Where dreams go

To The Artworks

a solo exhibition of paintings from Alexander Dimitrov

24 July– 13 August2019
Opening reception– Wednesday, July 24th 2019 , 6:30 PM

On July 24^th 2019, we will present with a fourth solo exhibition in Largo Art Galleryan exceptional and iconic author, the Plovdiv Masterof the brush and one of the ten winners of the Prize “Artist of the decade of Largo Art Gallery"- Alexander Dimitrov. The exhibition is called "Where dreams go" and it is specially prepared and carefully curated for its stay in Largo Art Gallery. With it the artist celebrates his 50^th  birthday. Because of this, the exhibit is conceived as a bridge over time. And this bridge is possible thanks to the return of six paintings Alexander drew over 20 years ago and exhibited in Germany. The cycle of these six paintings is called “Genesis” and it inspires the artist to create a kind of continuation with new paintings. The new series of paintings, meaningfully and aesthetically, is a continuation of those before, but with the new techniques and ideas that the author has developed over the past few years.

Visitors of the exhibition will see interesting comparisons and references to his old artworks. Although the paintings draw colors from the same palette, the way of expressing the artist is different. The themes and subjects that excite him are different. Contrary to popular belief that wisdom and philosophical reflections are a function of maturity, in Alexander’s “German” cycle from 21 years ago we will find an astonishingly mature, controlled and metaphorical artist. The paintings are like a window to an imaginary, but perhaps possible, world. As if he was a mute witness to the birth of the universe and to the creation of the miracle of the peace that surrounds us. It’s almost like in the paintings we can find the raging power of the earth bowels, captured by the powerful embrace of the water (Genesis 2 and Genesis 3), the burning element of the sandstorms that formed the face of the Earth (Genesis 1) or the cosmic energies, giving the Earth’s energies one last push (Genesis 4). Thus, in the works from two decades ago, we will find the passion and energy of an artist pouring his ideas and beliefs on the canvas, but breaking them through philosophical questions and dilemmas, wretched by the sages since the world is coming. Who are we? Where do we come from? Where are we going? Why are we here?

In the new painting cycle of 2019, which is a continuation of the previous one, of course, we will find another Alexander - more contemplative, more soft- spoken and poetic, more in-depth in detail. The ecumenical elements here are mastered, the focus is shifted not on the primal, the origin of the world, but the result on the product of its genesis. And so, we come to the favorite subject in the works of the artist - the Woman. The Saint, the Mother, the Beloved, the Beginning of all beginnings and, according to the author, the most important and meaningful result of genesis. In each of the paintings from 2019 we will find ourselves among the primordial chaos and strict order- a fragile, gentle female figure that captures all the elements, gives order and harmony to the world, and its beauty conveys the existence of the human race.

Alexander for his exhibition in Largo Art Gallery: “The exhibition "Where Dreams Go" is dedicated to the beautiful and so persistent vital realities. The Games in which the Self seeks unconditional freedom. The inner "promised land" and our common "promised land". Its connection is far beyond anything visible in the exhibition, including the paintings created in different years and circumstances, but mutually attracted and united in their essence. The paintings, created in 1998, are part of a solo exhibition which took place in the same year at the SUD Gallery in Magdeburg, Germany. In 2018, in another solo exhibition in Germany dedicated to the “Seeking Man” in the magnificent stone church of Celmitz, I showed a part of the “Genesis” cycle as well as new paintings created in 2018. There paintings from two different periods met for the first time. "

About the artist:

Alexander Dimitrov was born on 24 June 1969 in the town of Plovdiv. He graduated from the National Art Academy "Nikolay Pavlovich" in 1995 in the class of acad. Svetlin Rusev. He has fifteen solo exhibitions in Japan, Austria, Germany and Bulgaria, as well as participation in international forums in Belgrade, Frankfurt, Kanagawa and Istanbul. Alexander won Prize of "HARADA” GALLERY, Tokyo, Japan - "Ecological point" in 1995. He is an Artist of the Year of Gallery "BREEZE" - Burgas in 2007 and the Prize “Artist of the century of Largo Art Gallery” in 2018. His works are owned by private collectors in Bulgaria, USA, France, Germany, Japan, Russia and others. Alexander Dimitrov is a creator and founder of "White Zone" Gallery and "White Zone" Studio, where he was a curator of 26 exhibitions featuring both established and very young artists. Alexander has had three solo exhibitions at Largo Art Gallery (2011, 2013, 2015). Lives and works in Plovdiv, Bulgaria. 

Alexander is coming back in Varna’s Largo Art Gallery and brings us emotions, excitement and paintings, specially made for his solo exhibition in “Largo”. We will see you at the opening reception on July 24th, Wednesday, at 6:30 PM in Largo Art Gallery, Varna, 8th Han Krum str. and together, over a glass of wine, we will seek in his paintings “Where dreams go”. The exhibition runs until August 13th.

Nelly Valcheva, gallerist