Mysteries
of the Balkans
works by three European Masters
Stoimen Stoilov, Diana Stoilova, & Margarita Voinova
Artists' Reception: Saturday, March 24, 2018 4:00 to 6:30
PM
Curated by: Johnes Ruta
Connecticut Hospice
100 Double Beach Rd
Branford, CT 06405
Directions
Exhibition: February 27 to April 12, 2018 10AM - 8PM daily
Stoimen Stoilov - "Woman and Bird"
etching 31" x 24"
Stoimen Stoilov - "Power"
etching 32" x 26 1/2"
STOIMEN
STOILOV was born in Varna, Bulgaria in 1944 and is a graduate
of the National Academy of Fine Arts in Sofia, Bulgaria. He
leads his visual articulations with a Surrealist nature, and
works in his studio in Vienna.
For Stoimen,
line is a justified dominating force, and his visions are
rich with symbolism and indigenous history. His poetic visions
encourage viewers to imagine mythic traditions and lore. He
spent time living among the Aborigines in Australia, one of
the many cultural influences in his work. His art has also
been influenced by the poetry of friends like Lyubomir Levchev
(b. 1935) Poet Laureate of Bulgaria, William Meredith (1919-2007)
Poet Laureate of the United States 1978-1980, and the poet
Richard Harteis (b.1946).
In 1991,
Stoimen Stoilov was awarded Gottfried Von Herder Prize by
The University of Vienna. His work resides in Museum of Graphic
Arts Albertine, Vienna; the National Museums of Art in Sofia,
Columbia, Germany, Norway, and Switzerland; the Pushkin Museum,
Moscow; the Bibliotheque Nationale de France, Paris; Yale
University; the NY Public Library, and the U.S. Library of
Congress, Washington. His most recent shows were a large 2015
retrospective, including two 8 foot wide murals at the Slater
Museum in Norwich, and exhibitions at UCONN Avery Point, Groton,
CT; New Haven, CT; and Westerly, RI.
Stoimen
Stoilov is a first-class engraver for in his recent work he
has attained a maturity of touch, an expressivity of line,
and a dynamism of the imaginaire which transcends not only
the frontiers of reality, but also those of forms. The work
of Stoilov is marked by a new vision which scrutinizes the
unequalled detail, the most obscure recesses of the body of
the being, of the animal, of nature and environment. The minutae
of details reveal, as under an X-ray, the articulations and
body language of all our living bodies. If at times human
beings and things appear in their skeletal elements, they
do not for that reason fail to acquire a lightness which makes
them float in space, a space overflowing the geometric forms
of a picture, a diptych or triptych, to let themselves go
freely in movement, in the conquest of new imaginary landscapes.
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Margarita
Voinova - "Dream Garden"
oil on board, 20" x 12"
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Margarita
Voinova - "Fairy Tale of Old"
oil on board, 20" x 12"
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MARGARITA
VOINOVA, younger sister of Stoimen Stoilov, was born in Varna,
Bulgaria, where she lives and works. Her hand woven tapestries
decorate many hotels, banks, restaurants and cultural clubs
in Bulgaria and abroad. Her paintings and watercolors are
in the possession of numerous galleries, museums, and private
collections in Germany, France, Norway, Italy, Finland, USA,
Australia and Lebanon. She finds in her works primary archaic
signs, created in a pristine naive world bound to the mythology
of Earth and Air. For the artist these signs, symbolizing
birds, fish and human beings embody the primary idea of the
Universe and the understanding among the formations of this
world. These symbols are tranquil, intense, simple, tangible
and understandable by all people. The artist finds these signs
in the traditions of the world civilizations and in her own
being. Her contact with the Australian aborigines and their
art has been a unique experience. The harmony of colour and
shape is striking, surprising, and after all, convincing:
through her works, the artist starts a journey back to ancient
civilizations, to a culture, shared by all people.
Diana Stoilova - "Fish"
oil on board, 18"h x 24"w
Diana Stoilova - "Window"
oil on board, 24"h x 18"h
DIANA STOILOVA,
daughter of Stoimen Stoilov, lives and works in Vienna, Austria.
She was among a small group of artists first shown at UCONN's
Alexey Von Schlippe Gallery at Avery Point in Groton, CT in
2000, when this exhibition was visited by the Vice President
of Bulgaria.
In 1994,
she studied at the Academy of the Beaux Arts in Sofia, Bulgaria,
where she attended a Master Class for Pressure Graphics. In
1997, she studied at the Applied Arts in Vienna. Works of
the artist are in the collections of the Graphics Museum Carpenter,
Bath Steben, Germany, the Dialogue Foundation, Pris, France,
the Griffis Art Center, New London, CT, and in other private
collections.
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Exhibition: February 27 to April 12, 2018
Hours: Visiting Hours Daily 10AM - 8 PM
Curated by: Johnes Ruta, independent curator & art theorist
203.668.6933, http://AzothGallery.com/
azothgallery@comcast.net
Katherine Blossom, Arts Director
Connecticut Hospice
