Exhibition Opening : “Intersection”

Sofia Gallery – Bulgarian Cultural Institute London has the pleasure to present three Bulgarian artists of the same generation – Galya Chuntova. Sylvia Dumanova and Mila Mussakova. Their joint exhibition is entitled “Intersection”.

Each artist presents part of her work and lovers of fine art will be able to discern the distinctive style of every one of them. Their different artistic ideas  find their individual expression through the prism of female sensitivity, and their perception of beauty, real or in the realms of the mind, is the element that brings them together in the Intersection of the gallery. They are united in their desire to share the positive energy that radiates from their works. The colours, images, and ideas that have found their expresion in the paintings by Silvia and Mila and in the captivating serigraphs by Galya, seek to regale us with precious moments of sheer delight.

 

Galya Chuntova

Galya is a member of the Union of Bulgarian Artists, Textile Section.

Galya is also active in publishing. She has her own column in IDEAL HOME (IDEALEN DOM), a magaizine for design and interior decoration. Not being able to limit herself to the written word, she also takes part in the styling of the separate issues.

It is almost impossible to track all of her works, be it paintings, works in serigraphy, or her more specialised work in the field of interior design and decoration. She has been able to ascertain that her works form part of private collections in Bulgaria, Belgium, Italy, Greece, and the United States.

SERIGRAPHY

Serigraphy, also known as screen printing, silkscreen, serigraphy, and serigraph printing?, became popular in the early twentieth century. As far as the etymology of the word is concerned, it consists of two parts – the Latin sericum, which means silk fabric, and the Greek verb graphein, to write.

The printing technique involves the use of a woven mesh to support an ink-blocking stencil to receive a desired image.

 Serigraphy is a combination of photographic interpretation and artistic skills. It helps produce unique and rich colours by enabling the repetition of images. ANDY WARHOL is generally considered to be the most important practitioner and populariser of this technique, which found its expression in the Pop Art movement of the late 1950’s.

  „Galya’s paintings are brimming with colours, they are warm, sunny, and full of optimism. In spite of the crises and upheavals that have become part of our daily lives, these paintings are charged with positive energy and they create pockets of coruscating light and sheer joy. They tell stories of familiar yet enigmatic aspects of life – music, dreaming, the sea, and the cat as symbol of the female.”

Each of these themes has the power to grace us with the gift of contemplation. Galya’s works are the ideal conduit.”-Idealen Dom

Sylvia Dumanova

Sylvia Dumanova was born on 17^th May 1966 in Sofia. She started drawing when she was 10 years old, in Liliana Kareva`s Art School. She won a competition for Kids art, and her painting took part in an international exhibition in Tokyo. She graduated 22 High School `G.S.Rakovski`, and a one-year photography school. She attended Art Classes with Prof. K.Boychev, Prof. J. Jelev and S.Aronova. In 1989 she graduated UACEG Sofia as Master of structural engineering. Sylvia`s other great passion –ceramics- led her to the studio of a famous Bulgarian applied artist Sonya Djongolska, where she mastered important skills and  experience. She started making her own ceramics jewelry, which have a lot of young fans. In 1995 she joined `Bestiarii` – a group of young artists, founded by Deya Simeonova. She has taken part in exhibitions in Bulgaria and abroad (1996- gallery `Melon`, 1997-gallery `Vitosha`, 1998- gallery `Draka` in Paris, 2003 – in Vienna). Art collectors in Bulgaria, Russia, France, Austria and Canada own her paintings. In 2011 she took part in the opening ceremony of gallery `Sofia`- the Bulgarian Institute of Culture in London. In 2012 she had a one-man exhibition in `Agora` gallery and took part in an eleven-year exhibition format 30×30 in `Astry` gallery in Sofia.

Mila Moussakova

Mila grew up in Sofia in a family of artists. With architects parents, an artist grandmother and a sculptor grandfather she was introduced drawing, sculpture and painting from a very young age.

She tried different things before finding her artistic style: illustrations, stage design, tempera sculpture, drawing, painting etc… Her long collaboration with the Association of Bulgarian Artists has given her great expertise in the field of Orthodox iconography.

Her first trips to Provence, to visit her children, gave her the desire to translate the impressions gained from her journeys to rediscover oil paintings, which allows her more freedom. In her paintings, Mila Moussakova, looks for harmony between form and space, colour and light, movement and human presence… The natural lightness of oil painting stimulates within her freedom of expression and moods, as the artist say:

“I try to avoid precise forms in order to suggest the difference and interaction between static and moving objects. Many of my subjects are inspired by nature’s perfection. I admire its serenity as well as it wealth of colours and forms”

Today she lives and works in Paris where she finds her inspiration in the dynamic atmosphere of the city.

Jean-Pierre Lorriaux

 

19:00 Gallery Sofia

The exhibition will be on display from 09.07.13 to 15.07