Opening: Friday, 27 June, 6 p. m.
The National Gallery marks the centenary of the birth of Vladimir Goev (1925–2013), an illustrious representative of the generation of Bulgarian painters that won recognition in the second half of the 20th century. His name is closely linked to the history of the National Art Gallery in Sofia, where he is remembered as one of its successful directors of undisputed merit in establishing the institution and developing its collections.
As a student of the great Dechko Uzunov, Goev absorbed from him his breadth of brushstroke and the search for a rich, complex facture of painting. For a short while, we see in his early canvases a close adherence to realistic thinking, but also an attempt to make his escape through a more modern, synthetic understanding of the form.
The landscapist Vladimir Goev of the 1970s and 1980s is defined as an artist of quiet contemplation, emphasising the silence in his canvases as the main personage, suggested through a reserved monochromaticity, but also by a profundity of expression.
The exhibition presents works owned by the National Gallery, the Sofia City Art Gallery, and the artist’s heirs.
Curators: Aneliya Nikolaeva and Ivan Milev
Media partner: BTA / Bulgarian News Agency.
