Heavy Metal Radio
Heavy Metal Radio - drawing on Fabriano artistico watercolor paper, extra white, 300lb, acryl, felt-tip pen
Image Size: 31 x 21cm
Framed Size; 53 x 43cm
Anton Terziev, 2019
Photo: © the artist
Courtesy of the artist
Title credit: Svetoslav Todorov- journalist, editor and writer
Part of Small Victories solo exhibition, Arossita Gallery, Sofia, 2019
In Heavy Metal Radio, the earmuffs’ speakers are unmistakably replaced by a pair of hammers—an audacious visual pun that drives home Terziev’s critique of modern alienation. Rather than delivering sound, these blunt instruments suggest a willful assault on dialogue: we don the tools of disconnection, literally hammering shut the channels through which empathy and understanding flow. The hammers speak to our compulsion for self-isolation—each strike fracturing the fragile bridge of shared experience—while also hinting at the violent irony of “heavy metal” as both genre and force. In this way, Terziev reminds us that in hiding behind curated playlists and digital barricades, we are the architects of our own mute prisons.