On February 22nd 2010, at the National Gallery for Foreign Art opened
the exhibition
NIKOLAY PANAYOTOV
MUTATIONS
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The theme of the ‘mutations’ is present in the work of Nikolay Panayotov in numerous series of semantic and plastic interpretations. The present exhibition, showing works created in the summer and autumn of 2009, focuses on the artist’s philosophy in this direction. “Mutation is a natural phenomenon of life, and in its tragic unpredictability I find a potential, similar also to the artistic impulse. Mutations occur in the most elementary livings cells as well as in the most extended human social groups. The Western Renaissance, which, according to me, never took hold in the East (and in our lands), had to impregnate itself through an unnatural, almost consumer-driven biological mutation. This resulted in a confused and crooked leap. Pop-art culture crept in through the back door, while the heads kept being squeezed and hopelessly crushed by an Asian iconomania. The consumer instinct has mutated in the icon-obsessed herd. The primitive slothful submission is masked by the fumes of a mythical spiritual trance.”
The exhibition was realized with the support of Renault Nissan Bulgaria (www.renault.bg).
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Nikolay Panayotov graduated in 1983 from the Art Academy in Sofia in wall-painting under Professor Mito Ganovski. He is often designated as a “Bulgarian-French” artist, since for some twenty years he has been living and working in Paris and Sofia. and in Stokite village near Sevlievo. There he founded in 2008 the artistic centre ‘The White School’ where he exhibits his works and plans to organize meetings with colleagues from the country and abroad. He is the author of more than 500 sq. m of wall paintings and mosaics in Bulgaria and France. He is also active as an easel painter, holding several one-man shows every year.
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The exhibition will be open until March 29th 2010.
