Current exhibitions

STANIMIR ZHELEV

painting

23.01-07.02.2025

 

Today, the artist, who began his professional career as a graduate of Svetlin Rusev’s painting course at the Academy of Arts, offers a different interpretation of his painting predilections in thematic and stylistic terms, as if closer to the aesthetics of his first, many years ago, solo exhibition at the former Alexander Gallery. This reading, however, is far from a return to the beginnings of the artist’s path—rather, it is akin to a spiral that, at a higher level, rises above earlier, already proven achievements. The present exhibition makes connections between individual works, new and not so new, as well as between the artist’s own “rock passions.” Here the canvases become primal stone surfaces, mighty waterfalls, mystical spaces and mysterious figures. And the stories woven into them will be what the audience will have the opportunity to try to decipher….. see more