90 Years, 90 Paintings – An Exhibition by Rumen Gasharov
Friday, June 12 – Tuesday, July 2
Exhibition Hall 2019

The official opening of the exhibition will take place on 12 June at 6 p.m.
This exhibition is retrospective in nature, yet it deliberately avoids a conventional chronological approach. Rather than tracing a linear progression, it offers a reading of the artist’s work as a personal geography, where paintings from different decades encounter one another through association—much like the workings of memory itself. The exhibited works reveal a journey from deeply personal, almost autobiographical beginnings toward images that gradually free themselves from the constraints of the specific and the narrative. This visual route maps the world of Rumen Gasharov through five thematic spaces:
“Good Morning, Mr. Gashar”: The exhibition begins with memory. Autobiographical and nostalgic works connected to childhood and provincial life create an intimate visual archive of the artist’s earliest impressions.
Small World – Big Life: The focus shifts to scenes of everyday life: fairs, small shops, and figures drawn from the ordinary and the marginal. Here, the seemingly mundane acquires significance, revealing larger human stories.
Images of Femininity: In Rumen Gasharov’s paintings, the female figure emerges as both image and presence. She moves between the everyday and the idealized, between the erotic and the intimate.
The Face of the City: The city unfolds as a complex, rhythmic, and at times indifferent presence—both setting and character. Within it, individuality dissolves without disappearing, becoming part of a larger collective pulse.
The Language of Form: Gradually, the image sheds its narrative function and becomes structure and material. Form and experimentation come to the forefront as an autonomous artistic language.