To The Artworks

exhibition of paintings, graphics, sculpture, video art, installations and objects

14 June – 24 July 2024
Opening – Friday, 14 June 2024 | 18:00 
Art Gallery – Balchik | Otetz Paisiy str. 4

In the 35th edition of the festival Process - Space

From June 14, 2024, Largo Gallery will present the exhibition "(Impossible Cyclicity)" in the City Art Gallery in Balchik. The event is part of the accompanying program of the 35th edition of the Process - Space festival, whose motto this year is "3+5=∞/Permissible Future". For the first time, the program of the festival includes a visiting private gallery and we express our special thanks to the curator of the festival Hristina Bobokova and its artistic director Rada Yakova for their invitation to the Largo Gallery.

The exhibition includes four Plovdiv artists, iconic names from the Bulgarian visual scene - Vasil Stoev, Rumen Nechev, Rozina Makaveeva and Atanas Kolev, as well as the young Varna artists Petar Chinovski and Drago Dochev, who have been actively developing their artistic careers in the last few years.

The development of human relationships is an endless process in time. It undergoes its changes related to the changes in social attitudes, the influences of world cataclysms, the evolution of one social order and the decline of another, the rise of some ideas and the sinking of others into oblivion. The main characteristic of this process is precisely its infinity, and the second, perhaps, is its cyclicity. Because revolutionary ideas causing uncontrollably rapid changes in societies and the world order are still not an everyday phenomenon. Everyday life is precisely the quiet, constant, small and sometimes hardly noticeable, but infinite in time change. Step by step, idea after idea, the process of change undergoes its development, an apogee, then a decline, a reset, but immediately after that the upward line of change appears - in another place, through other people, through new ideas.
Thus, the "permissible future" is an abstract quantity filled with the content of actions in the present time, the meaning of which reflects on the processes in time. These actions are focused on change in the future, but are influenced by the problems accompanying the present. Trying to fit in with the main theme of the festival set by the curators, the Largo Gallery project focuses on the infinity of the process of change, its cyclicality and the process of continuity and upgrade manifested through the connections between generations.

That is why we have invited different generations of artists to the exhibition - four established artists, with a rich creative biography and serious artistic achievements in their careers, and two young authors, who will gain experience and inspiration from comparing themselves with their famous colleagues.

Vasil Stoev will present a large-format painting, Rumen Nechev will participate with graphics, Atanas Kolev will show a kinetic metal sculpture, and Rozina Makaveeva will present an installation of objects. Drago Dochev will show NFT video art, and Petar Chinovski will participate in the exhibition with installations of collaged prints and an installation with program code.

Nelly Valcheva, curator