The first exhibition of the series “Contemporary Art at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences” was opened on 29 May at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. The exhibition is by Sasho Stoitzov and is entitled “Messy Beads”.
The exhibition was initiated and opened by the President of the General Assembly of BAS Prof. Vassil Kirov. “The Bulgarian Academy of Sciences has a serious collection of classical Bulgarian art. The time has come to look at contemporary Bulgarian art, to open our spaces in the Academy and its campuses,” Prof. Kirov said.
The curator of the exhibition Diana Draganova-Stier presented the artist and his works which are exhibited before the public for the first time. “The exhibition creates a kind of bridge between contemporary art, the building and the history that the Academy carries,” she said.
The exhibition can be viewed in the BAS-Administration Central Lobby until June 23.
According to the organizers, Sasho Stoitzov is one of the most remarkable and intriguing artists in contemporary Bulgarian art. With his rich creative biography, we can boldly use the expression “motor” in contemporary art. The artist reacted to the transition and changes in the far 1989, rethinking and analyzing the symbols of the recent past to arrive at the series of works begun in New York which abruptly changed the perspective of his search. Sasho Stoitzov focuses on and explores form, line and the characteristic layering of pure color emulsion that is saturated by small and subtle particles of emotion.
