Eva, the Eternal Woman / Eva, La Donna Eterna

To The Artworks

Collective exhibition of exlibris from the collections of the Bodio Lomnago Library, Italy, the Italian Exlibris Association and Art Forum Xotaris

05– 19 September 2018

Opening: September 5th 2018, 18:30 in Hall 2 of Largo Art Gallery

On Wednesday, 05.09.2018 at 18:30 in Hall 2 of Art Gallery Largo / Арт Галерия Ларго we will be opening an exhibition with Exlibris artworks from the collection of the Bodio Lomnago Library, Italy- organizer of the competition of the same name, the Italian Exlibris Association and Art Forum Xotaris. The exhibition is titled "EVA, LA DONNA ETERNA" and is the result of the joint work of Bodio Lombago, Italy (Comune di Bodio Lomnago), the Italian ExLibris Association (L'Associazione Italiana Ex Libris) and XOTARIS Art Forum, who are all involved in the organization of exhibitions, competitions and art events. 
The exhibition consists of nearly two hundred Exlibris artworks, dedicated to the Woman in Art. It is a traveling exhibit and its first performance was in Athens, Greece in March 2017. Then it traveled to Prague, Czech Republic in February 2018, then it stayed for two months in Veliko Tarnovo. Now it is here in Varna, Bulgaria. After the end of the exhibition at the Largo Gallery, the artworks will be on their way for their next show in Palermo, Sicily.

Prof. Hristo Kerin, Head of the Department of Graphics at the St. St. Cyril and Methodius University of Veliko Tarnovo and a member of the jury of the Third International ExLibris Competition Varna, spoke about this exhibition and said:

"Transformed into a symbol, encoded in layers of expression, the Woman is beloved, a mother, a daughter, a mistress, a seducer, a witch. She is a Muse, a Creator, a Goddess. From the First Eve to the Last, the woman is both a sinless and a sinfull creation, responsible for arousing the creative thought and creating countless interpretations... Imbued with deep emotion, further enhanced by the choice and expression of the particular graphic technique, the artworks are incarnations of the vision for Chimera - The Perfect Feminine Nature, united in the image of Eve - the first, the Pure and the Sinful. It is not a visual manifestation, it is not in the sensual curves of her breasts, it is not in the gentle hollows of her hips, nor in the hypnotic look. It is beyond the flesh, it lies in the essence of the female nature, the source of the love, the embrace, the kiss, the love, the trembling excitement, the calm, the flames ... "

The collection includes exlibris artworks from the competition of the Bodio Lomnago Library, whose 10th anniversary edition will take place in May 2019. Visitors will also be able to see artworks from the collections of the Italian ExLibris Association and Art Forum Xotaris, whose founder is the famous Greek collector and patron Christos Yanakos. 
A lot of Bulgarian artists that are masters of grapchics and exlibris are a part of the exhibition- Julian Jordanov, Hristo Kerin, Petar Lazarov, Petar Velikov, Veselin Damyanov - Ves, Radoslav Koltarsky, Eduard Penkov, Dimo Kolibarov, Denitsa Ivanova - Alexandrova, Desislav Gechev, Tanya Krasteva. Nearly all of them are participants if one or more of the editions of the International ExLibris Competition Varna.
In the exhibition we will see exlibrises and graphics of a small format by modern artists, established- names and young artists such as Marius Liugaila, Jochen Kublik, Natalia Cernecova, Vladimir Zuev, Yuri Jakovenko, but also by names, that are icons of the Italian engraving of more than 100 years ago, such as Benvenuto Disertori, Luigi Bompard, Constante Costantini.

This event is an accompanying program of the third edition of the International ExLibris Competition Varna 2018 and you can come to Art Gallery Largo to see it. It will stay until the 19th of September and it is admissions free!

International ExLibris Competition Varna is realized with the financial support of Varna Municipality through the Culture Fund. More information about the competition can be found on its website:
www.exlibris-competition-varna.org