From May 18, 2023 to June 18, 2023, the capital’s “Grafikart” gallery will show works by Rumen Nechev. The schedule that goes beyond the boundaries of the familiar and gives us new reasons for reflection.

An idea is the basis of the world, for something to be born, before that it was an idea, then it became a desire and finally it materialized. Ideas are uncertain and fickle, but in the search for them one stands out that gives the beginning of the happening. The expressive means for their realization are vast and even innovative, just to make this idea come true.

Rumen Nachev realized his ideas in the form of compositions. How is a schedule going to write an essay? What is an essay? It is an author’s work that tells a story. Essays can be of three types: Descriptive, narrative and essays – reasoning. In principle, the compositions are written in words and sentences, but with Rumen Nechev, the means of expression are graphic techniques.

His graphic works are stories in pictures. It immerses us in a world of collision between past and present, where we will see the use of techniques reminiscent of icon forging. Innovative in means of expression, the works that we will see in the exhibition “Selected Works” will be a sum of the three types of works that are defined in literature. He shares that: “The exhibition includes works located at two extreme points of the range in which I work. One point is a black and white graphic, as ascetic as possible in terms of technique and expression, here the idea is the most important part of the image. The print is as concise and clean as possible. The other extreme is graphics with intricate technique, multi-color printing, silver embossing and hand cast paper. Here, the sought-after graphic image is born with the painting as a richness of color and the silver relief acting almost like hardware. Between these two extremes I have sought the impact of ideas and images with different messages.’

He walks a path where he will describe and reflect on the juxtaposition of these two endpoints of the simple precise and clear statement, where the idea is the basis of the work, its birth and realization, and the multi-layered statement with complex technique and a lot of color, where the idea is padded with descriptive performance. These extremes are expressed in selected graphic compositions that will support the thesis presented by the author.