"The Enchanted Soul" of the world-famous artist Martin Dzachkov takes over Plovdiv.

The "Enchanted Soul" exhibition can be seen from August 8 to 31 in front of the former BNB building on Raiko Daskalov Street, and then from September 19 to October 2 on the alley next to the Demeter fountain in Tsar Simeon's Garden.

From August 8 to 31, on "Raiko Daskalov" street, in front of the former BNB building, the world-famous Bulgarian artist Martin Dzachkov will exhibit twenty paintings in the heart of Plovdiv. The name of the exhibition is Enchanted Soul, and eight new portraits are presented to the public for the first time. The artist has been working in Paris for ten years in one of the most difficult genres of fine art - portraiture. He is a recognized master of poetic collage. Through the poetic names of his paintings and the symbolism in their matter, the artist paints the magic of the human soul.

Martin Dzachkov was born in Lovech, where he graduated from the language high school. There are only 4 such classes in the whole of France, for each of which 25,000 people apply every year. He is one of the 20 who are accepted. The first field of the Bulgarian artist is fashion design. In Montpellier, he created his brand - "Dzhachkov", which existed actively for 4 years, during which he built his clientele with a number of famous names. Martin works only with leather and creates unique clothes. The "Dzhachkov" brand reaches the defile in London and Paris, and among its customers is Leticia Holliday - the ex-wife of the late French rock and roll legend Johnny Holliday.

The first thing he painted in his life was a portrait of Peggy Guggenheim, which was exhibited in London. He made it with a specific technique and achieved success long before he began studying at the Paris Academy of Fine Arts. While studying, he sold his designer clothes to celebrities, created his own publishing house, and his portraits are now part of the collections of the biggest fine art collectors in Europe and America.

A work by the artist stands next to an original by Salvador Dali, and the US ambassador to Paris buys one of his first paintings. The genre "poetic collage" invents itself. From 2016 to the present, Dzachkov has made over 180 collages in the most difficult genre of fine art - that of the portrait. Some collages sometimes take more than 200 hours to create and complete, and each one contains between 500 and 4,000 pieces of paper imagery. And from the beginning of August to the end of October, Martin Dzachkov's paintings take over Plovdiv!

It's all here, collected in billions of pieces of paper images. The Bulgarian roses in which the self-portrait "There is a Martin" sinks, the Eiffel Tower and the magic of the night in the portrait "Black pepper", the flesh of the marble images of the Pietà and Picasso's drawings locked in the leather corset of the body of the portrait "Hanging in impossible mourning ", the beauty of immortality in the portrait "Turitopsis", scars, hunger and innocence in the painting "Hungry and Holy" and many others. If other works of art require time to be felt and understood, Martin Dzachkov's paintings do not give rest to the eye as soon as they fall into it. All the details in them keep in suspense and provoke the audience's perceptions, as if lines of poetry, in which every word is chosen with all its weight and precision, and when one reads the whole image, one discovers truth. Try to imagine a portrait of Dzhachkov without even one of the images that are present in it, which at first glance has no place there... It is impossible. Apart from pictorial virtuosity, the most impressive is the sense of matter, space, color and symbolism , which the artist unfolds with a swing in his paintings.
What game does the paper stroke maestro play?

Martin Dzachkov tells:

I want my paintings to breathe and the audience to be left breathless. In front of the white canvas I am at war, as if a living person is standing under the water of a river and I have to see him. But the water now glistens, then floods him deeper, and then I can see him clearly again. When I cannot see him physically, I see his soul best with my soul.
And then I feel like the paper is raining down on the canvas like water.
Drop by drop and image by image. In the process of work, I strive to reach a moment of such intensity that I can lose sight of all technicalities and submit my eyes to what I see with my soul.

About the exhibition in Plovdiv:
Plovdiv is my Paris in Bulgaria. I cannot describe my excitement that I have the chance to present my work to the Plovdiv audience. It is an honor for me that my paintings will be seen in the city of the magical Zlatyu Boyadzhiev. I have a painting called "Close to the air", it is the air in Plovdiv that I find the most delicious in Bulgaria, filled with a sweet and exciting charge of Bulgarianness. As soon as I arrive in Plovdiv, I feel special and inspired. Thank you to the Plovdiv municipality for the invitation!