Vasilka Moneva 80 years old, painting 13.-25.03.2025

Vasilka Moneva 80 years old

painting

13.-25.03.2025

Quite spontaneously

Dear friends, colleagues, welcome to this exhibition announcing that I am turning eighty years old. This is not a a retrospective exhibition. I am just moving forward. After all, here you can feel my tendencies and searches in the last few years. I think this is the last exhibition I will do in Sofia. To my joy in my favourite gallery Arte. Thanks for showing something of what I paint here for years. Thank you, Geri. Thank you, Arte. Thanks also to the friends who shared my excitement.

Vasilka Moneva, March 2025

The exhibition at Arte Gallery includes her latest works, revealing to us a life of unending creative work, full of colour and harmony. In the gallery are the familiar interiors, still lifes and landscapes of Vasilka Moneva – her calling card among connoisseurs and art lovers.

A beautiful chair, an artistic table, curtains – all things that the artist is surrounded in her home with are recurring motifs in many of her paintings. The flowers, the fruit, the dishes are all carefully arranged. Everything in her paintings – composition, objects, details is well thought out and synchronized by the artist, enhancing the sense of personal experience, bringing us closer to her intimate world of femininity and orderliness.This is no coincidence – in 1963-1966 she studied arranging at the Technical School of Arts and Crafts in Sofia. And the theatrical gesture with which she arranges the pictorial space of draperies, screens and fans reminds us that she worked as a puppet-maker at the Ruse Puppet Theatre.

Yet apart from her love for the city of Ruse, where she lives, creates, thinks, dreams, unforgettable is Paris, where she studied; the sea – all places as real as they are challenging to the artist’s imagination. Observing, contemplating, exploring and transforming the world around her – this is what Vasilka Moneva is today, in the Arte Gallery.

Dr. Nadezhda Jakova, March 2025