Bulgarian-Swiss Exhibition Gathered Connoisseurs of Contemporary Art at the Mission Gallery
"Visible & Invisible" is a joint Bulgarian-Swiss exhibition with participants Miglena Savova-Auclair and Annick Berclaz from Geneva, Switzerland, which opened on July 14 at the Mission Gallery.
The project for this creative visit has been organized since last year, as the director of the State Institute for Culture under the Minister of Foreign Affairs Snezhana Joveva shared at the opening. Miglena Savova-Auclair took part in one of the important online initiatives of the institute #stayathomewithart and donated her work to enrich the Art Fund of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 2020. Today, she, together with another artist from Geneva Annick Berclaz, convey the visible, but also in search of the invisible, with bright impactful female images that can be found in the exhibition, the audience can recognize world artists, political leaders, researchers, women who contribute to society. The role of women in the socio-political, cultural, scientific research world, seen through faces and their power of influence, is interpreted by Miglena Auclair very precisely, and in her work, Anik Berkla shows plots from the vast world of the "invisible", the microcosm, rich with incredibly diverse forms, processes of development and impact on the "visible" world.
The Chargé d'affaires of the Swiss Embassy Rolf Ott, diplomats, guests and connoisseurs of contemporary art were also present at the opening.
Miglena Savova Auclair was born in 1965 in Bulgaria. Since 2003 she lives and works in Geneva, Switzerland. In her work she uses different media such as painting, collage, photography, graphics and sculpture. With numerous solo and group exhibitions in Germany, Bulgaria, France, Italy and Switzerland, her works are part of the collections of the Museum of Collage and Assemblage in New Mexico, Museum Artcolle in France, the 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 prize at the 16th Contemporary Collage Exhibition in Paris.
Annick Berclaz graduated from the Higher School of Visual Arts and the School of Applied Arts in Geneva, Department "Decorative Arts - Creation of Objects". She is a member of the Visarte Group in Geneva, of ASDG, the Association of Sculptors of Geneva, and of LABEL GENEVE, the Geneva Crafts Association. Always in search, she puts a lot of creativity into her work, expressing a world where microorganisms, pollen and other hydrozoa intertwine. Her ceramic objects, created with great meticulousness, concentrating energy and power, seem to breathe in the rhythm of their own life.
The exhibition can be viewed until August 12 every weekday at the Mission Gallery.