curator: Stefan Stoyanov

Period: 19 October – 31 December 2020

The opening will take place on October 19, 2020 from 18:00 to 20:00.

The 86-year-old is simultaneously praised and sharply criticized a descendant of the Georgian prince Alexei Tsereteli has been provoking the village for decades his work gives rise to serious debates in the public space – from the subject on the aesthetic in art to sharp discussions of history and politics. One it is certain that Zurab Tsereteli has his exceptional place in world art space with its huge number of monumental works that can be seen in Russia, USA, England, Israel, Spain, Brazil, France, Thailand, Bulgaria, Georgia and leave no one unwelcome. His is the statue of Peter I in St Petersburg, “Good Conquers Evil” (in front of the UN building, New York, USA ,1990), the 175-ton “Tear of Sorrow” (Byron, USA, 2006) in memory of those who died in the attacks on September 11, 2001, the monument to N.V. Gogol (Rome, Italy, 2002) and hundreds of others.

In the great palette of Zurab Tsereteli’s work, look they also order ceramics, painting and sculpture. (www.zurabtsereteli.com). For the name of Zurab Tsereteli is not unknown to the Bulgarian public, since in 2008 His retrospective exhibition was shown in Plovdiv.

However, for the first time, residents of the capital will be able to touch the work of one of Russia’s most famous contemporary artists and see his works in the capital’s “Grafikart” gallery at 50 Zlatovrakh Street from October 19 to December 31, 2020.

The public will meet for the first time with his graphic sheets and drawings in which Zurab Tsereteli reveals his mastery of the line, creating images that remain inextricably linked to the human – to the everyday, p the intimate. Moreover, these are works that give an opportunity to reveal the monumental handwriting of the author and his inherent attitude towards the marks of the local, proper Georgian, to which he is connected by his own birth and growth as an artist.

Especially for Zurab Tsereteli’s exhibition in a gallery “Grafikart” will also arrive his grandson – the artist Vasily Tsereteli, who is and executive director of the Moscow Museum of Contemporary Art – MMoMA. (www.mmoma.ru).

The Georgian artist had the good fortune to communicate with colossi in the artistic life of Europe in the twentieth century such as Marc Chagall, Salvador Dali, Kenzo Tange and his creative path is dotted with enviable successes. Pablo Picasso shares more in the 1960s about him: “I see in Zurab Tsereteli great a painter, he has a wonderful sense of color, summarizes form,” and David Siqueiros claims that “he has entered the vast expanses of the art of the future, combining sculpture with painting. The work of Zurab Tsereteli came out of national frameworks and acquires international significance’.

Zurab Tsereteli is the chairman of the Russian Academy of Arts, UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador and Knight of the Order of the Hon the Legion of France.

The last exhibition of the famous Russian artist in Europe took place in early 2020 at London’s Saatchi Gallery, it was co-organized by Stefan Stoyanov, who is Zurab Tsereteli’s art dealer for Western Europe and America.

Gallery opening hours

Monday | 2-8 p.m.

Wednesday-Friday | 2-8 p.m.

Saturday-Sunday | 10 a.m.-4 p.m.

In December, the exhibition can only be visited after prior arrangement by calling 0894 54 34 34