NEDKO, IS THIS YOU?

2015

Digital print on canvas, gilded and signed

Edition of 3

10x12x2 cm.

This winter, stuck in the Sofia traffic, we saw a grey Range Rover with tinted windows in the next lane. “Hi, Nedko!”, we shouted, waving and joyfully honking, thinking it was our friend Nedko Solakov: the most successful Bulgarian artist on today’s art market, known for his loyalty to grey Range Rovers. In a local context, this simple fact breaks two clichés: that artists are underpaid and unprosperous, and that a shiny SUV is the status symbol of shady business. The Rover’s window slid down; a muscled young man in a training suit with military buzz-cut and golden chain around his neck gave a long stunned look at the two idiots happily waving at him. The window closed back and the grey SUV roared away.