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Rado Kirov: Mercurial Echoes

Past exhibition
11 January - 10 March 2024
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Rado Kirov, Mercurial Echoes

Pontone Gallery is excited to host a new exhibition of works by Bulgarian artist Rado Kirov, who brings a wealth of experience and expertise to the art of metal fabrication. Stainless steel sheets are welded and shaped to make free-standing sculptures and wall-mounted reliefs which are sited indoors and out.

Kirov is a craftsman with a profound understanding of his chosen material. Using dynamic processes of hammering, heating and polishing, he transforms the hard and rectilinear metal into sleek, smooth and streamlined forms, whose rippling planes and surfaces suggest the undulating wave forms of the natural world.

 

These sculptures are highly reflective. Their mirror finish captures and transmits a fractured image of their surroundings and those that approach them. The pieces integrate themselves into an environment, whether it be an architectural interior, urban setting or natural landscape. At the same time, they assert their glistening, manufactured materiality. It is impossible to ignore such highly wrought testaments to human ingenuity.

 

Kirov’s ‘metal chasing’ – a technical term which describes the embossing or shaping process - becomes a literal ‘chasing’, that is, a hunting of, in this case, sinuous contour and sensuous pattern. He seeks and finds nature’s models: a flowing tide, the meandering line of landscape, the regular textures of a fruit or seed. These elements are then translated and expressed in his subtle manipulations of the metal and are subsequently refined and enhanced by polishing.

 

This body of work is born of Kirov’s interaction with hard-won and painstaking technique. He is alert to the sophisticated aesthetic possibilities of his medium and by both pushing at its methodological limits and at the same time drawing on hand-crafted and time-served traditions can conjure up the almost alchemical transfiguration of base metal into unique and remarkable sculptural object.

 

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Works
  • Melting Strip, 2023 Mirror polished stainless steel 140 x 65 x 5 cm 55.2 x 25.6 x 2 in
    Melting Strip, 2023
    Mirror polished stainless steel
    140 x 65 x 5 cm
    55.2 x 25.6 x 2 in
  • Melting Ice Fields I, 2018 Mirror polished stainless steel 118 x 118 x 4 cm 46.5 x 46.5 x 1.6 in
    Melting Ice Fields I, 2018
    Mirror polished stainless steel
    118 x 118 x 4 cm
    46.5 x 46.5 x 1.6 in
  • Melting Ice Fields II, 2018 Mirror polished stainless steel 118 x 118 x 4 cm 46.5 x 46.5 x 1.6 in
    Melting Ice Fields II, 2018
    Mirror polished stainless steel
    118 x 118 x 4 cm
    46.5 x 46.5 x 1.6 in
  • Balancing Cubes, 2023 Mirror polished stainless steel 120 x 36 x 35 cm 47.2 x 14.2 x 13.8 in
    Balancing Cubes, 2023
    Mirror polished stainless steel
    120 x 36 x 35 cm
    47.2 x 14.2 x 13.8 in
  • Horizon, 2018 Mirror polished stainless steel 115 x 115 x 4 cm 45.3 x 45.3 x 1.6 in
    Horizon, 2018
    Mirror polished stainless steel
    115 x 115 x 4 cm
    45.3 x 45.3 x 1.6 in
  • 3D Wall Panel, 2016 Mirror polished stainless steel 89 x 90 x 20 cm 35 x 35.4 x 7.9 in
    3D Wall Panel, 2016
    Mirror polished stainless steel
    89 x 90 x 20 cm
    35 x 35.4 x 7.9 in
  • Pyramid, 2023 Mirror polished stainless steel 55 x 40 x 40 cm 21.7 x 15.8 x 15.6 in
    Pyramid, 2023
    Mirror polished stainless steel
    55 x 40 x 40 cm
    21.7 x 15.8 x 15.6 in
  • Gravity, 2018 Mirror polished stainless steel 115 x 115 x 4 cm 45.3 x 45.3 x 1.6 in
    Gravity, 2018
    Mirror polished stainless steel
    115 x 115 x 4 cm
    45.3 x 45.3 x 1.6 in
  • Fishpond, 2018 Mirror polished stainless steel 115 x 115 x 4 cm 45.3 x 45.3 x 1.6 in
    Fishpond, 2018
    Mirror polished stainless steel
    115 x 115 x 4 cm
    45.3 x 45.3 x 1.6 in
  • Emanation I, 2018 Mirror polished stainless steel 118 x 118 x 4 cm 46.5 x 46.5 x 1.6 in
    Emanation I, 2018
    Mirror polished stainless steel
    118 x 118 x 4 cm
    46.5 x 46.5 x 1.6 in
  • Emanation II, 2020 Mirror polished stainless steel 118 x 118 x 4 cm 46.5 x 46.5 x 1.6 in
    Emanation II, 2020
    Mirror polished stainless steel
    118 x 118 x 4 cm
    46.5 x 46.5 x 1.6 in
  • Sandglass, 2023 Mirror polished stainless steel 54 x 58 x 58 cm 21.3 x 22.9 x 22.9 in
    Sandglass, 2023
    Mirror polished stainless steel
    54 x 58 x 58 cm
    21.3 x 22.9 x 22.9 in
  • The Connoisseurs, 2018 Mirrored stainless steel 46 x 120 x 155 cm 18 x 47.3 x 61 in
    The Connoisseurs, 2018
    Mirrored stainless steel
    46 x 120 x 155 cm
    18 x 47.3 x 61 in
  • Mood, 2022 Mirrored Stainless Steel 110 x 20 x 20 cm 43.3 x 7.9 x 7.9 in
    Mood, 2022
    Mirrored Stainless Steel
    110 x 20 x 20 cm
    43.3 x 7.9 x 7.9 in
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