Water and Fire: The 2022 Gabrovtsi ART–NATURE Symposium

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Pages: 287-293
DOI: https://doi.org/10.54664/MUWF8589

Abstract:

This paper presents a critical review of the works created during the ART–NATURE Symposium, which was held in the village of Gabrovtsi near Veliko Tarnovo in July 2022, and organized by the Duppini Art Group. Land art artists from Iran, Turkey, the USA, Greece, Romania, Italy, Korea, Spain, and Bulgaria came together for a ten-day event including artistic work, exchange of ideas, and collaboration. It culminated in a series of outdoor exhibitions where the public could enjoy the completion of their projects. Expressed in works of water and fire, the river of the Symposium sprung from a swirl of agony, rushed through the various cascades and ripples of life, and closed with the transition from physical death to spiritual rebirth through nature and art. We start with death full of blackness and finish with death full of light.

Keywords:

Duppini Art Group; land art; artists; ancient Greece; conflagration theory; environmental art; site-specific art; sculpture; architecture; video installation.

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