Grande amore

"In big love only the moon is free" says a famous film actress. She has a lot more experience than me. The situation is similar in sculpture park projects. That is the reason I have not written for a while. I finance the project myself and with the support of a few friends, so I should make money for membership and exhibitions.

As regards Varna Municipality, I will tell you a secret - the annual budget of the municipality for sculpture is BGN 15,000. The budget of  Sculpture Park Varna Foundation for international professional membership  is a similar figure, but in dollars. Tomorrow I will pay the first contribution. It is a great opportunity. A matter of priorities.

How did municipal authorities apply for European Capital of Culture I really do not know. There is this kind of courage which is just ignorance.

And remember the meaning of the words we use. Evaluation, evaluated artist evaluated work, idea ... BGN 15 000 annual budget is the sculpture evaluation. An assessment of ourselves ... of our need of art. Of our professional horizon.

Professional career in art is possible only within this regulated exchange of values ​​and ideas that we commonly call Art Market. Evaluation is performed in free professional exchange – the Artist is assessed, the Work is assessed, the Ideas  are assesed. The exchange takes place in this explicitly or implicitly regulated basis of shared basic values. The base of this assessment, which forms the possibility of existence and which enables professional realization, includes three main components:

-literate audience;

-professional critics;

-organizational platform with a clear public regulation;

This organizational form, where external to the professional community institutions impose regulations and criteria ignores two of the basic components – appraisers and critics evaluating the ideas, the quality and the type of exchange. The target can be enlightenment or propaganda, depending on the orientation, quality and regulation methods. However, this is no longer exchange or market.

There is no professional market for art and sculpture in Bulgaria. There are many places in the world without such. As I have written,  the annual market volume of Contemporary Art in France, for the last year, is less than the turnover, which only one artist made at NY market. So the artist in France already lives in pink clouds.

Professional market can not be induced by external and non-professional institutions without complying with creators’ professional values. It can and should help, however. Professional administration’s primordial role is to ensure reproduction and sustainability in time for the successful community models.

So our issue now is not what municipality and state can provide us with, but what state and municipalities we want to create. Now, because it is still Sunday, I will make you happy with:

And the idea was to finish with Grande Amore ... calm down, the game is not over :)