Exhibition Opening

Exhibition Opening
with a glass of wine & canapés

Author: Michail Lalov (still life)

The exhibition will be on display until Sunday 30 September.

19:00 – 21:00, Sofia Gallery

Michail Lalov – The Mythology of Love:

How many people can honestly say, hand on heart, that they always do what they want, what they believe in, steadfastly following their heart’s creative life and creed? How many are “Princes of the spirit”, able to even for a moment discard their comfortable “position in life”, rushing head first in a whole new direction, experimenting, conquering new spaces with technique, form and thought?

One of the few chosen is definitely the artist Michail Lalov.

Brightly colourful, decorative and theatrical, eccentric and gentle, expressive and romantic, he modeled his unique fusion of suggestions under the sign of the encompassing message – Everything is Love! The genuine pearls of life covered by the patina of everyday life, buried in the mud of petty, transient, silted by malice and indifference, faded from concern about daily bread, trampled on by greed and reckless compromises…

This is so in need today, when strong feelings are replaced by calculative passion, when love is the subject of sale, when total consumerism swiftly removes the old human feeling! This is what the artist purifies in his paintings, this is what he comes to resurrect.

Michail Lalov attacks the spaces where the spirit soars free, where sad divine creatures rule, inhabiting an infinite mythology of love. They are wonderful – conquered only by another, having forgotten the cares of the day, immersed in the spell of a dream world where any gesture is a caress, and words are a sort of magic for love.

Nikolay Valchinov (director, playwright, writer)

Biography:

Born on 14 July 1952 in Sofia.

Education:
1968-1972 – National School of Arts, Sofia
1974-1979 – National Academy of Arts, Sofia

Professional Achievements:
1979-1983 – Art designer at the Drama Theatre – Montana
1984-1987 – Stylist for theatres in Pleven, Dobrich, Razdrad, Lovech and Gabrovo
1991 – Member of the Union of Bulgarian Artists

Michail Lalov has taken part in over 28 large exhibitions during the period of 1979 – 2000.

Exhibitions:
1983 – National Cultural Palace, Sofia
1985 – “Rakovski str.” 108 , Sofia
1991 – “Rakovski str.” 117 , Sofia
1992 – Dusseldorf, Germany
1992- „Despred”, Sofia
1993 – “Kati Gallery”, Sofia
1995 – Nicosia, Cyprus
1995-1996 – “Eterna”, Varna
1999- Ingolstadt, Germany
2000 – Ingolstadt, Germany
2000 – “Shipka str.” 6, Sofia
2001 – Paris, France
2002 – Munich, Germany
2003 – Paris, France
2004 to 2011 – Annual exhibitions in various galleries in Sofia, Plovdiv, Pazardzhik, Iambol, Veliko Turnovo, etc.

His paintings are part of the art collections of the National Art Gallery, Sofia City Gallery and private collections across the world.