Opening of exhibition by Chavdar Gyuzelev

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BCI London and “Rakursi” Gallery invite you to the opening of the exhibition “Grasping Shadows” by one of the greatest and world-famous Bulgarian artists, Chavdar Ghiuselev, on 04.05.2023,at 19:00, in the “Sofia” Gallery.

The opening of the exhibition will be attended by the Minister of Culture of the Republic of Bulgaria Mr. Nayden Todorov.

You will have the opportunity to enjoy again the taste of Bulgarian wine and canapé.

The exhibition will remain in the “Sofia” Gallery until May 26, 2023.

The artist, who acts between classical painting, graphics, scenography, photography, illustration and book layout, shows works, created in the last six years.

Chavdar Ghiuselev’s exhibitions are invitations to a passionate game with drawn figures and unwritten rules that you have to puzzle out yourself. In order to succeed, you have to reach the messages – on the border between the feeling and premonition, confidence and paradox, by which the artist fills his images.

There is no bottom, no top, no left, no right, from wherever you look at his paintings, everything will be alright, because there is no wrong way. In the part of outer space, geometric figures and human heads float, frozen in stable compositions, enough to awaken a fleeting hope for order and meaning, for law and trust. Until you feel that the artist, long entered in collusion with theater and myth, is joking; that for him God is a child playing with cubes, and we, who knows why, have decided to call this “our life”.

In the freely flying and floating heads in his graphics, decapitated worldly vanity triumphs at the expense of a time-slowing universal calm, and his picturesque canvases wisely contemplate landscapes emptied of the annoying human presence with a quiet and unobtrusive secret within them.

Chavdar is tolerant, subversive and ironic, like an electron – never in the same place in his art and life. He seems self-absorbed and even a little arrogant, but if you ask him what is the most important thing in the world, he will answer – to have someone to ask.”

The presentation is based on texts by Prof. Georgi Lozanov and Yavor Gardev.