Plamen Dejanoff
Heritage Project (Malachite Green), 2024

Mouth-Blown Glass (90cm x 60cm x 1 cm) & Neon Yellow Straps. Unique
On Cooperation with Bauhaus Dessau Foundation, Kunsthaus Graz & Austrian Federal Monuments Office Centre Mauerabch
Courtesy: Pinskummer
Photo: Federico Ghillino
Courtesy of Pinksummer.

The Heritage Project is Plamen Dejanoff’s latest project. The starting point is an 18th century building centrally located on the historic main square of Tarnovo, which was largely destroyed in the great earthquake of 1913 and on whose foundations the current house was built between 1914 and 1916. In a multi-year cooperation with the Kunsthaus Graz, the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation and the Bundesdenkmalamt Wien/Kartause Mauerbach, this is now being transformed into a public art center where visitors can learn more about Dejanoff’s projects and plans in Veliko Tarnovo and Arbanassi. The building on the main square is itself the largest exhibit and at the same time the shell and carrier of other exhibits that are built into the house or exhibited in it. In the long term, the artist plans to house his collection of magazine covers and contemporary art there. There are also plans to build a publicly accessible library and set up residencies for artists.

Between the beginning of June and the end of August 2023, individual architectural elements, including a double-leaf entrance gate, a stone floor, a stone column, hand-blown glass panes, etc. were exhibited at Kunsthaus Graz. There, Dejanoff also showed for the first time a color code he had developed, which assigned a specific color to each of his buildings in Tarnovo and Arbanassi. In future, whenever an architectural element from a gallery or museum exhibition is installed in one of the buildings on site, a light in the corresponding color will be switched on in the new cultural center for all to see, thus making the renovation process visible. Over time, the individual illuminated objects will grow together to form a chain of lights (Heritage Project Celebration Sets). In the spectra of light blue, turquoise, gray and blue, Dejanoff picks up on shades of flashed glass luminaires that were produced in Czechoslovakia between 1980 and 1981. Dejanoff had found these lamps in a depot that had previously served as a spare parts store for furniture in public buildings and had further examples produced in Murano because there were no longer any glass factories in Valašské Meziříč.

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