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CLASSICS OF MODERN BULGARIAN PAINTING – part II

Atanas Patsev, Atanas Yaranov, Genko Genkov, Dimitar Kazakov–Neron, Ivan “Rembrandt” Georgiev, Stefan Gatzev

27.01.-13.02.2026

The exhibition “CLASSICS OF MODERN BULGARIAN PAINTING” presents iconic, mythological names in Bulgarian art. Atanas Patsev, Atanas Yaranov, Genko Genkov, Dimitar Kazakov – Neron, Ivan “Rembrandt” Georgiev, Stefan Gatzev– today regarded as avant-garde, the pride and dignity of a cultural territory at a specific time – the 1970s and 1980s, when the relatively stagnant socio-cultural context gave rise to a reaction, a will and a longing for a new art. Art that craved artistic freedom, passionate revelation in the great energies of 20th-century world modernity. Times when the measure, the criterion for powerful art was its autonomous, extremely subjective, emotional, psychological, and spiritual energy. A time when an exalted experience of conditional reality, of purely plastic relationships, a struggle to achieve an inimitable artistic code, an autonomous plastic lexicon, and the creation of one’s own mythopoetic world arose.

Atanas Patsev, Atanas Yaranov, Genko Genkov, Dimitar Kazakov  Ivan “Rembrandt” Georgiev demonstrated the value of their creative freedom, their personal and spiritual breakthrough, at the cost of suffering social misfortune, ascetic seclusion, self-sacrifice, and a doomed devotion to the truth of art….. see more

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