Color photograph of the head and torso of a olive skinned with a beard wearing a suit and tie and looking at the camera

Daniel Bozhkov

Chuck Close Rome Prize
August 31, 2007–August 1, 2008
Profession
Artist, New York
Project title
Eternity’s Ephemera: Frescoes of Rome’s Daily Histories
Project description

I will work on a series of fresco paintings based on my daily encounters in Rome. They will be documentation of my performances—reenactments of events that will happen around me. Fluxus, Dada, and Art Povera meet Vitruvius and Pliny the Elder. The frescoes will be their own kind of history paintings, inspired by the flow of street scenes, shop windows, soap operas. Parallel to the monumental history of the Eternal City, they will stand for the powers of the banal, the ridiculous, and the inconsequential.