The Big Red Mountain
The Big Red Mountain - study sketch, mixed technique- pencil, gold Schminke oil, sanguine and acrylic on 300lb Fabriano Artistico paper
Size: 56 x 73 cm
framed size: 62 x 83 cm
Anton Terziev, 2022
Photo: © the artist
Courtesy of the artist
Featured in
Title credit: Svetoslav Todorov - journalist, editor and writer
enlarged detail of I am the one that brings meat back home drawing
Part of NTFL series (2019-)
Foto material used: photography image of the Jamaican-American IFBB professional bodybuilder , winner of Mr.Olympia in 2018 , Shawn Rhoden (1975-2021) He died at 46 years old from a heart attack.
Anton Terziev’s The Big Red Mountain is a forceful yet poignant homage to the late bodybuilder Shawn Rhoden and a stark reflection on the fragile veneer of success in professional sports. Executed in mixed media on heavy Fabriano paper, the monumental, contorted figure—rendered in deep crimson—dominates the space with both power and vulnerability. Terziev’s deft layering of pencil, oil, sanguine, and acrylic accentuates the athlete’s sculpted form while hinting at the darker, more precarious side of physical perfection. Part of the ongoing No Time For Losers series, the piece underscores contemporary controversies—doping scandals, financial pressures, and media sensationalism—and questions society’s contradictory fascination with spectacle. In doing so, Terziev offers a somber reminder of how the relentless pursuit of glory can mask, and ultimately succumb to, the harsh realities of human mortality.
Installation view: Disturbances/Lost World group exhibition 29/04 - 28/05, UBA - Shipka 6, Sofia
With Svetoslav Todorov - the author of the titles of almost every work in the series Quiet Riots and No Time For Losers series (2019-)
Photo the author 28.05.2025