ivan moudov: wine for openings. at Stacion

Tonight we went to an exhibit at "Stacion" Center for Contemporary Art Prishtina, and it was all about wine. It was -286degrees outside, so it was good to take a break from folding presents and checking this exhibit from a young Bulgarian artist, Ivan Moudov: Wine for openings. The guy prepared the wine for this occassion himself, in Bulgaria, and then labeled the bottles and brought it here for us to taste. Thank you Ivan, kind of you. The wine was okay, you could feel the freshness in your mouth, and it did make me feel awfully weird after 2hours. Nita gave the curator of the event a gift, and he gave her a bottle of the artist's wine, which she held it in her hand all the time.

The funniest thing happened when Alban, a friend, came and told Nita to put the wine in her bag, since people started asking if they could take a bottle, like Nita did. Of course, the bottles were part of the exhibition and had to be returned, and were worth a lot of money (so we were told). Anyways, Nita kept the bottle, we drank the rest and went back to her office to join the rest in wrapping the last of the gifts for this year.

I would have to agree with Valon, a friend, that the exhibit was flat and it was not new (his words were more harsh and he did not like it at all), and it would have been nice if he could tell us stories for those bottles. Fisi was even shouting how stupid the whole idea/labeling was, and why it was so super expensive in the first place. I was told that a couple of our friends had and performed such ideas earlier on, much earlier. I felt sad for the wine, since they were served and waited to be gullped in our throats, without anything being said about them. It was not that good wine, but we drank it, a glass of it.

We then ended up talking about the lack of theatre plays in the city and how the majority of the acting scene are snobs that are good at asking the government for money.