NEF ‘13 Centuries of Bulgaria’ presents donor Ivan Kanev’s exhibition, ‘Painting’

On 15 October 2024, the ‘13 Centuries of Bulgaria’ National Endowment Fund opened Ivan Kanev’s exhibition, ‘Painting’, at the Prof. Vasil Gerov Hall, featuring 19 paintings by the artist—also a Fund donor—produced throughout different periods of his life.

 

Art historian Prof. Chavdar Popov, DA, highly appreciating Kanev’s oeuvre, presented the exhibition, stating that the artist occupies a worthy place in contemporary Bulgarian art.

 

‘Ivan Kanev’s works demonstrate an organic unity of finely reduced gradation of tonalities, of delicate gradations of spatial planes. As a rule, the paintings represent a kind of amalgam of innermost poetry and engrossed contemplation, which is the very core of the visual image.’ added the long-time professor of 20th century art history at the National Academy of Arts in Sofia.

 

The exhibition runs until 31 October 2024.

 

 

Ivan Kanev

 

Ivan Kanev was born on 29 March 1935 in Nova Zagora. He graduated in Applied Graphics in 1963 from the National Art Academy in Sofia, under Prof. Alexander Poplilov. He works in the fields of painting and graphics. Since the mid-1960s, he has taken part in various General Art Exhibitions and held his own solo exhibitions. Between 1965 and 2009, he was included in all the General Art Exhibitions of the Union of Bulgarian Artists.

 

From 1963 to 1968, he worked as curator and head of the Dimitar Dobrovich Art Gallery in Sliven. From 1973, for twelve years, he served as an expert on art gallery issues in the Museums Directorate of the Committee of Culture. Between 1985 and 1993, he directed the Sofia City Art Gallery. Until 1998, he was Chief Expert at the Culture Directorate of Sofia Municipality.

 

The artist has held over 30 solo exhibitions in Bulgaria and has taken part in various general expositions and solo exhibitions in Hungary, Poland, Serbia, Syria, and Zimbabwe. His works are owned by the National Art Gallery, the Sofia City Art Gallery, the art galleries in Kazanlak, Pleven, Ruse, Silistra, Sliven, and Stara Zagora, as well as by private collectors in Bulgaria, France, Denmark and Switzerland.

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