LuDiNel Gallery

Dimitar Petrov /paintings exhibition/

From 18 February to 1 march 2002 in the gallery of the Capital Library passed paintings exhibition based on the writings of the famous Bulgarian author Yordan Raditchkov. With 24 oil canvases the painter Dimitar Petrov introduced his art. They were separated thematically in three series - "An attempt of flying in belly-button times", "As birds of God" and "A fly in the head". "In the last the thoughts hum in the head until they're shared. Then they fly away to provoke, confuse, obsess some other mind. In this way, just as a river gets more polluted and full of junks towards it's outfall, our life flows and gets filled with mire... It's never too late for a clarification!... That exactly means the series "As birds of God" and the exhibition title itself - "The River of Life". The paintings included in "An attempt of flying in belly-button times" are flights to a fictional world, full of kindness and love, a world far away from our earth claims. Despite the "belly-button times" (which just gets fatter and doesn't give birth to anything) - love, dreams and hopes belong to our other - the spiritual world. Aren't we like the characters of Raditchkov?... Won't love save the world?!..." - extraction from the brochure of the exhibition. The artworks are painted in 2001 and 2002 and realized with a technique which is typical for aquarells. They're all based on the novels and stories by Raditchkov. The writer himself supported the project and witnessed the opening together with his family. The exhibition was opened by prof. Svetlin Russev in the presence of artists, bearers of culture, sponsors, medias and citizens. The preparations of the exhibition took over two years. Apart from our own funds three firms sustained the project and got paintings in return. The advertising materials and space-design were done by ourselves. This way a dream came true.

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