Studio-Re-Creation

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Studio-Re-Creation

Working with salvaged and discarded materials, my art practice explores themes of transformation, resilience, and renewal.

Objects shaped by use and fracture are reimagined into expressive forms that speak to emotional endurance and complexity. Nikola Nikolov began his art education at the National School of Applied Arts in Sofia, Bulgaria, specializing in metalwork, classical drawing, and modeling. In 1995, at the age of 23, he caught the attention of legendary fashion designer Paco Rabanne, who invited him to Paris

after seeing his drawings. During their time together, Rabanne publicly referred to Nikola as “The new Michelangelo”—a statement that would echo throughout Nikola’s career and evolve into a guiding question behind his creative journey. Nikola continued his education at the Academy of Fine Arts (ABK) in Maastricht in 1996 and later earned his Master’s degree at the Sandberg Institute in Amsterdam in 2002. In 2009, he founded Studio-Re-Creation, a practice built around transforming discarded materials into emotionally charged, symbolic artworks. Today, his work explores themes of trauma, survival, and transformation—assembling broken glass, metal, and found objects into powerful sculptural figures. A pivotal sculpture within Nikola's Art, 'The Glass Rider', is a deeply personal self-portrait, shaped by years of silent endurance and rebirth. Through it, Nikola embraces the legacy once suggested to him—not by imitating Michelangelo, but by forging a path of his own: carving resilience from destruction, and revealing the human spirit through the materials we leave behind. Spreading intangible, embodied, and personal forms of knowledge is closely connected to my desire to preserve cherished memories and materials. At the heart of my artistic practice lies a commitment to sustainability —not only in the environmental sense, but in the emotional preservation of meaning through upcycling and material transformation. A central element in my work is the contrast between the rational functionality of materials and the emotional resonance of objects. I work with materials that often carry histories—discarded or overlooked objects, worn-out components, or belongings with sentimental value—and give them new life and function by transforming them into iconic sculptures or design pieces. By re-creating a client’s belongings and weaving their identity into the new form, I shift and expand the object’s original context. Through this process, the piece becomes more than a physical structure; it becomes a vessel of memory and meaning, a sustainable artifact that honors both the past and the potential of the future. Each artwork I create holds multiple layers of significance that go beyond its material or tactile qualities. These layers include an object’s personal history, the memories attached to it, and the symbolic value imbued by its owner. The true essence of an object is often hidden—its worth defined not by its surface but by the dialogue it inspires, the stories it carries, and the emotion it evokes in those who encounter it.

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Resourceful, generous, and quietly communal — in Italy, broken items are getting a second chance right where people live.

Public repair kiosks are popping up in towns and city squares, offering free repairs for household electronics — from toasters to radios — all done by skilled volunteers. These open-air workbenches don’t just fix gadgets; they restore trust in reuse, reduce waste, and bring neighbors together over screwdrivers and solder.

It’s repair with a heartbeat — not because things should never break, but because throwing them away shouldn’t be the first step. And sometimes, fixing what’s broken mends more than just machines.

02/02/2026

'What Endures'
A self portrait constructed from discarded plastic collected on the streets — broken children’s toys and domestic utensils associated with innocence, care, play, and everyday consumption — the work is rebuilt into something intense, fractured, and psychologically charged. It does not merely depict the self; it reconstructs it, redefining identity from social debris.
Through more than 300 hours of manual labor, the disposable becomes permanent. Hot glue, often seen as crude or temporary, becomes both a structural and emotional binding agent. Fragility held together through endurance.
The layered colors are not skin tones but psychological ones — yellows, oranges, purples, reds, and blacks carrying heat, alertness, danger, desire, and resilience. The surface reads like emotional stratigraphy: lived in, repaired, reassembled again and again.
As a self-portrait, the work rejects likeness in favor of truth. It does not ask, “What do I look like?” but rather:
What have I been made of?
What have I endured?
What refuses to break?
The horns push the portrait beyond the personal into the archetypal — the stigmatized, the feared, the misunderstood — reclaiming what is often demonized and turning it into something commanding and luminous.
This piece is unapologetic, raw, and resolved. It does not aestheticize suffering or romanticize recycling. It asserts that identity — like plastic — is shaped by pressure, heat, and time, and that what society discards can still speak with authority.

Height-150cm.
Width-80cm.

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Krommenieërpad 88
Wormerveer
1521HB

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0627046676

Website

http://www.studio-re-creation.com/

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