National autumn exhibitions - Plovdiv 2022
National autumn exhibitions - Plovdiv 2022
From September 1 to 30
Old Plovdiv
The National Autumn Exhibitions in Plovdiv present nine talented artists with nine solo exhibitions in "Shared Space".
The Municipality of Plovdiv, the Municipal Institute "Ancient Plovdiv" and the Foundation "Culture and Modernity" invite Plovdiv residents and guests of the city to this year's edition of one of the most prestigious forums for contemporary Bulgarian fine art in Bulgaria, which takes place in Plovdiv. It is part of the program of Autumn Art Salon Plovdiv 2022, which always starts on September 1 and brings together numerous cultural events of all genres, turning the city under the hills into a lively and pulsating scene from September to November.
"Shared space" is the theme chosen by curator Prof. Dr. Galina Lardeva, which unites the creative pursuits of the authors participating in the National Autumn Exhibitions in Plovdiv this year. From September 1 to 30, 2022, in Balabanova House, Hindliyan House and Mexican Art House in Old Plovdiv, we will see the works of nine talented artists:
Atanas Tashev - painting (Balabanov house)
Angelariy Dimitrov - painting (Balabanov House)
Angela Terzieva - painting (Balabanov house, yard)
Darina Tsureva - graphics (Balabanov house)
Petar Chinovski - graphics, collage (House of Stepan Hindliyan)
Karina Popova - photography (House of Stepan Hindliyan)
Valentin Mitev - sculpture (House of Stepan Hindliyan)
Nikolina Dzhanovska – graphics (Mexican Art House)
Rusen Doikov - sculpture (Mexican Art House)
The opening is on September 1 at 6:00 p.m. in the courtyard of Balabanov House.
"Shared Space" is an attempt through the interaction and dialogue between places and artistic approaches to them to insist on their individual and shared identities. It is an experience worth undertaking despite the increasingly clear tendencies to erase the specific and the unique, despite the modern man's feeling that he inhabits not spaces but zones: airports - highways - amusement parks - playgrounds - malls - destinations. Because the path to the shared space goes through the awareness of one's own sensibility and sensitivity. Moreover, shared space is the territory on which individual sensibility places the world: between oneself and the other, between the known and the unknown.
Sharing implies engaging in the dialogical compatibility of multiple voices. And the voices - regardless of their physical diffuseness, instability, scatteredness, carry intact traces of identity. Today, the visual arts show a consistent interest in the traces of this multidirectional negotiation: they create images of no-one's spaces or mark the possible views of them, present the meeting places in sharing or contemplate the media grids through which places reach us, weave the communicative links between places into infrastructures , take elegiac or ironic positions in relation to their apparent (or apparent) impermanence.
Under the title "Shared Space", the current National Autumn Exhibitions bring together nine solo exhibitions of significant and recognizable artistic presences in Bulgarian contemporary art.
Angela Terzieva's paintings show how the segmentation of public space into subsets reflects on a person's vision and places it under the influence of a kind of buffer filters.
In the works of Angelarii Dimitrov, the very human gaze is subjected to transformation. They focus on individual sensitivity and especially its integration into the architecture of the personal structure.
Atanas Tashev's painting explores urban sign clusters: ghostly figures of people, a pack of dogs, piles of cars located in the claustrophobic spaces of the city sinking into permanent darkness.
Of essential importance in the sculptures of Valentin Mitev are the nodal places of the connections - with the suggestion of a special organic softness of the material, with the lack of internal tension in the joints and watersheds between the materials, with the "natural" lightness of each shape and volume.
In her works, Darina Tsureva uses iconographically recognizable configurations reminiscent of specific anatomical objects, but stylistically developed to the point of an abstract schematic image. In this case, the surface of the body, engraved on the fragility and transparency of the glass, becomes a common (shared) territory and a projection of the external and internal world.
Between the multiple sign projections and the withdrawal of the visible world in the photographs of Karina Popova, a specific intermediate space is created: pulsating in its associativeness and with the characteristic superimposition of alternations between recognizable silhouettes and their erasure, in the watercolor depth of the game between shades, halftones, with immersion in the inner world of the particular object.
The imagery and spatial suggestions in the graphic series "My Memory Boxes" by Nikolina Janovska come not so much from the titular insistence of "boxes" as from the tactile possibilities of paper in the printed medium, the scale of the graphic sheet, the color contrasts and, of course, from the idea of the portability of the material medium, which is shared between the fabric of the paper and the box of memory.
The spatial wholes in Petar Chinovski's works appear before the viewer's eyes together with their own plot, with the suggestion of the presence of infrastructural connections to other active image fields.
Rusen Doikov's sculpture, in its curious minimalist elegance, in its detailed attention to every single bend or curve of plane and flatness, is aimed at shaping different spaces: as an artistic gesture of sheltering the gaze, of staging the observer with his everyday, as well as living experience in a given shared space.
The national autumn exhibitions are one of the most prestigious forums for contemporary Bulgarian fine art and are a key event in the Cultural Calendar of Plovdiv, organized by the Municipality of Plovdiv. Artistic director and curator of the event is Prof. Dr. Galina Lardeva. It is also held with the support of Holding KCM 2000.
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