DOBRY DOBREV, MILKO BOZHKOV and MIMI DOBREVA 3-20 December 2024

FOLLOWING THE LANDSCAPE

STEPS IN TIME – GENERATIONS

painting

PROF. DOBRY DOBREV

MILKO BOZHKOV

MIMI DOBREVA

3-20 December 2024

For the first time in nearly 30 years, paintings by prof. Dobry Dobrev are shown in an exhibition. Even in the anniversary celebration, in which students of prof. Dobrev marked 45 years since their graduation, there were no works by him. In the current exhibition, the invitation is also to two of his students – Milko Bozhkov and Mimi Dobreva.

In the context of the exhibition, the three artists are united by their exploratory approach to the genre of landscape, transcending the conventional understanding of contemplation of the surrounding world, moving from real views to completely imaginary places. The realistic approach mixes with the abstract, colours shining from earthy ochre tones to phosphorescent blue-greens, the narrative shifting from social-mythological to abstract.

Dobry Dobrev’s “Return from rose picking,” “Expulsion from Paradise”, Milko Bozhkov’s “Morning Star”, “January Night” and Mimi Dobreva’s “On an August Day” reveal to the viewer’s gaze an imaginary world that was once a reality – places visited and experienced by the artist, a time they captured and messages that are presented to us with ease, virtuosity and professionalism.

Dr. Nadezhda Jakova, November 2024