NATIONAL GALLERY FOR FOREIGN ART
SLAVYANI FOUNDATION
On December 22nd 2009, at the National Art Gallery for Foreign Art in Sofia opened the
EXHIBITION
KIRIL HRISTOV
ON BOTH SIDES OF THE OCEAN
The exhibition presented works by Kiril Hristov, a Bulgarian artist who has been living and working away from his native country in recent years.
Born in 1952, Kiril Hristov graduated from the Art Academy in Sofia in graphic arts (1978). Since the early 1990s he lives and works in the United States, devoting part of his time to teaching. Already in his earliest manifestations in the late 1970s, he attracted the public’s attention as an artist of a distinctive individuality. The art critics’ interest was aroused by his rare talent for spontaneous drawing combined with an impressive visual culture. Focused on portrait, figure composition, still-life and landscape, he goes beyond the objectives of these classical genres in his search for a plastic interpretation refracted through the psychological aspects of constant self-scrutiny.
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Kiril Hristov’s exhibition entitled On Both Sides of the Ocean reveals the inner congruity and strength of a creative personality, his ability to investigate the surrounding world by the infinite resources of the searching and constructive line both in the mediums of printmaking and painting – ranging from the enigmatic inner states in the series of self-portraits to the decorative treatment of still lifes. The cubist approach to form born from a dialogue with modern aesthetics is refracted through the expressiveness of colour and the plastic interpretation of what has been personally experienced.
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The exhibition featured works by Hristov executed in America as well as pictures selected from the author’s studio in Sofia and the holdings of the National Art Gallery and Sofia City Art Gallery, the art galleries in Plovdiv and Dobrich and the Dimitar Dobrovich Gallery in Sliven.
