Sardonic, Press, Immobile, 2022
Installation view


Sardonic, Press, Immobile, 2022
Installation view of a series of digital collages (Ecosolvent prints / 130x80cm)


Sardonic, Press, Immobile, 2022
Installation view of a series of digital collages (Ecosolvent prints / 130x80cm)


Sardonic, Press, Immobile, 2022
Installation view


Sardonic, Press, Immobile, 2022
Installation view


Sardonic, Press, Immobile, 2022
Installation view


Sardonic, Press, Immobile, 2022
Detail (photo / 45x45cm)

Sardonic, Press, Immobile, 2022
Installation view (including of two connected piles of 130meters rope)


Sardonic, Press, Immobile, 2022
Installation view (including a series of digital collages and a pile of packaging sheets for cement bags on a pallet).


Sardonic, Press, Immobile, 2022
A pile of packaging sheets for cement bags on a pallet (dimensions variable) with design and poem by Lars Nordby.


Sardonic, Press, Immobile, 2022
Installation view (including a pile of packaging sheets for cement bags on a pallet and part of a photo series with a roll of rope in between).


Sardonic, Press, Immobile, 2022
Installation view of two photographs (45x45cm each) and a packed roll of rope inbetween on the floor.


Sardonic, Press, Immobile, 2022
Installation view of two photographs (45x45cm each) and a packed roll of rope inbetween on the floor.


Sardonic, Press, Immobile, 2022
Installation view


Sardonic, Press, Immobile, 2022
Installation view of two photographs (45x45cm each) and a packed roll of rope inbetween on the floor.


Sardonic, Press, Immobile, 2022
Detail (a packed roll of rope inbetween on the floor).

Sardonic, Press, Immobile
20.05 - 18.06.2022
Gallery Hristo Tsokev
Curated by Deyan Boyev

Within the saturated cultural events programmed for the Gabrovo Biennale 2022, part of the new partnerships the Hristo Tsokev art gallery initiated is with the artist Lars Nordby. He presents new original artworks for the gallery.

His creative work strongly expresses the current social theme in the area of art. The inequalities, divisions, and greed often provoke the author's sensitivity, who recreates them through installations, performances, and photography. Lars Nordby examines the obsessive human search for identity and ideological affiliation. A severe concept of his creative inspirations is the theatrical one and its presence in everyday life. His approach toward the idea and the material for creating the artwork and the plot is strictly conceptual, containing many reference points.

These predispositions are qualitatively creating a new situation for the Gabrovo audience. It will have the opportunity to see an approach to art that is charged with aesthetics and a considerable amount of intellectual material. Nordby's philosophy, the analytical type of consideration of a project, and the classical style of a gallery space all come together into a synergy, which experiments with impressions, associations, and emotions.
- Deyan Boyev


Photo documentation by Rosina Pencheva.