The exhibition has been prepared on the occasion of the upcoming Bulgarian Presidency of the Council of the European Union. Interesting and unknown to the public portraits, landscapes and illustrations by 49 artists are presented, as well as paintings and graphic works by writers tempted by painting. The works are evidence of the personal and creative acquaintances between great names from the Bulgarian intellectual elite from the post-liberation era to the end of the 20th century and undoubtedly testify to their talented presence on the European creative scene.
The meetings between writers and artists, their joint work in the field of book publishing, official and personal gifts, friendly gestures are significant moments of their creative everyday life, but also of Bulgarian cultural life. They can be traced in paintings and graphics given to writers by Ivan Mrkvichka, Stoyan Sotirov, Konstantin Shtarkelov, etc.; portraits of writers by Petar Morozov, Aleksandar Bozhinov, Boris Georgiev, Mihail Krastev, Zlatyu Boyadzhiev, Vasil Stoilov, cartoons by Aleksandar Dobrinov, illustrations by Dechko Uzunov, Rumen Skorchev, Iliya Petrov, Simeon Venov, Haralampi Tachev, Vasil Zahariev, Vadim Lazarkevich and others. The exhibition includes little-known drawings by Konstantin Velichkov, Chudomir, Nikolay Raynov, Sirak Skitnik, Zmey Goryanin, Boris Shivachev, Dimitar Dimov, Andrey Germanov, in which the two talents of a writer and an artist are intertwined.
Opening: December 21, 2017, 6:00 p.m.
Venue: National Gallery of Art – Palace, Prince Alexander I Square
Closing: February 11, 2018
Source: National Gallery of Art
Photos: National Literary Museum
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