THE WINDOW - PAINTINGS AND GRAPHICS FROM THE COLLECTION OF SGHG
The Sofia Art Gallery has a comprehensive collection of paintings, sculptures and graphic art works collected for more than 70 years. It comprises about 7000 works by Bulgarian classics, modernists, and contemporary artists stored in its storage areas. The objective of each museum institution is to give the opportunity to spectators to get familiar with its rich funds. During the past years, the SAG has been organizing a number of thematic exhibitions, showing the diversity of its collection. More than 100 paintings and graphic art works are included in the exhibition, created at the beginning of the 20-th century until present.
The window theme has always provoked interest in artists and has been present in art for ages.The present exhibition offers the opportunity of tracing its development in Bulgarian art in the past one hundred years. The works are divided into several cycles: the window and the still-life, the window and the interior, the window and the studio, the window and the portrait, the window and the city, the window and the expectations.
The exhibition features works by classics in Bulgarian art: Nikola Mihaylov, Elisaveta Consulova-Vazova, Elena Karamihaylova, Bencho Obreshkov, David Peretz, Eliyezer Alsheh, Boris Eliseev, Ivan Nenov, Kiril Tzonev, Ekaterina Savova- Nenova, Boris Ivanov, Vera Lukova, Vera Nedkova and also works by contemporary artists: Svetlin Roussev, Yordan Katzamunski, Yordan Kissyov, Nikolay Aleksiev, Toma Vurbanov, Kalya Zographova, Mimi Vesselinova, Stephan Rodev, Tecla Aleksieva, Roumen Gasharov, Stephan Yanev, Marianna Marinova, Vihronii Popnedelev, Andrey Daniel and more.
The exhibition is accompanied by a catalogue in Bulgarian and English language with 78 colour reproductions.
Curator of the exhibition is Maria Vassileva.