The Yo-yo of God
Neno Belchev
Instructions: Click on [mixed reality] or [augmented reality] and check what works best on your device.
The Yo-yo of God by Neno Belchev is an AR sculpture that depicts 'Fat Man' the atom bomb, as a yo-yo toy, attached to Christ's hand in the gesture of blessing to create a single gesture that unites divine blessing and total annihilation. Like a modern-day Sword of Damocles, the work alludes to the ever-present and imminent danger posed by those who wield power, knowledge and technological skills in the name of their god.
Neno Belchev was born in 1971 in Varna, where he lives and works. He graduated in Mural Painting from the National Academy of Art. Belchev works as video artist and filmmaker as well as in the fields of performance, installation, sculpture, new media. He has made one full-length non-movie(2016), four medium-length documentaries and numerous short narrative films and video art works, which won awards from international videoart and film festivals in Italy, Malaysia, India, Romania, the United States, Russia, the Netherlands, Spain and Austria, as well as artist-in residency grants in Spain, the United States, Russia, China, Japan, France, Portugal and Bulgaria.
Gallery Gallery was founded by artists and curators Albena Baeva and Rene Beekman in 2019.
Gallery Gallery is the first gallery in Bulgaria that is exclusively focused on digital art.
Gallery Gallery shows virtual sculpture in Augmented Reality in three locations across Europe.
Ploshtadka (Bulgarian for playground, a landing site, or a construction site) is our virtual sculpture park in Sofia.
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