Current exhibitions

ZAKHARI KAMENOV

TRIP TO THE SOUTH

painting

7-20 May 2025

THE JOURNEY SOUTH BY ZACHARI KAMENOV

There is nothing unusual in another exhibition of Zahari Kamenov in Arte Gallery.

He is as we know him.

He shows his recognisable painting style, in which a strange light blue (as if scratched from an ancient wall) prevails, and together with that, he abandons it, going in all possible directions, despising routine.

What kind of painting is this?

Wherever there is an image, it is barely hinted at. It takes an effort to recognise it. But there it appears, a face of memory or a distant journey to echoes of the painting of the ashed Pompeii (and the palindrome The Square of Sator) or a peeping piece of an ancient mask. To understand Zachary Kamenov’s painting, we need to look at his works of clay. There he is visibly in thrall to the Neolithic. Of a seeming carelessness in which a great tenderness is locked. And longing. To leave the visible.

To step into an enchanted world purified by fire.

Abstract painting alternates with ancient images emerging from the age-old mist, visions or glimpses of ancient memories.

The key is in the clay. It leads us to the eternal ineffability through which nothing remains hidden, neither our impermanence nor our divinity….. see more