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Archive - 2004
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Drawing, 2004
Drawing, 2004
The Switch, 2003, video
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MEETING POINT
Kosta Tonev. The Full Image
26 November 2004 - 19 December 2004
“The full picture” project could be defined as a study of the ways through which visual perception overcomes the fragmentariness of image. This too general definition in fact refers to a series of ambiguous images created to lure the vision of an abstract plane between the fragment, active on its own and the whole picture. At the same time, they form a series of impossible and absurd situations.
“The full picture” is the name of the exhibition’s central work. This is a photographic installation consisting of nine parts, ordered as a unit, like a puzzle makes a whole picture. Every single module of this picture contains the endless triviality of a situation, easy to recognize and decode. These are three identical kinescopes in different
The concept in the photography named ‘One isolated moment’ has been constructed in a similar way. It depicts a girl in a ‘low start’ position. Contrary to all expectations, her whole pre-start impetus is directed towards a flat, white wall.
The video ‘Switch Over’ is also a part of ‘The full picture’. Its object is a building in the center of Vienna, predominantly remarkable with its untypical length of 1.5 km. – completely in the characteristic spirit of socialist megalomania. The video documents a performance in which one person runs the whole distance of Karl Marx Hof. For the time for which he reaches its opposite end, the night is changed by day.
The paradox comes from the common aim of all these optical illusions and provocations and it is the most objective re-discovery of truth. The very expression “the full picture” is like a model metaphor of “the whole truth”, which suggests exposure of the controversial reality.
Svetlana Kuyumdjieva
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BORIS KOLEV
LAYERS
23 November 2004 - 15 December 2004
The “Layers” exhibition presents the latest works of Boris Kolev, created especially for the area of Sofia City Art Gallery, in 2004. The artist possesses a specific method of work, combining and piling in layers a variety of materials: colored paper pulp, sawdust, charcoal, acrylic pigments and objects that were found. The impact of these creations is due to the work with colors, structure and texture of the painting surfaces. These creations are best perceived through intuition and senses.
On one hand, the exhibition’s title embodies the typical for the author technique, and on the other hand, it fits in the exhibition itself; the next ‘layer’ in his consistent creative development.
Boris Kolev was born in 1970, in Sofia. In 1989, he finished the National School of Arts in Sofia; in 1996 he graduated from the National Academy of Arts, major Painting. From 1991 to 2003, he organized numerous one-man shows in Bulgaria, Great Britain, Germany and Turkey. In addition to that, he has participated in several general art exhibitions in Bulgaria, Austria, Belgium and Turkey. Some of his paintings are owned by Sofia City Art Gallery and the National Palace of Culture, private collections in Bulgaria, Germany, the USA, Belgium, Canada, France, Great Britain, Turkey, Greece and Spain.
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BOIKO MITKOV
THE SILVER RIVER
21 November 2004 - 15 December 2004
After absence of long years from Bulgarian art landscape, the sculptor Boyko Mitkov came back with the exhibition the Silver river. It will show the viewers his latest not shown works created in the last year. The exhibition was carried out on the occasion of the fifty-year anniversary of the artist.
The title “the Silver river” is a poetical interpretation. The author uses this metaphor to generalize and define the process of his creative development throughout the years. The exhibition is subordinate to an overall artistic idea and is created especially for the space of Sofia City Art Gallery. Nevertheless, each work exists independently and irrespective of the rest. The exposition includes litho prints, drawings, reliefs and spatial sculptural compositions.
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Richard Misrach. Untitled, 2003
Wolf Kuhn. Stately and Bright, 2000
Ivo Hadjimishev. Free Spaces, 2002
Caio Fonseca. Quintena, 2004
Greg Rose. East Entry, 2003
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ART IN THE NEW US EMBASSY IN BULGARIA
U.S. Embassy Unveils Artwork of New U.S. Embassy Complex
16 November 2004 - 1 December 2004
The U.S. Embassy in Bulgaria will mount a major exhibit of American and Bulgarian art at the Sofia City Gallery, November 15 - December 1. These paintings, photographs and sculptures will decorate the offices and grounds of the new U.S. Embassy complex in Sofia, which is slated for completion later this year. This new Embassy building will not only house the offices and staff of the U.S. Embassy; it will also contain major works of art by American and Bulgarian artists. The exhibit at the City Gallery will offer to the Bulgarian public the unique opportunity to view these major works before they are moved to the new U.S. Embassy building.
Among the Bulgarian artists to be featured in this collection are; Svetlin Roussev, Ivo Hadjimishiev, Emil Christov, Emil Popov, Nadezhda Lyahova, Emil Mirchev, Penka Nikova, Pavel Koichev, Elena Panayatova, Ivan Tomanov, and the team of Missirkov/Bodganov. Featured American artists include Wolf Kahn, Jim Campbell, Richard Misrach, Francesca Pastine, Greg Rose and Antonio Murado, Stuart Allen, Robert Cottingham, Ken Fandell, Caio Fonseca and Pamela Harris.
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Emil Christov. From Yellow Pages series, 2001
Ivo Hadjimishev. State of the Stone, 2004
Boris Missirkov / Georgi Bogdanov. RADAR Living, 2003-04
Venzislava Vassileva / Gabriela Aleksandrova. Peculiar Cases, 2004
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Collection Bulgarian Photographic Association and Friends
Images from the blind spot
22 October 2004 - 14 November 2004
Sofia City Art Gallery presents an exhibition of contemporary Bulgarian photography.
The exhibition features works of the following authors: Alexander Evtimov/ Svetoslav Stoyanov, Boris Misirkov / Georgui Bogdanov, Boryana Pandova, Ventzislava Vassileva / Gabriela Alexandrova, Dimiter Dilkov, Elena Spassova, Emil Hristov, Ivo Hadjimishev, Iordan Iordanov- Uri, Lubomir Mladenov, Milen Stankov, Nadejda Oleg Liahova, Nadejda Chipeva, Simeon Levi, Stanka Tzonkova-Usha.
The project “Images from the blind spot” is also presented (in cooperation with the ‘Red House’ center for culture and debate and with the support of the ‘Pro Helvetia’ Swiss foundation for culture), and its participants are: Vesselina Nikolaeva, Ivo Hadjimishev, Krassimir Andonov, Marina Trayanova, and Simeon Levi. It was started at the beginning of 2003, and for one year, a team of photographers, sociologists, and specialists in culture studies, has been occupied with visual research of ‘blind spots’ and their surrounding reality. These are themes and images from the trite way of life of about eight million people populating the territory- story lines that do not appear in media and drop out of the ‘artistic’ circle, nor are a subject of ethnographic, ethnic or historic research.
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MEETING POINT
Assen Emilov. Background
19 October 2004 - 12 November 2004
The “Background” series of photos represents a fiction of the distance to the “background”, whether this distance is infinite or the background is a kind of a huge set-scene, which creates an illusion of infinity that people are “scared to death” to experience.
The perception of the background as a border zone is fictitious; it is also a challenge to our senses, i.e. what our location is and what the space dimensions that we inhabit and perceive are, or the so called time-space.
By means of blurred shots, in sequences of retakes – each one nearer the object and independent images, the photographs in this series represent objects from the peripheral reality resembling cut-outs from the background.
This exhibition consist 57 c-prints under Plexiglas 106/76/20 mm and inject c-print on canvas 1500/2000 mm.
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JOAN LEVIEV
PICTURES IN PRIVATE
13 October 2004 - 7 November 2004
This exhibition is connected with the 70th anniversary of the great Bulgarian painter. It includes 82 drawings, watercolors and pastel, created from1977 to 1993. Among them, there is the cycle of 30 erotic ink drawings created in the period from 1981 to 1985 and are shown to the audience for the first time.
The drawing always had a special place in the Yoan Leviev’s rich and artistic course of life of versatile and dynamic creative activity. Looking for revelation, an intimate confession and at the same time- a correction of his personal achievements and a bridge to new plastic discoveries, the painter finds in painting a pure and independent way towards creative expression.
The ‘Drawings in Private’ exhibition is an attempt to come near, and with respect and compassion, to the intimate world of the creator, in the silence where the roots of his profuse and vivid art are.
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Nadezhda Oleg Lyahova
VANITAS
5 October 2004 - 15 October 2004
The Vanitas Exhibition presents a performance of the same name and a series of Digital still lives.
Nadezhda Oleg Lyahova: "Without any claim for authorship but rather for co-compilation, I combine in the series of digital still lives an image taken from the street (a picture of a casually passing-by woman in a dress with painted flowers) with computer-generated background. The image is entirely technically reproduced and unites digital reality with “ordinary” reality. It juxtaposes chance in life with the infinite regularity of numbers. Again there’s the fundamental problem of finitude – a human figure against the infiniteness of the computer-generated background.
Digital still lives, reproducing an assembly reality, express the infinite bearing of finitude, filled with hope and fear. The Vanitas Performance offers a momentary reality, filled with the meaningless dignity of life in itself and presents an opportunity for direct physical participation in this moment."
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STOYAN ILLIEV
PAINTING.SCULPTURE
24 September 2004 - 15 October 2004
Opening: 23 September (Thursday) 2004, 18 o’clock
The Sofia Art Gallery presents Stoyan Illiev on his 70th anniversary. The exposition has a retrospective nature and includes paintings and sculptures from 1965 to the beginning of the year 2004.
Stoyan Illiev belongs to that generation of Bulgarian authors who entered artistic life in the 60’s of the 20th century and is committed with significant changes in our art.
With his very first artistic works of monumental impact, he attracted the audience’s attention.
Since mid-60’s, he has been a participant in a variety of joint art exhibitions and has organized one-man shows and since 1970 he has participated in graphic art, illustration and book layout exhibitions in Bulgaria, Italy, France, Russia, Czechoslovakia.
His inclination towards the monumental and conditional in the shape and color, towards the structure, the relief, the volume, the plane, the power and vibrations of the tint leads him to the creation of ceramic tessellations, wall paintings, sgraffito or wooden sculpture.
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KONSTANTIN VULCHEV
TRANSPARENT
22 September 2004 - 10 October 2004
Opening: 21 September (Tuesday) 2004, 18 o’ clock
Transparency is the main quality of glass – the material that in the hands of Konstantin Vulchev can vary from a concrete object to its abstract reflection. The fifteen glass sculptures are ‘transparent’, but they also reflect the author’s discoveries – artistic metamorphoses of favorite styles or simply - objects. The carefully thought over and balanced cubist, expressive, art deco elements form part of the author’s provocations. His works emanate strength and softness, brilliance and color. In a feeling of feedback and perspective, the eye of the connoisseur can discover all this and feel the artist’s creative temperament and brilliant precision supported by solid technological knowledge.
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Lika Yanko. The sea and the fishermen, 1997
Lika Yanko. Landscape
Roumen Skorchev. Composition, 2004
Roumen Skorchev. Motherhood, 1969
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Donations 2002 - 2004
ðainting graphic art sculpture
16 July 2004 - 17 September 2004
The works in the Sofia City Art Gallery collection have entered it in various ways during its history of 75 years. For the last 15 years the only source for filling the fund have been donations by the authors themselves, by their inheritors, by separate individuals or collectors. Gradually, during the period 2001-2004 a collection of 264 donated works has been formed in the Sofia City Art Gallery. Of them: 142 canvas paintings, 108 graphic art works, and 13 sculptures.
Priceless in its contribution is the donation of Lika Yanko, who in her lifetime bequeathed 82 paintings to the Sofia City Art Gallery. Through them, the development of the style of this great Bulgarian artist, the change in artistic language, the directions of creative search could be traced.
Not long ago, Professor Roumen Skorchev donated more than 85 graphic art works to the gallery, thoroughly representing his creative work. Separate halls of the present exhibition shall be dedicated to this outstanding collection.
The creations of the exhibition comprise the period of the 20’s of the ÕÕ century to the beginning of the year 2004 and are created by 54 authors belonging to different generations.
List of donators:
“Ars milenium mmm” foundation
Assen Zahariev
Bisera Zankova
Boyan Radev
Valentin Kolev
Vassil Dokev
Vladimir Ivanov
Vula Kereklidou
Viara Georgieva
Georgi Boyadjiev
Georgi Koev
Daniela lyahova
Dimitar Vassilev
Dimitar Kotzev
Dimitar Yaranov
Dîchka Naydenova
Edmond Demirdjian
Emilia Panayotova
Emilia Staicheva
Encho Pironkov
Iva Yaranova
Ivaylo Mirchev
Ivan b. Ivanov
Yordan Paroushev
Katia Georgieva Ilieva
Kina Gosheva
Kiro Mavrov
Lika Yanko
Lili Nikolova
Liuben Kostov
Liubomir Savinov
Magda Abazova
Margarita Radeva
Marin Marinov
Martin Kalistrov
Martin Krastev
Milko Pavlov
Nadezhda Oleg Lyahova
Nikolai Shivachev
Pavlin Kotzev
Panayot Kondov
Plamena Dimitrova-Racheva
Rumen Skorchev
Samuil Stoyanov
Spartak Dermendjiev
Stanislav Pamukchiev
Stoyan Domyschiev
Yavora Petrova
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MEETING POINT
Anton Terziev. Psychotherapy
15 June 2004 - 30 June 2004
Anton Terziev’s video installation “Psychotherapy” deals with the inertia of everyday life and the lack of free human will in a consumer society.
The title is a tease with the determined way of life, providing man by means of repetition of routine actions with an illusion of the adequacy of his existence, turning him into a puppet of the system.
The conformist character accepts the established rules of the game without trying to resist or change them in the name of a higher cause.
In this work Anton Terziev investigates the process of personality deconstruction in a similar type of society. The individual’s free will that has become stunted seems to be a direct consequence or regularity, and in any case it is the easiest form of survival.
At first glimpse Psychotherapy is a comic domestic story, concealing however a tragic existential problem. Anton uses allegorical but sharp language to describe the conflict or rather the horrific refusal of open conflict between the individual and the system. The videos are built up according to the black comedy principle, where nothing is what it seems.
Packaging plays an essential part in the installation. Boxes and labels appear as symbols of mass production, of consumer expendability, of multiplication, of consumer society, of dehumanization of art.
The motif of multiplication and serial circulation is implemented on artistic level by presenting the same genre scene in three versions, where the character at one time is the teller, next time is the personage and the third time is the watcher as well as by the incessant replaying of the story again and again. All of that directly corresponds with the feeling of a vicious circle, of the closed system, in which the character’s life is just a link in the chain.
Yana Kostova
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Svetlin Balezdrov
Margarita Doncheva
Jovko Dogandjiiski
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FOR A BETTER WORLD
The exhibition of students and teachers major Poser and Visual Communications at the National Academy of Arts
3 June 2004 - 18 June 2004
For a better world is an exhibition created on the initiative of the Human rights Service of the UN High Commissioner and the National Academy of Arts. It includes 43 posters of more than 20 participants – students and teachers inspired by the human rights topics. The authors use texts form the UN’s Universal Declaration of Human Rightsthat includes principal civil cultural, economic, political, and social rights and has become the milestone of contemporary human rights legislation.
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Ketty Iosiffova
Lilyana Dvoryanova
Maya Antova
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MEETING POINT
Biographies of the body
27 May 2004 - 22 June 2004
‘Biographies of the body’ is a cooperative project of three young female artists from Sofia which have united themselves around the issue of the corporeal, its presence or absence, the laying up of desires, fictions, meanings, limitations it has to bear. The project’s putting into effect is made through a multimedia action including three separate presentations of videos, prints and photo-installations.
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IVAN PENKOV
1897-1957
14 May 2004 - 27 June 2004
This is the first large-scale retrospective exhibition of the great Bulgarian artist Ivan Penkov in Sofia after 1958ã. His multiple creative interests found expression both in the area of applied and plastic art. The exposition presents for the first time his projects for carpets, theatre scenery and posters and wrought iron furniture and. It also offers the most comprehensive glimpse on his creative life – about 200 paintings, graphic art works, drawings, applied art works and also photocopies of tinted glass.
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Wasa Marjanov
1 m3 Visionen
5 May 2004 - 30 May 2004
Vaza Maryanov has created architectural sculptures, drawings and photographic collages for this exhibition. He made them especially for the Budapst, Beograd, and Sofia tour by looking for the connection of the capitals of three countries with three different language and culture dimensions with their situation and history.
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EMIL POPOV
6th of May - the Day of Bravery
personages-objects
5 May 2004 - 10 May 2004
The tradition as a shape– exhibition in the museum hall – this presentation of Emil Popov has untypical character. Only for three days, the last of which is highly respected by the Bulgarians (and official holiday for several years) 6 MAY – THE DAY OF BRAVERY - the Sofia Art Gallery will engage several persons-objects in an original dialogue between them: Agnus Dei, Newly born lambs, Horse, A Snake and a Child, drawing, barren soil from the village of Dren, photographs.
In the artist’s creative work, the topics of bravery and sacrifice and his understanding of the notion is the bravery for one to live outside extreme heroism.
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MEETING POINT
Ivan Kanchev. Tactile Ceramics
27 April 2004 - 20 May 2004
Art for the blind. This is the shortest description of the project, on which Ivan Kanchev has been working for seven years now and which may reasonably be defined as unique. There have not been such projects in Bulgaria and according to the artist’s research, his ceramics has no analogue in the world.
Ivan Kanchev started his work on the project as a second-year Ceramics student (1997) at the National Art Academy. He conducted profound research showing that hands are the blinds’ most important organs of perception. In order to experience pleasure from the contact with a certain shape, the latter has to evoke pleasant feelings and warmth as well as to call forth a sense of security and tranquility, to be firm – the blinds’ aesthetical criteria for the beautiful are determined by the contact with a smooth, full and firm form. The artist unites in his works the positions of both the sighted and the blind, thus striving for uniting and elimination of the boundaries of difference.
Svetla Petkova
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Luchezar Boyadjiev. Flower-fan, 2004
Itsko Maznev. Yin and Yan, 2004
Kiril Prashkov. Traces, 1997
Peter Livesidge, Performance, April 3, 2004
Performance
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MULTIPLICATION
A British Council touring exhibition of Artists’ Multiples
+ 11 artists from Bulgaria
1 April 2004 - 2 May 2004
Multiplication is a new touring exhibition of artist’s multiples initiated by the British Council’s Visual Arts Department. The works in this exhibition are united by their lack of uniqueness, usually regarded as a prerequisite in a work of art. Many are commissioned works produced by third parties, whilst others are by artists who work solely with the concept of the multiple. In either case the challenge to the artist is in finding ways of realising an idea that can be repeated time and again. Thus part of the creative challenge comes in researching new methods and sourcing new materials, leading to some unlikely collaborations between artist and fabricators.
The exhibition comprises 62 multiples by 46 artists. The works are displayed in plywood cases which slot together in a system designed especially for Multiplication by the artist Sarah Staton. Each work is identifiable by its catalogue number clearly stencilled throughout the exhibition display system and referenced here on this website.
The exhibition has been selected with the help of Jacqueline Jefferies from Camden Arts Centre, Sarah Staton and Sally Townsend of The Multiple Store. All the works in the exhibition have been drawn from the British Council Collection, and many were acquired specifically for this exhibition from Camden Arts Centre, and The Multiple Store, some work from the exhibition are still available for sale.
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MEETING POINT
Svetozara Alexandrova. Painting
1 April 2004 - 1 May 2004
The painter Svetozara Alexandrova realizes this project with her typical straightforwardness of the means of expression. The initial collision with this approach leads to a tense perception.
As a starting material for her works were used passport photos – one of the most standard identification documents, which the author turns into fine art. On one of these two big canvases a woman is painted who has involuntarily closed her eyes. This moment turns into a detail of a whole sequence of microscopic movements. Caught by the lens, it is the missing chain of information, which takes the document beyond validity. In another work a man is pictured in between the blinking of the eyes. Tangible are the signs of the advancing age on the faces of both of them, faces visibly unbeautiful and too specific.
The sixteen much smaller in terms of format works represent a multitude of faces of young men also made of standard passport pictures. In these series the standard was used as an instrument stressing the individuality. Each face stands out being different and unique. These bright young faces are present with almost an exorcist strength compared to the enormous disharmonic masks of the man and the woman and they make space for serenity between them.
Svetozara Alexandrova has the ability to stare in this layer in which the latent is transparent and to enforce the doubt in it by ripping it shown. She takes it out methodically through the framing through the purely suggestive image and shaping it with the strength of painting. Thus the suspicion on the internal life stands out summoned by the externally expressed.
Vela Mlechevska
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MEETING POINT
Evgeni Vassilev. Intuitive Evolution
23 March 2004 - 28 March 2004
The Intuitive Evolution installation presents the process of evolution and integration of people in buildings. The video shows representatives of two generations in their natural habitat through their manner of communication. The computer-generated animation offers a futuristic notion for the situation and human relationships in a daily round depending on technologies.
Evgeni Vassilev born in 1980 has been studying cinema and television at the Visual Arts department of New Bulgarian University. He has been working as a free-lancer; he is into design, graphic design, and video-montage. Member of the Interspace center of media arts.
Galina Dimitrova
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SPEECH AND IMAGE
10 March 2004 - 26 March 2004
The year of 2004 is connected with 800 years from the taking over of Constantinople by the army of the Fourth Crusade. The Ivan Duichev Centre of Slavic and Byzantine Research commemorated the event by the Speech and Image exhibition, with one more activity from the agreement concluded in 2003 with the Sofia City Art Gallery aiming to popularize art created in Bulgarian lands and on the Balkans (in 2003 engravings by Hristophor Jeraphovich were shown - a donation by His Holiness The Patriarch of Serbia Pavle, and also works by the contemporary Serbian graphic artist Velko Mihaylov).
Speech and Image includes more than 150 exponents, directly entered the Professor Ivan Duichev Centre of Slavic and Byzantine Research or through the Elena and Ivan Duichevi Foundation after the year 2000, and private persons. They have not been published yet in catalogues or other editions. This is valid for Pavel Panov’s private collection (registered as ¹ 1 of the ‘Stara Sofia’ Municipal enterprise, Sofia Museum of History) and Roumen Manov’s and Petar Hristov’s collections. There are only two panels dating back from 12th century, taken out of the cover of an old-print book, go out of chronological timing of the period between 15-20th century. The rest of the exponents comprise not only 19th but also 20th century.
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MEETING POINT
VESSCULPTURE
Vessel Tanev
4 March 2004 - 22 March 2004
Vessel has its clear, overall concept of the sculpture he creates. He works with high technology materials such as brass, phosphor bronze, stainless steel, textolite. His art uses the expression language of industrial production. He utilizes universal machine details and his works remind of industrial design products. The conceptual idea is leading in their creation. The fulfillment is fully based on the principles of mass circulation as per exact preliminary project. As absurd as it may be, their flavor is hidden exactly in this potential re-productivity of the works – an advantage provided by modern technologies.
The presented sculptures are easel works intended for the interior.
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Denio Chokanov. Doundukov boulevard, 1943
Vera Nedkova. Boyana - the church
Ivan Getzov. The church of St. Nedelya
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SOFIA - A HUNDRED FACES
3 March 2004 - 27 April 2004
The exhibition is dedicated to the 125th Anniversary of proclaiming Sofia the capital of Bulgaria and 75 years from the establishment of a municipal art collection that laid the foundations of the present Sofia Art Gallery.
The gallery’s rich painting collection treating the topic of Sofia includes more than 350 art works (one third of them is shown in the exhibition), purposefully collected for more than six decades. The landscapes and compositions offer us the opportunity to compare more than 100 artists from different generations, representatives of all stylistic trends in Bulgarian art during 20th century – the way they saw Sofia, their preferred urban topics, the city changes from swarming streets and squares to the quiet nooks and outskirts. One city with one-hundred faces.
The exhibition is accompanied by a bilingual catalogue, with colorful and black and white reproductions of all paintings treating the theme of Sofia from the gallery’s painting fund, and a reference about the artists – bearers of the awards of Sofia in the 40s of the 20th century until present time.
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ROTARY CLUB SOFIA IN IMAGES
18 February 2004 - 3 March 2004
The Rotary Club Sofia in Images Exhibition is part of the Cultural-historic Heritage club’s program. The club carries on with its traditional fruitful cooperation with the SAG though this exhibition. It is an original chord finale of the celebration of the 70th anniversary of the first Rotary club in our country, whose beginning was also connected with an artistic exhibition at the SCAG /The preserved messages of engineer Watson –British Rotarians in Sofia/.
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MEETING POINT
VIA PONTICA
Performance, installation, lecture
10 February 2004 - 1 March 2004
Via Pontica – the spring flight of the birds is a term which focuses the efforts of the authors in the direction of a sensual, time-bound natural art. Studying the field of the symbolic they rediscover the sign of the paleo-maze. Its complex structure represents a harmonious agreement of opposites, which build up a whole and at the same time something different. The ROAD provokes them, passing through, to start artistic attempts within the natural motion. It seems as if down to the most obvious way of moving of the bi-pedal creature – simple walking. Stimulating a process of personal studying, their art turns into a sign. The artist, in the act, literally turns into a carrier of a symbolic meaning, using mechanical inventions, which in various ways impede or determine the motion and create a hybrid walking form: a man + construction. In a maze, in spheres, with stilts, with unordinary “shoes” on the feet, feet fixed with concrete in a Russian weeble, the authors pass the distance from the impossibility to the attempt, in the search of the common way or the possible directions to go.
Using the natural environment, hidden or public places, with their specific expression they turn these into the artists’ playground.
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GEORGI PAVLOV - PAVLETO
1913 - 1995
5 February 2004 - 28 February 2004
The creative work of Georgi Pavlov-Pavleto is frequently said to imply feelings of lyricism and immediacy. His style bears resemblance with that of the School of Paris, typical with its clear and pure colors and highlighted linearity. His landscapes, depicting views of the capital’s suburbs are among the best creations in the genre.
The exhibition features paintings from the Chiprovtzi Municipality, The Stara Zagora Art Gallery, Sliven, Pazardjik, Burgas, Kazanluk, Sofia Art Gallery and private collections.
The exhibition is organized on the initiative of Stara Zagora Art Gallery, with the support of the ‘Malki Bulgarski Hora’ National Organization, National Initiative Committee, the municipality of Chiprovtzi, the National Business Post.
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IVAN B. IVANOV
painting
1 February 2004 - 28 February 2004
The exhibition at the SAG presents one of the artist’s latest cycles that synthesizes his search in the direction of the abstract but creating associations imaging.
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MEETING POINT
Jury Staikov & Toma Vasharov
The ®evolution is a trademark of human Evolution
20 January 2004 - 27 January 2004
The project includes two short video films with duration of 3 and 6 minutes as two parts of one video-installation. The video with duration of 6 minutes is a background of the shorter movie, which bears the main concept.
More accurately, the concept is displayed as a game and undisguised irony through elementary and easily identifiable metaphors. The idea of the impossible revolution stays in the center.
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MEETING POINT
Samuil Stoyanov
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
18 December 2003 - 15 January 2004
Opposite or complementing, incompatible or logically interrelated are the paintings in this exhibition? The fact that on one canvas two formally anonymous images are situated does not always mean that they do not have a unified logic. “Vecherni novini” (“The Evening News”) contradicts one “accidentally caught frame” from the street traffic to another “accidentally caught frame” from the news of the Katar television. But maybe nothing is accidental. Under what logic “Rocko and Rock” combine the portrait of a Bulgarian boy and American actor? The narrative of the works is apparent, but there are many alternative possibilities for new “reading” and interpretations, which increase with each subsequent look. Maybe the laconic contradiction of formal values in a “Picture without a name” is far less definite.
Daniela Radeva
Curator
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GEORGI BOYADJIEV - BOYADJANA
Jubilee exhibition
paintings and plastic art
11 December 2003 - 25 January 2004
The exposition includes 69 paintings and 10 sculptures and is of retrospective nature - from 1960 to the first days of December 2003.
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