Quiet Riots sketches (1-2)

The Mannequin 1 (1-10) - from Quiet Riots sketches. Size: 30 x 22, 5 cm, pencil on 300lb Fabriano Artistico paper, Anton Terziev, 2019. Fotomaterial used: Teodora Todorova

Quiet Riots paintings - 1, 2, 3, 4

Photo: © the artist. Courtesy of the artist

Part of SUCCESS AND SUCCESSION solo exhibition at National Autumn Exhibitions, Balabanov house, Plovdiv, 2020
Part of Quiet Riots exhibition, Contemporary Space, Varna, 2019

"In this series things move on several layers, with different speed and direction. The title itself contains a paradox.
The idea came from my wish to throw a bridge over to my father, at the end of his life. To repair our failed connection by putting myself in his shoes.
A peculiar archeology of childhood in search of lost time became integrated into the background. And on the foreground are the forms of resistance,
which are of great interest to me for being the light part of every person’s biography. When do they become conscious, what paths they follow, how do they entice us.
That’s why I put my son in open situations of generational and cultural dissonance. These are knots, which I’d like to untie and reconfigure myself."

The Bill 2 (1-10) - from Quiet Riots sketches. Size: 30 x 22, 5 cm, pencil on 300lb Fabriano Artistico paper, Anton Terziev, 2019

Part of SUCCESS AND SUCCESSION solo exhibition at National Autumn Exhibitions, Balabanov house, Plovdiv, 2020
Part of Quiet Riots exhibition, Contemporary Space, Varna, 2019

Anton Terziev’s graphite-and-ink study from the Quiet Riots series stages a moment of silent insurrection. In the frame, his young son methodically rips a fifty-euro note—an act at once mundane and unsettling. Terziev’s expert layering of fine hatching and broad washes gives the figure’s downcast face and tense hands astonishing presence, while his dark, unadorned shirt melts into the blank paper, isolating the gesture as the sole locus of meaning.

By stripping away any background, Terziev heightens the emotional charge of this quiet havoc. The torn currency becomes a potent symbol of rebellion against a world defined by consumption, and of the unspoken anxieties that dwell in youth. In this deliberate destruction of value, the child enacts a visceral refusal of adult priorities—revealing the widening chasm between a money-driven society and the generation it marginalizes. The drawing leaves us with a lingering disquiet: in their anarchic curiosity, children may well be the first to dismantle the assumptions we hold dearest.



Quiet Riots paintings - 1, 2, 3, 4