Favourable magic

exhibition of paintings of Valentina Cherneva and Milen Marinov
28.03. - 17.04.2019

Favourable magic

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exhibition of paintings of Valentina Cherneva and Milen Marinov

28 March – 17 April 2019

Opening reception – Thursday, 28 March 2019, 6:30 PM

On March 28, 2019, at 18:30, Largo Art Gallery will open an exhibition of paintings by artists Valentina Cherneva and Milen Marinov. Largo Art Gallery has been presenting the artistic family in its various projects for 10 years. This is Valentina's third participation in an exhibition in the gallery. Milen had nearly a dozen participationsin LargoGallery, with his last solo exhibition in 2009. More recently, in January 2019 for the first time in "Largo" their daughter Denitzawas presentedin the annualexhibition-competition of the studentsfrom the National SchooIof Arts"Dobri Hristov", Varna.

The exhibition consists of fairy-tale surreal artworks that have gathered the whole charge and magic from the inner children within the artist’s souls. United in the title of the exhibition "Favorable Magic," the paintings tell us stories of sailors, many Venice masks and clear blue skies, in which white fluffy cloud-like sheep are floating, leading us to a world of fantasies and dreams.

"If we stop for a moment and look around, we will see everything that surrounds us, the world in which we live and compared to that, what I have portrayed in my work will seem quite ordinary and normal", Milen says. In his works he has illustrated the world, as he sees it through his own prism - through the prism of an artist, through that of a dreamer, a traveler and an adventurer ... but also through the prism of his male nature. In his previous exhibition at Largo Gallery – “Carnival”, Milen had brought a series of works devoted to the ill-suited themes related to our politics and European membership. Today, 10 years later, Milen criticizes through his paintings today’s evil topics. Challenged by the recent issue of sexual identity, it provokes viewers with a series of miniatures, playful-erotic and aesthetically challenging.

In Valentina's works, we will find the themes of the new beginning, of the spring and of the tender nature of the delicate flower of mankind - the woman. A hedge of roses, intertwined in a crown of colors, ending with thin fragile stems, curved in the shape of the bodies of Three Graces, will be found in the artwork "Feeling of a Woman". It tells us about the woman - beautiful, gentle and vulnerable. But she has not missed and hinted through the sharp thorns of the roses for the dual nature of the gentle sex - sharp, categorical and powerful. The Woman -Lover. The Woman - Mother. The Woman - Leader. And in the background we can see an empty wasteland and loneliness - a symbol of what the man is without the woman - a barren, empty, dry and endless desert.

But if we leave behind the more provocative and philosophical works of the two artists, in most of the paintings, the viewers will immerse themselves in a fantastic, childlike world. A world filled with fairies, knights, lovers, dancing on the water and other magical characters. If we look at the world from time to time with the eyes of a child, we will remember that it’s actually a nice place. Maybe this is the message that the two artists want to share with us.

The opening reception is on March 28, 2019, at 6:30 PM at Largo Art Gallery in Varna, 8, Han Krum Street. The exhibition runs until 17th of April. More photos and information can be found on the gallery's website at www.largogallery.com.

 

 

Nelly Valcheva, Director of Largo Art Gallery

poster of the exhibition / Largo Art Gallery

Poster of the exhibition

Butterfly hunt, Milen Marinov / Largo Art Gallery

Butterfly hunt

Milen Marinov

Take a wish, Valentina Cherneva / Largo Art Gallery

Take a wish

Valentina Cherneva

Romantic walk

Milen Marinov

The blue scarf (follow me)

Milen Marinov

Spring is coming

Valentina Cherneva

Spring

Valentina Cherneva

Flagman

Milen Marinov

Borrowed face (About masks and people

Milen Marinov

Feeling of a woman

Valentina Cherneva

A magician you do not expect

Milen Marinov

It's possible

Valentina Cherneva

Up and down

Milen Marinov

Letter

Milen Marinov

Touch

Milen Marinov

Silence

Milen Marinov

Expectation

Milen Marinov

Rest

Milen Marinov

Scream

Milen Marinov

Look me again

Milen Marinov

Full Moon

Milen Marinov

Two

Milen Marinov

Full Moon

Valentina Cherneva

Balance, silence, transformation

Milen Marinov


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