BULGARIAN-SWISS EXHIBITION VISIBLE & INVISIBLE
Mission Gallery, Sofia: July 14 - August 12, 2022
Opening: July 14, 2022, 6 pm
"Visible & Invisible" is a joint exhibition that meets the creativity of the contemporary Bulgarian artist Miglena Savova Auclair, who has lived and developed successfully on the Geneva art scene for over 15 years, and ceramics artist Annick Berclaz from Geneva, Switzerland.
In her work, Annick Berclaz borrows plots from the vast world of the "invisible", the microcosm, rich in incredibly diverse forms, inspiring the artist, both building and affecting the "visible" world. The concept behind the works of Miglena Savova Auclair is the topic of women and their visibility. The author focuses on the portrait of modern women who leave a personality trail in society. Despite the thematic association, the two authors are different visual artists and creative individuals. The contrast between the creative pursuits and the means of expression in the works of each of them is strongly pronounced.
Miglena Savova Auclair was born in 1965 in Bulgaria. Since 2003 she has lived and worked in Geneva, Switzerland. In her work, she uses various media, such as painting, collage, photography, graphics and sculpture. With numerous solo and collective exhibitions in Germany, Bulgaria, France, Italy and Switzerland, her works are part of the collections of the Museum of Collage and Asseblaga in New Mexico, Museum Artcolle in France, Copeland Collection in New Zealand, as well as in a number of private collections in Europe and the United States of America. In 2009, Savova Auclair was awarded the Artcolle Award at the 16th Contemporary Collage Exhibition in Paris. She has a postgraduate degree from Ecole Supérieure des Beaux - Arts, Geneva and Master's Degree from the Department of Fine Arts at the University of Veliko Turnovo in Bulgaria.
The central part of the concept of Auclair also includes personal moments, a double look at two nationalities of women, Swiss and Bulgarians. Why? The author's answer is: “In my creative and personal life I am Bulgarian and Swiss, by nationality. I have chosen women - personalities from the two nationalities who inspire their achievements and public presence. In these series, unlike my previous male portraits, I put an exceptional focus on women, because I, as a woman, want to convey visually and express my attitude towards modern women - creating visibility of extremely interesting, valuable and successful women."
Annick Berclaz graduated from the Higher School of Visual Arts and the School of Applied Arts in Geneva, in the Department of Decorative Arts - Creating Objects. She is a member of the Visarte group in Geneva, ASDG, the Association of Sculptors in Geneva and Label Geneve, the Geneva Association of Crafts. Always in search, she puts a lot of creativity in her work, expressing a world in which microorganisms, pollen and other hydrozoans intertwine. Her ceramic objects, created with great meticulousness, concentrating energy and strength, seem to breathe in the rhythm of their own lives.
Annick Berclaz participates in the exhibition "Visible and Invisible" on the idea and invitation of Miglena Auclair. The genesis of her creative pursuits is expressed in the study of the infinitely small through the increase under the microscope of the floral and marine universe. The revelation of this microcosm opens for the artist an unsuspected aesthetic world and provokes the discoverer in it. The continuous creative pursuits of the artist Berclaz reflect her concern for contemporary ceramics, the raw materials and their constant transformations and their maximum expression through fire. Always seeking the personal touch, which is aimed at the fine border between the world of utilitarian ceramics and the world of sculpture.