Assadour Markarov

Assadour Markarov

Bulgaria/China

Dr. Assadour Markarov is a Bulgarian artist, educator, and curator, who has been lecturing around the world, in Japan, the UK, Ireland, China, and Finland. He is currently a full-time professor at Department of Fiber Art, School of Sculpture and Public Art in China Academy of Art (Hangzhou, China).

Markarov was trained as an artist in Bulgaria and China, making his degree in traditional Chinese calligraphy and later in the field of contemporary art and textiles, researching in UK and Japan. As an artist, he works in different fields of visual art such as painting, printmaking, paper art, calligraphy, sculptures, installations in space, and public art projects. His works have been exhibited in the 15th Lausanne Biennial for contemporary textile art in Switzerland, 7th International Cairo Biennial of Contemporary Art, and 10th International Lodz Triennial of Tapestry in Poland, “Fascinatie Texstyle 2” in the Museum van Bommel van Dam, Venlo in Holland, 2nd Beijing Biennial for Contemporary Art, and other major group exhibitions in China and Bulgaria.

One line, one thread, one space

Stainless steel metal plates, artificial threads, light cable LED

220 × 400 × 1000 cm

2022


The concept of this artwork installation One line, one thread, one space which will be made specially for the 4th edition of Hangzhou Triennial of Fiber Art 2022, shows a connection between the people from different cultures and origins, as an implement used to wove a piece of connection, linked with threads in space to relate objects installed on the ground.
Lines and fibers create a space for dialogue between cognition and vision, thinking and material through this artwork installation. These "people" sketched by lights not only walk on the surface of the ground but also are linked through different space-time and cultural clues. Thread marks a boundary not only between the material and the visual but also between the visible and the invisible. Also hints at possibilities for mapping an alternative string theory, a recognition that the abundant piece of string or thread has played, and continues to play, a fundamental role in mediating a relationship not only between material, tool, and technique, but also between body, mind, space, and matter.

 

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