Online exhibition and interview from the studio of the artist Mihail Lalov

Dear friends,

On April 29, 2021, from 6 pm GMT, we are pleased to present you an online exhibition and an exclusive interview from the artist’s studio:

Mihail Lalov

 In fact, how many can swear that they always do what they want, what they believe in, following unwaveringly their innermost creative and life credo? How many are the “princes of the spirit”, able to throw away at least for a moment the accumulated “comfortable” prestige, to rush in a completely new direction, to experiment, conquering new spaces with technique, form and thought?

Among the few selected is undoubtedly the artist Mihail Lalov.

 Brilliant colorist, decorative and theatrical, eccentric and gentle, expressive and romantic, he models his unique alloy of suggestions under the sign of the total message – Everything is love! The unadulterated pearls of life, covered by the patina of the workday, buried in the mire of the petty, the transient, suffocated by malice and indifference, stumbled by the care of the subsistence, trampled by greed and reckless compromises…

 We need them so much today, when great feelings are replaced by calculating passions, when love is the object of sale, when total consumerism lightly erases the most ancient human feeling! The artist purifies them in the paintings, he comes to resurrect them.

Mihail Lalov attacks the spaces where the spirit hovers freely, where sad divine creatures rule, inhabiting a boundless mythology of love. They are wonderful – captivated only by something else, forgetting the worries of the day, immersed in the enchantment of a longed-for candle, where the gesture is a caress, and the words – the magic of love.-

Nikolay Valchinov (director, playwright, writer)

 

Biography:

 He was born on July 14, 1952 in the city of Sofia.

 Education:

1968-1972 – The National Art School, Sofia

1974-1979 – National Academy of Arts, Sofia

 Professional development:

1979-1983 – is an artist-designer (set designer) of the Drama Theater-Montana

1984-1987 – is an artist-decorator of theaters in Pleven, Dobrich, Razgrad, Lovech and Gabrovo

In 1991 he was a member of the Union of Bulgarian Artists

 Mihail Lalov has participated in over 28 major exhibitions from 1979 to 2000.

 His paintings are in the possession of the National Art Gallery, the Sofia City Gallery, private collections in the country and abroad.

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The video can be viewed on the Youtube channel and the Facebook page of BCI London until 22:00 on Friday, April 30.

Enjoy watching!