Exhibition "Nenko Balkanski (1907–1977). Banal Art"
Art Gallery - Kazanlak with a guest exhibition "Nenko Balkanski" (1907-1977). Banal Art" in the Kapana Gallery
The City Gallery of Fine Arts - Plovdiv sends the year 2021 with the opening of the last exhibition of the year "Nenko Balkanski (1907-1977). Banal Art" - guest exhibion by the Art Gallery - Kazanlak, whose director Plamen V. Petrov and curator Katya Hristova are curators of the project. They think:
"In its conception, the exhibition is a kind of retrospective of Nenko Balkanski, in which the banality of existence is embodied with unique artistic mastery. From the view of the village yard, where everything reminds of the author's past - childhood, poverty, games and tears of maturation and the first emotions of the heart, to the silence of still life and the unfolding newspaper "Literary Front", on which throughout its possible liveliness is spread out as if ritually a pile of salted fish, to turn over after the bland breath of dry air in cirrhosis.
The exhibition also includes a series of paintings by the artist, in which the genre interweaves interior, landscape and still life. Paintings full of triviality, devoid of any human presence - empty chairs, deserted streets, skies without birds. Not so empty are the portraits of Nenko Balkanski, and even more so his focus on the naked female body - but in them we find traces of the pattern of existence, relentlessly imprinted on all living things. And before us an ordinary world is revealed. But as Chavdar Mutafov writes - "this usually speaks all the dialects of the street, the coffee, the salons, it carries all the helpless cynicism of the human machine, naked and damaged behind every skull: things that are not even thought of and that are always around us, in us, inevitable and eternal as life and equal to the horror of its banality".
Nenko Balkanski reaches all this seemingly intuitively. He feels the pulse of his time like few others in our native context. He turns to the prosaic, to his own work, where things, "exposed in their obviousness, acquire the cruel need to be art". And more importantly - to remain so for us despite the ever-expanding distance of time, or just because of that. "
The exhibition's opening will be on December 17 from 17:00 to 19:00 h. It will last until January 23, 2022.
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