THE "DIPLOMACY AND ART" EXHIBITION HAS BEEN AT THE PARLIAMENT IN TIRANA
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On February 26, 2024 the representative exhibition "Diplomacy and Art" will be opened in the building of the Albanian Parliament, within the framework of the official visit to the Republic of Albania of Mr. Rosen Zhelyazkov, Speaker of the National Assembly of the Republic of Bulgaria.
The exhibition "Diplomacy and Art" is realized by the team of the State Cultural Institute under the Minister of Foreign Affairs as part of the "Balkan Dialogues" program. 22 paintings have been selected from the rich Art Fund of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of well-established Bulgarian artists from the post-war period, who managed to preserve the achievements in the field of fine arts from previous generations of artists, adding their creative pursuits. This exhibition is a continuation of the original exhibition "Diplomacy and Art", dedicated to 140 years since the establishment of the Bulgarian Diplomatic Service, presented in a number of national and regional museums and galleries. Its success was also shared in national galleries and museums in: National Gallery - Skopje and Bulgarian Cultural and Information Center, North Macedonia, Cetine - National Museum, Montenegro, Sarajevo - National Museum of Literature and Theater Arts, Bosnia and Herzegovina, as well as in Bulgaria - Veliko Tarnovo, Blagoevgrad, Ruse, Kyustendil, Sofia.
Authors who worked in the 1940s and 1950s are represented - Konstantin Shtarkelov, Denyu Chokanov, Atanas Mihov, Zdravko Aleksandrov, Vasil Stoilov, followed by those who worked in the 1960s - Vladimir Manski, Vanya Decheva, Todor Dinov, Boris Nenov, Vladimir Goev. Picturesque canvases predominate, mainly landscapes. This can be explained by the specific function of the art fund – to create an aesthetic atmosphere in the official and official premises of the ministry and foreign missions. At the same time, following the development of artistic expression over the years, we will also discover the new trends of the 70s and 80s in the art of the next generations. They are related to the simplification of the artistic image, the construction of a national style with original plastic interpretations, new materiality, the emergence of associative painting, monochrome imagery, etc. Nayden Petkov, Andrey Lekarski, Georgi Bozhilov, Yordan Katsamunski, Svetlin Rusev are represented here, followed by Georgi Baev, Svilen Blazhev, Stoyan Tsanev, Veliko Marinchevsky, Ivan Milev.
A notable author included in the exhibition is the Bulgarian, living for decades in Milan, Altsek Mishev, who in 2021 donated his work to the Art Fund of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. His miniature on a board recreates his campaign "Swimming across the Atlantic" /1979 - 1982/, where Mishev crossed the Atlantic Ocean, swimming tens of kilometers a day in the pool of the ocean liner "Queen Elizabeth - 2". The exhibition is accompanied by a special bilingual catalogue "Diplomacy and Art II".
The project is implemented jointly between the Bulgarian Embassy in Tirana and the State Cultural Institute of the Minister of Foreign Affairs, with the media partnership of the Bulgarian Telegraph Agency.