“A Cornered Solo Show #2”, curated by Zhou Hanru and Monia Trombetta, is Nedko Solakov’s second unconventional intervention for a corner of the MAXXI museum in Rome.
Writing and drawing enrich the stories conceived for this corner of the museum: short writings, aphorisms, double meanings become vehicles for comments and thoughts on social and collective issues.
Relying on a witty play on words – corner / cornered – the artist chooses a corner of the MAXXI to critically narrate highly topical socio-cultural questions and ironically reveal the most hidden mechanisms of contemporary art ‘corner’. Of the latter he explores the complexities, contradictions, alternatives and experiments derived from the urge to think, to shape, to negotiate with the human condition and self-representation. In the course of work, reflections and thoughts on the Russian-Ukrainian war that broke out in February 2022 were added to these themes, which prompted the artist to replace some of his stories with new works designed to recall the tragic events of the present in the collective imagination.