site.btaExhibition of Dechko Uzunov’s Maidens and Brides Opens Friday

The exhibition "Dechko Uzunov. Image Motifs of Bulgarian Maidens and Brides" aims to promote the creative heritage of the great Bulgarian artist and is part of the "Heritage" programme of the art gallery "Dechko Uzunov", a branch of the Sofia City Art Gallery (SCAG).

The current exposition opens in the month when Dechko Uzunov was born, and presents an opportunity to see oil paintings and watercolours related to the theme of Bulgarian maidens and brides, from the collection of the institution, the SCAG said.

"In the second half of the 1960s, as well as in the 1970s, Dechko Uzunov was not the only Bulgarian artist to develop the pictorial motifs of the woman, the maiden, the bride, the Bulgarian woman. In various conceptual and thematic aspects (ethno-psychological type, motherhood, fertility, persistence of national traditions, etc.) similar motifs, freed from a narrative-fable beginning are found in the work of other Bulgarian painters," points out the curator of the exhibition, Prof. Chavdar Popov.

According to him, in his oil paintings, watercolours and pastels, Dechko Uzunov individually displays the best qualities of his painting mastery and fully demonstrates the peculiarities of his talent: "He directs his attention to certain archetypes characteristic of the "eternal" antinomy between native and foreign, which marked a significant part of the trends and directions in Bulgarian art after the Liberation,” he said.

The exhibition is accompanied by a bilingual leaflet, the SCAG added.