GRAY/PINK/SCALE 2 at the Art Gallery in Ruse
2023.12.11
15 December 2023 – 12 January 2024
Opening: 15 December 2023, 5:30 pm, Art Gallery – Ruse
39 Borisova Street, Ruse, Bulgaria
Curators: Dessislava Hristova and Suzana Nikolova
Twenty Bulgarian artists took part in the first edition of Grayscale (2015) with two works each created by using different printing techniques. The curatorial concept gave the artists total freedom for visual expression. The only mandatory conditions were related to the format of the sheet (50 x 70 cm, horizontal) and positioning between white and black in the infinity of the gray tone register. Grayscale has been exhibited in Croatia (Medžimuria Museum, Čakovec), Serbia (Cedomir Krstic Gallery, Pirot; Art 55 Gallery, Niš; International Art Studio Radovan Trnavac Mića, Valevo and Metodi Meta Petrov Gallery, Tsaribrod), Austria (Bulgarian Cultural Centre Hause Wittgenstein, Vienna) and Bulgaria (Art Center Bankya and Academia Gallery in Sofia).
The second edition preserves the number of participants and the 50 x 70 cm format requirement, only this time adding a purposeful provocation to the artists by including one more colour – PINK in its various shades. In this case, the colour is symbolic and has a multi-layered meaning. This seemingly cheerful "wink" is actually a call for humanity and harmony so much needed in today's world shaken by natural disasters, epidemics, and war. In GRAY/PINK/SCALE 2, all participants are teachers and doctoral students at the National Academy of Art in Sofia. The works are created either in the stone lithography or the algraphy (aluminum lithography) technique. This choice is not random as well; it is however the result of cooperation with teachers from the Academy of Arts in Banská Bystrica, Slovakia, who showed interest in exchanging experience with regards to this particular technique. The fact that lithography was the first graphic technique studied at the National Academy of Art in the years of its creation is also important. The exhibition was presented at the Art Academy in Banská Bystrica in October 2023.
GRAY/PINK/SCALE 2 participants
Valeri Vassilev, Vasil Kolev – Vasillo, Venelin Shurelov, Verzhinia Markarova, Genadi Gatev, Georgi Iankov, Dessislava Hristova, Dimo Kolibarov, Emanuela Kovach, Zoran Mishe, Ivan Kyuranov, Liliana Karadzhova, Mania Vaptsarova, Regina Dalkalacheva, Rossen Toshev, Pavel Lefterov, Svetozar Benchev, Svilen Stefanov, Stefan Gadzhovski, Teodor Liho
For this exhibition, we extend our gratitude to the Art Gallery – Ruse.