site.btaPainter Viktor Paunov Presents His Bestiary Exhibition
Painter Viktor Paunov presented about 230 illustrations and paintings from the 1980s to the present in his Bestiary exhibition on Tuesday night at the Regional Historical Museum of Sofia.
The exhibition was officially opened by Paunov, the head of the Regional Historical Museum of Sofia, Veneta Handzhiiska-Yankulova and the curator of the exhibition, Hristina Grozdanova.
“We have gathered here to honour one of the most loved Bulgarian illustrators, an exceptionally interesting artist. Each of us has a memory connected with his work. I want to thank Prof. Paunov for trusting us and inviting us to the endless world of his fantasy,” Handzhiiska-Yankulova said.
“The reason we have gathered here is the compiling of the illustration book Bestiary by Prof. Viktor Paunov. More than ten years ago when I wrote a school article about him, I was really excited when he invited me to work together with him and write an introduction to this book,” curator Grozdanova said.
“This is a book to view, its content is completely visual. My idea was to do a survey of my work in the past 40 years, without any chronological arrangement or importance, but to try through the characters in the books I’ve worked on to make a pun. To meet them in a new place, outside the context in which they were created through the years. At this exhibit I am an ordinary, normal painter, strongly tempted by the topic of animals, captivated by the possibility to draw and read books at the same time,” Paunov said.
The exhibition, presenting drawings and illustrations of animals from the world of Viktor Paunov, can be seen from April 15 to June 1.
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