Brooming Of The System

Brooming Of The System - object. Size: 26 x 33 x 11 cm, Edition 1+1AP, 2017, Anton Terziev. Photo: © the artist. Nikolai Nedelchev collection

An object made by brushes, collected from contemporary Bulgarian artists - Sasho Stoitzov, Michaela Zoeva, Stanislav Belovski, Deyan Yanev, Velislava Gecheva, Radoil Serafimov, Samuil Stoyanov, A. Jekov and Ivaylo Vinchev.
And also, thanks to the valuable assistance of Philip Zidarov, the object contains three brushes by the great and always inspiring Lyuben Zidarov

Unexhibited

The title is ref to The Broom of the System, a novel by David Foster Wallace

"... the possibilities for changing the context and meaning of an object, and using it as a separate artistic artefact are explored in the works of artist, such as Pravdoliub Ivanov, Anton Terziev, Samuil Stoyanov, Vikenti Komitski, Peter Tsanev and Zoran Georgiev. In Anton Terziev’s view the object can be anything: from food to old cellphones, to toothbrushes and lace tablecloths, in combination with an ironic title. For his work Brooming of the System (2017), for example, he collects paintbrushes and pencils from his fellow artists Sasho Stoitsov, Deyan Yanev and Samuil Stoyanov, and attaches them to a wooden broomstick." from Postmodernistic incorporation of media and conceptual art. The role of text and object in contemporary art.

Dessislava Mileva - art historian

Brooming Of The System -detail. Photo: © the artist

Anton Terziev’s Brooming of the System is the art-world equivalent of a mic drop—only he swaps the mic for a humble broom whose “bristles” are scavenged paintbrushes borrowed from his Bulgarian peers. What looks at first like a cheeky domestic prop swiftly reveals itself as a razor-sharp allegory: this is no mere tool for tidying, but a collective manifesto in bristles.

Each paint-scarred handle carries its own backstory, yet together they form a single, purpose-built instrument of “creative cleansing.” Terziev slyly implies that real artistic power doesn’t reside in solitary genius but in the friction—and solidarity—of many hands. Brooming of the System doesn’t just sweep away dust; it challenges us to shake loose institutional cobwebs, dust off complacency, and make space for fresh ideas. In short: don’t just hang art on the wall—pick up the broom and get to work.