using different resorses. I am interested in analyzing and recreating common subjects from history and life, using the tools of expression of the nowadays. Another aspect in my creative process is to take the chance and get inspired by places, happenings and nature and to bring personal input. For Teststrip I am presenting a selection of 12 videos on the subject of Architecture of mind.
Penka Mincheva to co-curate exhibition with Teststrip
From the pre-historic times the artifacts are known either as a movement, like rock fresco of a hunting man or as a three dimensional object such as sculpture or a built construction.
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As the same as the pyramids, constructed stone by stone, completing a whole assembly, the media, which depicts movement like the film and video, appears to be constructed slide by slide creating a motion.
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Speaking of architecture of Mind trough the methods of the video art, we can consider several aspects in building an image, a story, a message. Discovering the architectural methods of thinking and developing an idea, emotion or an impression.
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Nowadays among the most visited historical places in the world are architectural ensemble of The Necropolis, the Egyptian Pyramids, the Great Chinese Wall, etc.
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Building up an image of an image, creating an imaginary reality, constructing elements of entire though, inverting existed perspective, replacing the inner with the outer, constructing dreamed goals, manipulating a software engineering and speaking about human built system are subjects referred to a number of layers of a developing process of creation.
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In this particular collection of views are presence the direct and the indirect touch with the architectural object or processes. The art works are individual perspectives, interactive approaches, decompositions and re-installations and a document of a performing process. Dated from different years of the art development and presenting different cultural attitudes, this video selection is here to show the variety of construction as an image and and object. The viewer is invited to discover the architectural mind of the artist and to create their own construction.