Announcement of the City Gallery of Fine Arts - Plovdiv, published on March 19, 2021 on the Facebook page:
Dear art lovers,
Order № RD-01-173 / 18.03.2021 of the Minister of Health, among other restrictions, suspends "The holding of cultural and entertainment events (cinemas, theaters, stage events, concerts, museums, galleries, libraries, classes in dance, creative and musical arts, etc.), including outdoors (fairs, festivals, etc.).
In this regard, from March 22 (Monday) to March 31 (Wednesday) all permanent and temporary exhibitions of the City Gallery of Fine Arts will be closed for visits and no outsiders will be allowed. Only the Commission for Issuance of Certificates for Export of Works of Art will continue to work with citizens. It will carry out its activities in strict compliance with anti-epidemic measures.
Reception hours remain the same as before: Tuesday and Thursday from 10 h. to 12 h.
The place is also unchanged: Halls for temporary exhibitions on 15 Knyaz Alexander I Street.
Contact telephone number at the indicated hours: +359 32 62 42 21.

The already opened exhibitions in two of the buildings of the Gallery will be available for visits again from 1 April 2021, the term of their holding will be extended by the number of days for which they were closed to the public.
- "Without Heroes" by Sevdalina Kochevska and Petar Kochevski in the Exhibition Hall "2019" will last until 10 April 2021.
- [Un]reality - the 14th edition of ART POSITIVE in Kapana Gallery will last until April 18 April 2021."

Exhibition [Un]Reality

17 - 21 March and 01 - 18 April 2021 - new dates
Opening, March 17 – 17:00 pm-20:00 pm

Gallery Kapana
Plovdiv, str. “Rayko Aleksiev” №29

Working time:
Tuesday-Sunday from 10:30 am to 18:00 pm
Day off: Monday.

After a four-year break, the favorite project of Plovdiv residents returns with the exhibition - [Un]Reality.

Participants: Albena Mihailova, Vessela Statkova, Velina Htistova, Evgeni Mladenov, Evelyna Kokoranova, Emil Mirazchiev, Iva Vacheva, Ivelina Ivanova, Nadia Genova, Osman Yuseinov, Sevdalina Kochevska, Sonia Mitova, Stilianos Grigoriadis, Tihomir Todorov, Trendafila Trendafilova, Tsvetanka Bornisuzova, Tsvetelina Angelova, Harita Asumani, Yavor Kostadinov.

Exerting new force this year again confronts us with vital existential questions, affecting not only our physical survival, but also all our habits and ideas concerning our existence in the world itself. More and more our place of security, comfort and even entertainment is shifting from the real to the virtual. Is that the only opportunity for intimacy, presence and empathy? To what extent can the real become virtual and does this satisfy the inner human needs from the world? However, etymologically the word "virtual" comes from the Latin - virtualis, which can be translated as virtue, power, efficiency, and since the Middle Ages it has the meaning of something "like real", which has such an essence and effect, but is not really as such, because it does not have physical or ontological realization on its own. Thus, the virtual can also be described as a pure potentiality that sits in a dynamic position compared to the actual. Hence, philosophy considers thought as the first virtue to arise that transcends the physical and thus actualizes the field of the spiritual.
Precisely because art itself is a kind of virtuality, it conceptualizes a reality that goes beyond the essence of objectivity itself. On the other hand, there is the reflection on the current reality of humanity, in which the virtual is both the ultimate possibility of merging and in the same time the great abyss of distance. And that is so due to the very fact of its "unreality".
Text: Kalina Peycheva

The exhibition is realized with the support of the Ministry of Culture

The Art Positive is a project by Art Today Association, a member of Goethe-Institut’s international network of German cultural societies abroad.

Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/432277421192016/